Re: How big should the DB and Logs partitions be?

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From: Andrew Sword [MVP] (exchange.mvp_at_nos.optushome.com.au)
Date: 01/25/05


Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:59:11 +1100

This link has some useful infomation

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/guides/StoragePerformance/049faa66-321e-433f-8df8-083e52e7ae5e.mspx

"Fred Yarbrough" <fcyarbrough@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Ok4kKDzAFHA.2012@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> We are getting ready to migrate to E2K3 from E5.5 and our new E2K3 design
> will be to use DL380's with mirrored local drives for the OS and 2 SAN
> partitions. One SAN partition for the Transition Logs and one for the
> Database.
>
> Assuming that we will have 600 mailboxes on a server and each mailboxes
will
> be limited to 200MB, how big of a SAN partition should I reserve for the
> Transition Logs and Database?
>
> I am guestimating that a 75GB Transaction Log space should be sufficient.
>
> For the Database, I am thinking 600 mailboxes X 200MB = 120GB
> I will double that for future growth (240GB) and then add a little fluff
> (300GB)
>
> Does this sound reasonable? I had rather have a little too much space as
to
> not have enough.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Fred
>
>



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  • Re: How big should the DB and Logs partitions be?
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  • Re: How big should the DB and Logs partitions be?
    ... already set and it will just have to do unless there is a major performance ... One SAN partition for the Transition Logs and one for the ... >> Transition Logs and Database? ...
    (microsoft.public.exchange2000.misc)
  • Re: How big should the DB and Logs partitions be?
    ... already set and it will just have to do unless there is a major performance ... One SAN partition for the Transition Logs and one for the ... >> Transition Logs and Database? ...
    (microsoft.public.exchange.misc)
  • Re: How big should the DB and Logs partitions be?
    ... already set and it will just have to do unless there is a major performance ... One SAN partition for the Transition Logs and one for the ... >> Transition Logs and Database? ...
    (microsoft.public.exchange2000.general)