Re: Partitioning a RAID 1 / RAID 5 box

Hi Brandy

Why do you tell the OP to use the Default and then move Data instead of
telling the install where to put it in first place???

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Frank McCallister SBS MVP
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""Brandy Nee [MSFT]"" <v-branee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello Dave,
>
> Thank you for posting to the SBS Newsgroup.
>
> Thanks a lot for Fisheye's great experience sharing! Here, I would like to
> give some suggestion for this deployment. My reply is a bit long, so
> please
> take your time to read through it. Thanks a lot for your time and
> co-operation!
>
> ==================
>
> You can use two disks to create a RAID 1 (mirror) set (with 36GB
> capability), create two disk partitions on this RAID drive (Each with 15GB
> capability). Install the SBS 2003 on the system partition C: and then move
> the users shared folder to the other partition D:
>
> Create a RAID 5 or RAID 0+1 set for the other four disks (with 108GB
> capability) and then create two or three partitions on this RAID drive.
> Move the Exchange and SQL database to these partitions.
>
> Since the users shared folder, Exchange information store are installed in
> the SBS 2003 system partition by default, you need to manually move them
> to
> other disk partitions after the installation. Please refer to the
> following
> steps:
>
> For moving the Company Shared, User Shared, Client Programs Shared folders
> to a new location, please refer to the following KB articles for detail
> steps:
>
> 329640 How to Move Small Business Server 2000 Company and Users Shared
> Folders
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=329640
>
> 310539 How to Move the SBS 2000 Client Programs Folder to Another Location
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310539
>
> Since we enable quota management in the drive where the users shared
> folder
> is created during setup in SBS 2003 (Right-click c: drive, click
> ''properties''. In the disk properties dialog box, click ''Quota'' tab and
> you will see the quota settings in ''Quota Entries'' button), if you want
> to use quota management in the new drive, you will need to manually enable
> quota management there and manually recreate the quota entries that exist
> in the ''old'' drive where users shared folder resided.
>
> ======================
>
> The permission for the Users Shared Folder
>
> NTFS:
> Domain Admins Full Control
> Domain Users Special - Allow: Traverse Folder/Execute Files, List
> Folder/Read Data, Read Attributes, Read Extended Attributes, Create
> Folders/Append
> Data, Read Permissions
> System Full Control
> SBS Folder Operators Full Control
>
> Sharing:
> Domain Admins, Domain Users, SBS Folder Operators: Full Control
>
> Individual Users Folder.
> NTFS:
> Domain Admin Full Control (Inherited)
> System Full Control (Inherited)
> SBS Folder Operators Full Control (Inherited)
> Individual user Full Control (Not Inherited)
>
> For the Exchange information store, please refer to the following KB
> article:
>
> 821915 How to Move Exchange Databases and Logs in Exchange Server 2003
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=821915
>
> 270693 How to Change Database File (.edb and .stm) Locations in Exchange
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=270693
>
> We have a White Paper discussing moving data in SBS 2003, you can take a
> look at the following URL for reference:
>
> Moving Data Folders for Windows Small Business Server 2003
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=A1D0AF69-1287-4225-
> BD8B-59C89F44984B&displaylang=en
>
> For SQL and ISA, you can choose to store the database files and cache
> folder in another driver during the installation.
>
> =====================
>
> If you are using software RAID, please format the hard disk before install
> OS on it. There is a known issue that customers experience the mirror
> re-synchronized after reboot the computer. Please see following KB article
> for more information.
>
> 837640 RAW Dynamic disk mirrored volumes or RAW RAID-5 volumes regenerate
> after
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=837640
>
> Since you are going to install the SBS 2003 premium edition, I suggest
> that
> you follow the instructions in the premiuminstallstep.htm in the premium
> CD.
>
> If you have any further questions or concern, please feel free to let me
> know. I am looking forward to hearing from you!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Brandy Nee
>
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>>Subject: Partitioning a RAID 1 / RAID 5 box
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>>I am just in the process of installing my first server for my business. I
> am
>>looking for some recommendations on how to partition my drives. I've spent
>>some time reading previous posts in this group on partitioning, and it
> seems
>>the general consensus is that there is no one "right" answer and it's up
> the
>>individual and their own personal preferences.
>>
>>
>>
>>However, if the server is setup with a RAID 1 and RAID 5 array (as my
> server
>>is), would that effect how the server should be partitioned? I will be
> using
>>SBS2003 Premium with ISA. I will have light use of Exchange, and heavy use
>>of a SQL database. Should I have *only* the OS on the RAID 1 in one
>>partition, with no log files, no apps, etc, and then everything else on
> the
>>multi-partitioned RAID 5 array? My RAID 1 array is 2x36 GB and my RAID5 is
>>3x36 GB, with one global hot spare.
>>
>>
>>
>>Your feedback would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>>- Dave
>>
>>
>>
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