Re: Server sizing for E2K3?

From: Phillip (Phillip_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:04:49 -0700

Larry,
You would get by fine with your config but if you wanted to increase the I/O rate then mirror two drives for your OS and logs and put the data stores on the RAID % set.
For instance
2 X 18.2 in a mirrored config for the OS And Logs
3 X 72 in a RAID 5 config for the store.

p

"Larry Wahlers" wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:42:33 -0400, "Al Mulnick"
> <amulnick_No_SPAM@ncDOTrr.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >If you can provide more information about the way you intend to use the
> >machine, the client types, the client profiles, current issues you have with
> >e-mail, other programs that will also run on/against this server and any
> >other pertinent information, you may get a more helpful response.
>
> Thanks, Al! Basically, we have only about 100 users on our current
> Exchange 5.5 box. All it does is Exchange - nothing else. We do have
> Veritas Backup Exec on the machine, and it backs itself up to tape at
> night when nobody's on the system, but that's it.
>
> We figure initially we'll just migrate the 100 users to E2K3 on the
> new box, and try to get the other 400 to buy into the project and move
> them as well.
>
> We don't do public folders at all. And, I'd say our users are getting,
> on average, about 10 emails a day, and maybe sending as many. So, it's
> pretty light, on average. We have a 100 MB limit on mailbox size, with
> maybe 10 users over that, and most way under that, in storage space.
>
> We've not seen any problems whatsoever on our current box. I figured
> we'd start out with the three 72-GB disks in RAID-5, giving us about
> 144 GB to start. We'll add more disks later, fill up the 6 drive bays,
> as needed. Unless Exchange 2005 comes out before then!
>
> Thanks again. Any ideas you can provide are sure welcome.
>
>
>
> Larry Wahlers
> Concordia Technologies
> The International Center
> The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
> St. Louis, Missouri USA
>

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