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SBS03 -> ?

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by demosthanese

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Currently we have a single sbs03 box handling everything in the office from DHCP to Exchange to Sharepoint. What's happeneing is as we are growing we are slowing down. At the moment we have about 5-7 contractors pulling images (.rars actually of about 30mB+ each) so the server is lagging horribly and its beginning to become a problem. So heres what im thinking:

Get a new server, just for sharepoint. Something with raid4 (or better) and lots of memory.

so my questions are
1) does this sound like a decent option?
2) will this work with sbs03 or is it a 1server environment?
3) anything you think i need to know before purchasing.

The actual how-tos i can get from a tutorial or something (im only the IT guy cause i know the most about computer. Not dedicated IT). Im just looking for some forethought to jumping in.

Thanks in advance.

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by bart777

You can freely add server to an SBS domain. You just can't have 2 SBS boxes in the same domain.

Now, for what you need, you obviously need the disk space and memory but the main thing to keep in mind is the network bandwidth. Make sure you have the fastest connection possible. I would be willing to be that your SBS is doing just fine with the load but the network pull is making the server APPEAR to be running slow.

by demosthanese

nah we are already running 20/20 fios. so impretty sure its the server. Right now its a single 5200 sata drive handling all the download requests on 2gigs mem and a CELERONduo!!!!!!!!!!!!! yeah i didnt pick this machine out, it was there before me. I know web hosting is really clock cycle intensive, but a celeron? come on.

So i cant get another sbs box which means server03 or 07. So is 07 going to be ok under sbs03 DCHP, admin etc.?

by bart777

It SHOULD be fine under an normal domain. SBS or normal should make no difference. You're dealing with a member server so you'll be good to go.

However.....
Based on the hardware you have there I might consider that new server replacing the SBS box as well. You could do a swing mmigration from server to server and keep the domain as it is. Then the old celeron box could go prop open a door somewhere. :)

by demosthanese

Now you just need to convince mrs.moneybags that its better to get the hardware now than to wait and make the contractors suffer through the lag.

But do you mean swing migration?

by bart777

http://www.sbsmigration.com/pages/96/

This is little article on what it does and how it needs to be done. It's not hard to do just time consuming. As long as you stick to the steps you can migrate servers with no problem. I've had to do it several times for customers who were upgrading hardware.

As for the money thing. Ask her how much it would cost if the server were to go down for 3-4 days while you buy new hardware and then recover the server OS and data.

Good luck

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