Storage upgrade maildir suggestions?

[Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator]

Am 21.06.16 um 16:09 schrieb Marcus Rueckert:
> On 2016-06-21 07:17, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we start to run out of diskspace soon as our users start to keep mails
>> for longer time periods. That's fine, but space consuming.
>>
>> The maildirs are about 1 TB in total, and not long ago we enabled zlib
>> which is very nice.
>>
>> Now I have some thoughts about the next steps:
>>
>> a) Migrating the whole system to a new server with more storage?
>>
>> b) Install a virtual server for the mailsystem and an extra storage
>> system may be NFS?
>>
>> c) Stay with the current server and move all mails to a bigger NFS
>> storage.
>>
>> The last option c) would be the most easy one for me as I currently have
>> NFS space.
>>
>> Any thoughts? Hints regarding the NFS storage? Pros Cons?
>>
>> I have seen the dovecot wiki on NFS already and for now we will stay
>> with one single dovecot server.
>
> FC or iSCSI as storage.
>
> and always have a lvm layer between your HW and the FS. that way you
> can easily attach
> more disk to the stripe set and grow your storage that way.
>
>    darix
>
Hi Darix,

thanks for that feedback. Currently we are moving away in lot of areas
from iscsi as it is to mutch maintenance for us. But may be we go with a
small one for the mailsystem ...

    Regards . Götz

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