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Will it work - My config - 2.Jun.2011 4:39:10 PM

EDEd

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Folks,
I am a college student and wanting to learn about Exchange 2010. I was going to install it on a Windows Server 2008 R2 running two cores and 3 gigs of RAM. I have a legal license in order to install and use Exchange 2010. I would only have two mailboxes for my personal domain. I know the minimum on the MS site is higher. Any thoughts as if it will work?

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RE: Will it work - My config - 2.Jun.2011 5:11:17 PM

mark@mvps.org

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Oh heck yes!
It's going to run fairly slowly so don't expect things to fly.
I have about 15 Hyper-V guests in my lab (quad core, 24GB) some have 1GB and some have 1.5GB RAM running merrily. Big thing is that I have a Windows 7 laptop that is on the domain and has SCVMM, Exchange Management Console and all of the NetApp lab stuff I use on it. That makes the admin tasks run whizzy.
You'll be fine making that box a DC and putting Exchange on it.

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RE: Will it work - My config - 3.Jun.2011 2:03:24 PM

EDEd

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Mark,
Thanks for the reply. I realized I have only two gig of ram assigned so I am going to bump it to three and see how that works. At two gigs I am at 91% RAM. If I read right Exchange 2010 does not use any of the MS SQL 2008. If that is true I am going to uninstall SQL 2008 and save hard drive and RAM space. I read that MS SQL will just gobble up RAM for no reason.

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RE: Will it work - My config - 5.Jun.2011 3:44:22 PM

fatclimber

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ha.. also want to know how to tune the memory usage for two muti-role exchange 2010 Sp1 with only 1.5G ram for each in a vmware envir.
there are one or two main exchange services cannot start auto after reboot or it will stop after a certain moment..