Re: Provision 1GB Home Drive to 10.000 Students

I would recommend that you go thru

1) the Chapter 3r and 4th on http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=55a30345-b54f-4806-9715-a953ceb19287&DisplayLang=en
2) http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/fileconsol.mspx


Yes, while NTFS can easily support 10 TB you dont want to create a volume of that size because of *chkdsk time* and running the risk of single point failure. The link above may not give exact answer on how you want to divide space but will give you good insight into available options. Also DFS consideration is a good thing because it will allow you to be more flexible as you experience usage pattern and changing requirements. For example you can start out with a few servers and if demands increase you could add in more servers/storage.


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"Travis Montgomery" <tmontgomery_removethis_@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uc92RO8$GHA.4328@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Greetings,

I just found out that we're going to be provisioning 1 GB Home Directories for each of our 10,000 Students. The actual physical disk space is not the issue. We have an iSCSI SAN with available space. My question is more in regards to best practices in terms volume and server provisioning. What is recommended in terms of volume size, I can't imagine I'd want a 10 TB volume. How should I divide them up and how many servers should I provision for this (Dell 2950's, 8G Ram, Dual 3G Xenon Processors).

Thanks!

Travis

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