Exchange 2010 DAG & EV System Mailboxes
Created: 31 Aug 2012 | Updated: 04 Sep 2012 | 5 comments
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Hi Experts,
I'm really confused about Exchange 2010 DAG & EV System Mailboxe requirements,
I have following Exchaneg 2010 DAG setup
A -> Active DB
P -> Passive DB
PRIMARY DATACENTER
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DAG1 - EXCH1-1 (A1), EXCH1-2 (P1), EXCH2-1 (A2), EXCH2-2 (P2)
DAG2 - EXCH3-1 (A3), EXCH3-2 (P3), EXCH4-1 (A4), EXCH4-2 (P4)
SECONDARY DATACENTER
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DAG1 - BEXCH1-1 (P1), BEXCH1-2 (P1), BEXCH2-1 (P2), BEXCH2-2 (P2)
DAG2 - BEXCH3-1 (P3), BEXCH3-2 (P3), BEXCH4-1 (P4), BEXCH4-2 (P4)
Please suggest how many archiving tasks we need and how many EV system mailbox we need, where they should be located. Do we need archiving tasks for Exchange servers that holds passive DBs? If yes do we need separate system mailbox?
Many Thanks
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You need to target the Exchange 2010 servers (NOT DAG), each task for each server.
System mailbox should be on each server that holds an active database.
You should target servers that hold passive databases too, but you can only do thhis when you have failed-over the active database(s) to the passive servers, then you you need to run Provisioning task manually or you can leave for the schedule run.
Also you should have the VSA mailbox on an exchange 2010 server. here's the whitepaper if you have not seen it before:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH144726
Just to be sure: you have 2 DAGs, 16 Exchange servers and 4 DB?
Correct.
Hope it answered to all of your questions.
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