dovecot - Dec 2013 - Design details of high performance dovecot cluster

Dear All,

Currently we are running a mail system for 10000 users each 2GB mailbox. At
present we have 5 mail servers where users mailboxes are distributed almost
uniformly. We have a HP SAN Storage (HP EVA 6400) where mailboxes are
stored. We partition the storage into five vg and each is mounted on the 5
servers. We are using postfix and dovecot.

The system was running fine but currently we  notices high IO load due to
IMAP connection. So we are planning to build a dovecot cluster.

Please suggest some design for the dovecot cluster keeping in mind to our
scenario. (If needed we can buy additional hardware like load balancer).

With Thanks and Regards
-- 
Jeherul Islam
India

Am 06.12.2013 11:28, schrieb JEHERUL:
> Dear All,
> 
> Currently we are running a mail system for 10000 users each 2GB mailbox. At
> present we have 5 mail servers where users mailboxes are distributed almost
> uniformly. 
looks enough

We have a HP SAN Storage (HP EVA 6400) where mailboxes
are
> stored. We partition the storage into five vg and each is mounted on the 5
> servers. We are using postfix and dovecot.
> 
> The system was running fine but currently we  notices high IO load due to
> IMAP connection. So we are planning to build a dovecot cluster.
ident the io problem on the storage, give more info about  mailbox
format etc

perhaps read

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/SharedDisk
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/NFS

> 
> Please suggest some design for the dovecot cluster keeping in mind to our
> scenario. (If needed we can buy additional hardware like load balancer).
you should use loadbalancer, you dont have to buy it , something like
keepalived etc is enough, however you should use

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Director with more servers

for an idea with loadbalancers look at

http://sys4.de/de/blog/2013/06/10/loadbalancing-mit-keepalived-postfix-dovecot/

( sorry german only )
> 
> With Thanks and Regards
> 
at last
you have to give more info like dovecot version , config
logfiles , general setup




Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer

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