Re: Exchange Hardware Question

Before you start - how many users? What's the usage? Disk I/O required?

Generally speaking, no... but if you want to optimize (without knowing more
details.. ), the rule of thumb **given the number of drives you have =6**:
OS: RAID1 mirror
Transaction Logs: RAID1 mirror
Store (in this situation): RAID1 mirror
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"-=gu=-" <gu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:D84C18AC-F2A9-405A-8549-765C9D0765AB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello,

We are a single site running Exchange 2003 on 2003 server.

I am not too far from running out of disk and would appreciate your
thoughts
on migrating to a different server. Currently, my priv1.edb and stm are
totaling close to 40 GB and I have only 15 GB Free. The existing server is
ancient.

The company is going to grow (almost double) in 2007.

I have a decent server waiting in the wings doing nothing which I can use.
It's a Dell PowerEdge 2850 that currently has a PERC raid contoller and
(3)
147 GB drives. There are an additional 3 empty bays, which I could also
fill
with 147 GB drives. Under a RAID5 configuration, I should get 700+ GB of
disk.

I know that the optimal configuration of Exchange would be to use separate
redundant (not partitioned) drives for: system \ pagefile \ logs and
exchange.

So my question is...
If I buy the 3 additional drives and put them all on a single (or even two
RAID5s), am I asking for trouble in terms of a disk I\O bottleneck?

Thank you all very much for your responses.
-=gu=-




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