Merging Exchange and File servers

[Bollard]

we are trying to consolidate our servers and we were thinking of merging our exchange server 2003 SP2 currently running on server 2003 to the new file server that we purchased a few months ago that is running server 2003 R2 SP2. We discussed security drawbacks of "putting all our eggs in one basket". Speed will not be an issue I have been monitoring our file server and it uses less than 5% of the CPU and less than 15% of the RAM on average. It is a Proliant dl380 G5 with a Xeon 2.33ghz and 3.25GB of RAM. The server has 600GB of storage and we currently use about 30%. I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts of some of the the drawbacks or positives of doing this?

Thanks!

 

[ntinlin]

Not really the best forum for this. You'd be better in the XC2003 or Server 2003 forums.

What's the driver for this? Running out of space on XC? Very old server? Lack of physical space for server?

You haven't really provided enough information to go on regarding your current and proposed XC setup.

Would need user numbers, XC database size, disk configuration of new server.

Apart from SBS which is optimised for this type of thing it's usually a bad idea to put XC on a server that does anything else. Performance from both sides can suffer.
And XC should never be on a DC.

Neill