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Hi,
I'm just looking for some advice. My company (about 200 people, 2 locations
(only 15 people in the 2nd location), connected by VPN) has decided to bring
our Exchange Servers back in house. Here is what I'm thinking of doing, any
comments?

2 Dell 1855 blade servers with mirrored 73 GB drives for the system, Win2003
Ent, Exchange 2003 Ent.
EMC Clariion SAN, with 1 TB of space, 5 SATA drives.
2 GB Fibre Channel SAn cards in each of the servers

I was going to cluster the 2 Dell blade servers.

So I have a few questions:
1) Anything wrong with using blade servers for something like Exchange?
2) Anything wrong with using SATA drives in a SAN? The SAN is dual channel,
so it claims 300 MB/Sec
3) Is clustering the best way to provide high availability, or is there
another model I should look at?
4) We have Exchange 2000 licenses hanging around, is there an upgrade path?

I guess that's about it for now. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks!!

brian desmond [mvp]

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