<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>That is a good point David. I know that Mark S. and Matthew F. have been spending a good deal of time recently thoroughly testing the Centralized Storage feature, as they have been sharing progress updates on the weekly calls, but I do not think they have mentioned any metrics yet about the mailbox availability impact on end users, when moving large mailboxes with lots of meta data in the MariaDB database. If they see this message, perhaps one or both of them can chime in with their findings on this so far.<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__"><div><div><div><span style="color:rgb( 255 , 102 , 0 );font-weight:bold"><br>Randy Leiker (</span><span style="font-weight:bold"> <span style="color:rgb( 51 , 51 , 255 );background-color:rgb( 255 , 255 , 255 )">randy@skywaynetworks.com</span> <span style="color:rgb( 255 , 102 , 0 )">)</span></span><br><span style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 153 )">Skyway Networks, LLC</span><br><br></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"David Touitou" <david@network-studio.com><br><b>To: </b>"randy" <randy@skywaynetworks.com><br><b>Cc: </b>"users" <users@lists.zetalliance.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, April 14, 2021 3:37:41 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Users] February 2, 2021 Zeta Alliance Conference Call Summary<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">Hi,<br><br>> Using Centralized Storage In Zimbra<br><br>> Mark S. asked if anyone has implemented the Centralized Storage feature in<br>> Zimbra? This allows for storing mailboxes from multiple Zimbra mail stores<br>> within the same directory structure on an S3 storage volume (AWS S3, Ceph,<br>> etc.). Cine commented that Centralized Storage speeds up mailbox moves between<br>> Zimbra mailbox servers considerably. <br><br>As far as I've understood, it speeds up the "moving blobs" part.<br>So in the end the overall mailbox move is faster.<br><br>But the time the mailbox is unavailable to user (maintenance) because of moving SQL data is still as long as without Centralized Storage.<br>We had bad experience with 80GB+ mailboxes that were in maintenance for several days.<br><br>Can someone confirm this doesn't change with Centralized Storage?<br><br>David<br></div></div></body></html>