mail server disk space

[VBmim]

Hello

My company uses microsoft exchange and outlook as a mailing system. The mail server has a total of 5 GB for more or less 65 mail-boxes... Is this enough? How many disk-space do you reserve for your mail-server?
The reason I ask this is because our mail-server crashed due to not enough space to start microsoft exchange. I have to admit that there's no limit on the amount of space a user can take with his mailbox...

thanx in advance!!

mim

 

[Grenage]

We can sympathise with that, we had a 10GB drive with the OS, Exchange and all installed on the one drive. We had a couple of Hundred megs left but exchange hated it and bombed out maybe once a week.

What we did was buy a nice 20GB and add it to the computer, then we ran the Exchange Wizard/Optimiser (which is in your programs menu) and moved the Store accross to the new drive to give it some breathing room.

Very easy using the wizard (hats off to MS for that one) and it's run perfectly ever since.

Hope you can solve your issue with similar ease.

 

[cpurom]

Of course you can limit how much space they take on your Exchange Server. Open Exchange Administrator, go to your server, then private information store's properties.

Set your default storage limits. Manage them, or they will manage you! If somebody has a greater need than the default storage, go to their individual mailbox and overide the default settings.

Bon chance!

 

[CSCKone]

We have about 350 users per server (5 total), and have a 9gb mirrored OS, a 18gb set of mirrored Transaction log disks and a 72gb set of mirrored information store disks.

Since our users hog a lot of space, half of that SHOULD be sufficient for a server our size. I would think 10gb would be fine for an Information store for 65 users.

As suggested above, if possible, add a larger disk and use the Exchange Optimizer to move the priv/pub.edb to the new disk.