Our environment runs Exchange Enterprise 2003 on one server. I’d like to run Sunbelt’s Exchange Archiver to take the load of users with 10GB mailboxes off the Exchange server. They recommend running the archiver on a seperate server than Exchange. They also recommend SQL on another seperate server although it can be used with SQL Express.
Eventually however, I’d like to implement MOSS, which also requires SQL. There is also a current need for a few small inventory & contract management databases that will be accessed by several users over the network.
My primary question concerns storage requirements. As I understand Sunbelt, the archived data and attachments are stored on the archive server. Estimating the storage requirements for it is fairly straightforward. I’m unclear where MOSS and Sharepoint Server store their data.
Also, what about the data management databases, is it stored on the SQL server?
As it stands, I think I need two servers now, Archiver and SQL. The Sharepoint server we can get when we’re ready.
What hardware and storage requirements should I fullfill now to meet our archive need and that will later support Sharepoint?