Hi- I work for a small business. We have approximately 100 users. Currently, we are running Exchange Server 2010 on a dedicated physical server. My boss wants me to upgrade to Exchange Server 2013, suggesting we use a distributed architecture on virtual
machines, placing different Exchange services on different VMs.
After thinking a bit about this, my opinion is that with such a relatively small deployment, we should just use another physical server for this install and keep everything on the same box.
My thoughts are that by distributing Exchange services, we create a scenario where there are multiple points of failure. And by using virtual machines, we double the potential for problems on every Hyper-V guest/host.
Our current DB is only 88GB.
So can someone please weigh in on this? Are there compelling reasons to design this using a distributed environment and NOT on a single box?
Thanx
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