Re: SBS 2003 Installation Drives - Folders
- From: "SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" <not@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:35:27 +1100
I think your plan is crazy.
Should you move the application installation points you will reduce the
space required on the OS partition significantly. A 20GB partition has
enough space to accept the default program installation points. There is
also reason to practice caution about moving the installation point of the
major SBS applications, SBS is tightly integrated and by moving the
application installation point you may experience a problem when, say, a
service pack comes out.
The system is overpartitioned. Please explain the benefit you perceive by
using these additional partitions.
The plan does not account at all for:
companywide shared data (either sharepoint or the 2000 style 'company shared
folder')
private user shares
roaming profiles or folder redirection (if implemented)
Though you mention CRM is to be installed you seem to have already run out
of space by dedicating it to other tasks.
I would create a single RAID 5 array using 3 HDD's and the fourth as
hotspare. Total usable space 140GB partitioned as 20GB for OS/Program
installation point and a single DATA partition using the rest, all DATA
(exch/sql databases included) would reside on this partition. I _may_ move
the logfiles to this partition as well.
I've been waiting for proponents of the seperate partition for Exchange/SQL
databases to pull me up on a point (I've been involved in more than a few
such discussions), a point I have ignored but thought about recently. The
effect of large database files on Shadow Copy. I haven't thought this
through completely but at 'first level' it would seem sensible to have such
large databases on partitions excluded from Shadow Copy, relying on the
underlying database technology to 'roll back' or 'recover' data rather than
allowing them to consume your Shadow Copy allowance. If this 'pans out' in
the manner I'm thinking I may well change my position to '20GB for OS (turn
off shadow copy), xGB for specifically Shadow Copy excluded files, remaining
GB's for Shadow Copy enabled partition (DATA)'. The partition which holds
the files excluded from shadow copy could also hold the shadow copy data
from the standard DATA partition.
"John" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Is there a document that describes the optimal installation locations for
an SBS 2003 Premium installation.
I am setting up a new server. I anticipate creating two hardware mirrors
of approx. 70 Gb. each. I have 6 drive bays available but I would prefer
to keep the 2 open bays for hot spares. If the perfomance increase
justified it, I would give up one of the spare drives to act as a
dedicated swap file location.
We run an additional server for File/Print/RDP so SBS will primarily be
used for Exchange and SQL, with the addition of Microsoft CRM 3.0. on this
installation.
I do not intend to install ISA right now but could add it in the future
for learning purposes. We currently run an external firewall with VPN
connections to multiple networks.
I guess my question(s) is really how I should break up the drives for OS,
Exchange Components, and SQL Components. My original plan was to allocate
as follows:
Mirror 1
First Partition = 20 Gb. for OS
Second Partition = 25 Gb. for SQL Application and other applications
except Exchange.
Third Partition = 25 Gb. for Exchange Application and Exchange Logs.
Mirror 2
First Partition = 40 Gb. for Exhange Mail Storage.
Second Partition = 30 Gb. for SQL Database.
Am I going about this correctly or should I be using a different
configuration?
Thank you.
.
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