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Exchange Server 2010

Hi,

We have a exchange server 2010 but have not added a lot more users than first installed and think its feeling the strain, what is the best way to increase resilience and also improve speed to the end users, do i just add another exchange server and move the users to the new datastore on the new server and split the load ? any help or guidance from previous will be great.

Thanks

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Will Szymkowski

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pcmghouse

Will's suggestions are the first to be implemented. Storage performance is the main area of complaints.
After that:
You can separate the LUNS (storage) for the transaction logs. Then change the path for the logs.
Have another DB on the same server on a different LUN, with transaction logs again on another LUN or hard disk.
It improves the performance. Then having another server and moving the second database to the second server will help you further.
Then you can configure a DAG (load balancing) to improve in other ways.

Lee W, MVP

What's the bottleneck? What research and analysis have you done to determine where your problem is? How many users are on the server? Is it physical or virtual? What's your disk subsystem? How much RAM? CPU? What's the network look like? How heavily is mail used? Are you using an Antivirus on the Exchange Server? Is it configured properly? What's your CPU usage look like? You really need to provide more information for a good answer to be offered.

Seth Simmons

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