Re: Size of transaction log for 1 Exchange 2003 Information store

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I have 40 users, 12GB DB. OS+Exchange binaries+page file+transaction logs are on 36GB SCSI 10000rpm mirrored drives, DB is on the other mirror. Machine is also file-server, files are on the same mirror as transaction logs, and I am running Exchange antivirus.
No one is complaining about performance, not even Exchange Best Practices Analyzer.
Users generate about 1.5GB of transactions per week.

IMO, you should be fine with 2 mirrors of 72GB drives, one hot-spare and 2GB of RAM.

I am hoping you did not really mean stripe set, but mirror set?

ShadwSrch wrote:
I am trying to spec out some drives.

I will have 2 in a striped set for the OS and Exchange application
files.
I will have 2 in a set for the transaction log files.
And, finally, 2 in a set for the database files.

We only have about 30 users at our organization, and are running
Exchange 2003 Standard on a Windows 2003 Enterprise server.

I was thinking that the transaction log drives did not need to be that
big, and that we could use some of the drives we had here.

I know that this will change based on backups, and on number of users
and emails, but maybe someone could give me some idea in terms of
percentage.

Any help would be great!


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