Re: Disk partitioning question
- From: "John Vollman" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 17:54:13 -0500
R,
IIS websites and virtual directories work off of physical directories on the
disk. When you set up a new web site or virtual directory you have to tell
IIS where to find the files on the system. These locations can be on any
local drive on the server, not just the C drive.
You can change this in IIS by going into the Web site or vitural directory
properties, home directory tab. The path in the Local Path box tells IIS
where to find the websites files.
On my web server I have a directory on the data drive where I house al of my
websites, each one in its own subdirectory.
Works great.
You can even relocate the web sites log files off of the c drive.
John
"R" <12345@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uytP3pwgFHA.576@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Yes, data stores can be moved to another drive easily, but what about IIS
> and all it's associated garbage. My recollection is that installation
> gives
> no options to move IIS, leaving websites (data in my book since a lot of
> work went into creating it, although work copy should be elsewhere) on the
> C: drive. Is there an easy way to get IIS off of C:?
>
>
> "John Vollman" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:upZhRdwgFHA.3656@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> To continue with SuperGumby's brain dump:
>>
>> Creating a single hardware based RAID 5 using all disks is not the
>> highest
>> performing configuration for the OS, Exchange or SQL but is generally the
>> best tradeoff between performance, reliability and ease of management.
> This
>> single array will show up as Disk 0 in Windows Disk Manager. Creating a
> C:
>> drive partition of 20GB for the OS and apps and a data partion with the
> rest
>> of the drive will allow you to reformat and reinstall the OS and apps if
> the
>> @#$! hits the fan without messing with your data. All of the SBS
>> applications allow you to move their respective data stores to another
>> location. So you can install Exchange and SQL on the C drive but then
> move
>> the stores, logs and mail pickup directories to the data drive. This
>> does
>> take a lot of time/effort so you could just install Exchange and SQL onto
>> the data drive. You want to be carefull with leaving Exchange, ISA and
> SQL
>> data on the C drive as their log files will fill up your C drive if you
>> don't keep an eye on them.
>>
>> The nice thing about doing it this way is if you ever get tight on space
> you
>> can add drives to the RAID array to use for data. When you add a new
> drive
>> to the RAID, you do this throught the array management utility during
>> POST
>> or a software interface, the drive will show up in Disk Manager as
>> unpartitioned space. You can extend the last partion on Disk 0, your
>> data
>> partition, onto this new space. This is really easy if you convert your
>> Disk 0 to a dynamic volume.
>>
>> This by no means is an ideal configuration if you have a busy system.
>> And
>> in fact is contrary to everything you will read from Microsoft regarding
> the
>> deployment of Exchange and SQL. But for the average SBS it will do quite
>> nicely.
>>
>> And since simplicity is a halmark of the SBS product you should KISS.
>>
>>
>> John Vollman
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" <not@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:%23QruKWvgFHA.3540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > terminology is a kicker on this one, let me see if I can explain why.
>> > and keep in mind that it depends on the RAID controller.
>> >
>> > Take a number of drives and connect them to a RAID controller, let's be
>> > ridiculous and use 10 HDD's (herewith called 'spindles').
>> >
>> > One choice you could make would be to implement a single RAID Volume,
> all
>> > 10 spindles RAID5, let's say. At this point you do not have any Windows
>> > drives, partitions or volumes.
>> > The RAID Volume can then be divided into RAID Drives. These will appear
> as
>> > blank disks to windows.
>> > On some controllers a RAID Volume and RAID Drive are the same thing.
>> > (Particularly on cheap nasty IDE/SATA RAID, which should not be used on
>> > primary servers).
>> > Lets take our single RAID Volume and divide it into 6 RAID Drives, just
>> > for fun. :-)
>> >
>> > We can now use Windows to do stuff to the blank drives.
>> > On the first RAID Drive we're going to install the OS, then software
>> > mirror it to the 2nd RAID Drive. SO, we use Windows, after install, to
>> > make them 'dynamic' and create a single Windows software RAID 1 volume
>> > betwixt the two.
>> > We're also severely paranoid about our DATA so we're going to take the
>> > other four RAID Drives and create a Windows software RAID 5 set
>> > (volume)
>> > out of them.
>> > We don't actually need to use all the space on each RAID Drive for our
>> > windows volumes, so let's get even more tricky, let's throw some more
>> > numbers into the mix.
>> >
>> > Our 10 spindles are 36GB SCSI drives, so our hardware RAID5 Volume is
>> > 324GB, equally divided into 6 hardware RAID Drives, so each appears to
> the
>> > OS as a 54GB drive. We want no more than 20GB for our OS so
> Windows/drive0
>> > is divided into 20GB OS and rest, and is software mirrored to
>> > Windows/drive1. The DATA partition takes the remaining space from both
>> > these and available space on the other four Windows drives for a 6*34
>> > RAID5 set (usable 170GB) and we're left with 4*20GB for a Windows
> software
>> > RAID0 volume for our swap file and temp stuff (usable 80GB).
>> >
>> > Is this setup silly? In relation to SBS it's probably about as silly as
>> > you can get, but HECK, there's a lot of SBS installers out there doing
>> > stuff just as STUPID and charging people for it. (yes, /cynic_mode_on
>> > today). In an enterprise environment this could actually make sense,
>> > but
>> > would probably involve multiple hardware RAID Volumes.
>> >
>> > TIME PASSES, and, as expected, we run out of room. WELL, there's room
>> > on
>> > that SCSI bus for a couple more spindles, let's add four 36's.
>> >
>> > At first, nothing happens. The spindles appear as additional items to
> the
>> > RAID controller and that's IT. Windows is not aware of them.
>> > (depending on the controller) we could:
>> > a) create another hardware RAID Volume
>> > b) incorporate the spindles into the existing hardware RAID Volume
>> > let's incorporate!!!!
>> >
>> > SO, we do our tricky thing which takes anything from a few minutes to
> many
>> > days and suddenly our hardware RAID Volume is 468GB.
>> > More trickiness and we create additional hardware RAID Drives,
>> > suffering
>> > from a severe attack of sensibility we create two additional hardware
> RAID
>> > Drives of the same size as our existing set, 54GB. Does Windows have
>> > any
>> > more space??? NO, it has another couple of blank drives to play with.
>> > We
>> > then need to use some form of DOS/Windows drive manipluation
>> > (Partition/Server Magic comes to mind) to adjust our Windows
>> > partitions/volumes to use the additional space.
>> >
>> > Project your 3-5yr data growth as best you can.
>> > Implement a single hardware RAID5 volume of sufficient size to hold
>> > your
>> > 20GB OS + projected DATA.
>> > Add a hotspare spindle.
>> >
>> >
>> > "Nikki" <Nikki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> > news:8E5BF8A2-FFF4-40BB-B3D4-2A747C2FB661@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >> Hi !
>> >> I am installing a new SBS 03 server which will come with hardware
>> >> RAID5
>> >> disk
>> >> space. Shall I create partitions or volumes ? I was planning to create
> 3
>> >> areas - one for system, one for exchange, one for users data. Also, I
>> >> planned
>> >> not to use the whole space but to leave free space to extend
>> >> partitions/volumes - can I do that on the fly?- when I need to. Is
> that
>> >> a
>> >> good idea?
>> >> Thanks!!
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Nikki It Admin
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
.
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