Working Real World System Configurations

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GroupWise System Information
Number of users in the system.
Number of GroupWise domains in the system.
Number of post offices per domain
Number of routing domains
Number of GroupWise post offices in the system.
Number of users per post office.
Number of messages per post office per day.
Disk space usage per post office
Average user and message database size (to help detect if a database grows rapidly)
Number of GroupWise Internet Agents (GWIA).
Purpose of each GWIA, i.e. SMTP inbound, SMTP outbound, etc.
Do you use a smart host?
Server Information
Server Make and Model
Number of CPUs and speed
Amount of memory
OS Version and Patches
File System Type
How server is connected to the disk subsystem (i.e. local, fiber, iSCSI, etc)
Number of NICs, Make and Model
Number of Fiber Cards, Make and Model
SAN information
Make and model of SAN
Configuration of Fiber Channel Switches
Configuration of LUNs
Disk Formatting
Cluster Information
Method of updating the GroupWise client.


Steve Moring smoring@novell.com

GroupWise System Information
Number of users in the system. 8000
Number of GroupWise domains in the system. 6
Number of post offices per domain 1
Number of routing domains 1
Number of GroupWise post offices in the system. 6
Number of users per post office. 4000
Number of messages per post office per day. 150000
Disk space usage per post office. 100GB
Average user and message database size (to help detect if a database grows rapidly) 20MB/200MB
Number of GroupWise Internet Agents (GWIA). 2
Purpose of each GWIA, i.e. SMTP inbound, SMTP outbound, etc. redundency
Do you use a smart host? yes
Server Information
Server Make and Model HP DL380G5
Number of CPUs and speed 4x2.33GHz
Amount of memory 8GB
OS Version and Patches OES1sp2
File System Type ReiserFS
How server is connected to the disk subsystem (i.e. local, fiber, iSCSI, etc) SAN
Number of NICs, Make and Model 2xBroadcom
Number of Fiber Cards, Make and Model 2xQL2300
SAN information
Make and model of SAN EMC Clarion, cx700 and cx380
Configuration of Fiber Channel Switches unknown
Configuration of LUNs Single LUNs
Disk Formatting EVMS/ReiserFS
Cluster Information
Two Node Clusters one resource per node.
Method of updating the GroupWise client.
ZenWorks
System is setup such that the only resources running in cluster are the post offices, everything else is virtualized. All gateways are redundent and sitting behind L4 switches. All systems are defined in DNS. All systems use ReiserFS for the file system. The cluster nodes are configured with EVMS/ReiserFS. Performance is EXCELLENT with 4000 defined users per post office with 1500 online during each shift in ONLINE mode. Network is gigabit ethernet between the agents and the end-routers/switches where the users are 100mb switched.
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