RE: Exchange connectivity issue question

"Log stalls are a common cause of Outlook access issues. Given the additional
overheard of the Windows system on the same set of spindles I would really
recommend moving the dbs and logs off to separate spindles"

Nuevo, by separate spindles, do you mean a new RAID controller with new
drivers or some how setting up the RAID set up now to see certain drives as
logical drive "C:" and certain drives as logical drive "M:"?



"At the minimum, add more disk spindles
- vol. 1 OS : RAID1
- vol. 2 SG1 - Store1
- vol. 3 SG1 - Logs1
- vol. 4 SG2 - Store1
- vol. 5 SG2 - Logs1

- Create another Storage Group with a single store, cap the first store at
200 users. Move additional mailboxes to SG2 Store1
- And more RAM as well - you will benefit with 4 Gigs and /3gb switch
- Make sure remote clients are using Outlook 2003 cached mode
- Do they have adequate available bandwidth or is the link saturated or
close?"



For "Storage Group", is that the mailbox store? Whats the diffrence between
the "store1" and the "logs1"?




"Gymim" wrote:

I would like some suggestions on what I should try to do with out Exchange
server to get a better response time in conjunction with our Outlook clients
we are using.

We are having a problem with our Outlook clients getting a pop up with a
“connecting to exchange server” style pop up and the end users having to wait
while the outlook clients try and talk to our Exchange server, even if
they’ve had their Outlook client open for a while.

I ran “Microsoft Exchange Server Performance Troubleshooter Analyzer” and
got a series of errors. Most of them are Disk Bottle neck errors. Below are
specs of what we are running.

Exchange 2000 on a 2000 server. Our clients are a hodge poge of office
2000, office XP, office 2k3 Outlook.

We have 2 sites: one is our “A” site that holds the exchange server and a
larger percentage of our staff and then the other is our “B” site that holds
a lesser amount of staff. Site “B” connects to site “A” via a T1 (the 2
sites are physically about 5 to 7 miles apart) and is part of the same domain
as site “A”.

We have 391 mailboxes and 1 database on our Exchange server. We have a RAID
5 setup with it partitioned out into 2 logical drives. One “C:” drive that
is 136GB and an “M:” drive that is 136 GB. The server has 1 gig of ram with
a gig nic installed.

About a year back we didn’t have the pop ups reading contacting exchange
server. Since then we have grown with more users and more activity on the
network in addition to more mailboxs.

The “Microsoft Exchange Server Performance Troubleshooter Analyzer” mentions
a Hard Disk bottle neck and occasionally the “Troubleshooter Analyzer”
references the server having less then 50 Mb of RAM. I assume it’s talking
about RAM set aside for the Exchange software because the RAM amount that the
“Troubleshooter Analyzer” shows differs each time I run the test, sometimes
it reads the RAM amount in hundreds, sometimes it reads about 16 Mb of RAM
but when I go directly into the Server, and do a MEM from the command line or
right click my computer and go to properties, it reads the full Gig of RAM.

For Hard Disk bottle neck alleviation, Microsoft suggests moving the
mailboxs, TEMP file, page file, from the drive containing the O.S. (which is
the “C:” drive) to another drive for I.O. access performance improvement.
Well since I’m using raid 5, moving it from one drive to another just moves
it logically and not physically so the same hard ware is still being
accessed. Microsoft also mentions if you’re using RAID 5 to upgrade to RAID
10.

I’m new to exchange but is upgrading to RAID 10 or buying a separate RAID
controller and having a different physical location for the Exchange data
really the only answer? Is there tweaking I’m missing? If anyone has any
suggestions on how I can improve performance, please let me know.

Thank you.

.

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