In R4/R5 and NT4, there were issues with having your servers dataset be greater than 180Gb. NT Page Pool would have issues and crash our servers as identified in IBM’s technote: 1093511========================
Although Microsoft says they have fixed the issue in 2000 sp2:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q280/7/90.ASP&NoWebContent=1
Lotus says “with SP2, the limit is increased, but the issue is not completely solved”
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So…we want to run a Notes R6 Windows 2000 environment with 700gb+ of data attached. Anyone else have first hand knowledge of this working, or issues?
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thanks for any comments.
Subject: R6, 2000 and Disk Storage
Yes, under certain circumstances the new SP2 limits of 400GB and faster page recycling still cannot cope. This seems especially prevalent in clustered environments where there are not only local users and processes opening databases but the cluster replicators from other servers.
You should have less trouble if your database distribution is many many small databases vs a few large databases.
The answer is, yes it can still be a problem.
Why do you need 700GB on one server ?
Subject: R6, 2000 and Disk Storage
sounds like you are dealing with software that is made by a company that is limiting their users on how useful the OS actually is in an entreprise environment.
we are running our mail servers on unix with that much storage with no issues.
Linux would be more than happy to run your configuration (redhat 7.x or 8.0)
Oh yeah, it would also decrease your total cost of ownership of a very flexible and powerful application / messaging server.