Re: Adding new hard drive(s) to improve exchange performance
- From: "Kevin Weilbacher" <kw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 20:29:10 -0400
Meg,
You say you are getting poor performance with Outlook. You may be looking at the wrong thing when you are looking at your hard drive setup. It could be network, or SMB signing related?
Please define "poor performance"? Is it slow in opening Outlook? or what?
What version of Outlook (2003? 2007?)
Anything else slow - like copying a very large file to the server or from the server, to the workstation?
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Kevin Weilbacher [SBS MVP]
"The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"
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"MegB" <MegB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:271B4408-EB08-4FBE-AF00-B4EC8296C7DF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi. In December I installed Windows Small Business Server 2003 r2 with
exchange 2003 on a new server in our small (8 person) office. Performance in
the system is fine, except for when we are using microsoft outlook to access
our email (which is downloaded with the pop3 manager). I was reading the
newsgroup to try to figure out what we could do to improve performance, and
downloaded and ran the exchange troubleshooting assistant. The major things
it listed were disk bottleneck found, unusually high user activity detected,
and slow virus scanning calls. I've adjusted some of the virus scanner
settings to exclude exchange files that were listed in the exchange best
practices analyzer tool - which I also ran. We use Trend Micro client server
messaging security for smb) Also I see some notes that files from that
antivirus program would be better on separate hard drives from the operating
system.
From what I am reading in that troubleshooting program it sounds like I am
reading it is best to have your exchange files on a separate hard drive than
the operating system, and possibly files that are being shared. Does this
sound right? At the moment everything is on our one hard drive - file server,
exchange, and operating system. I wondered if adding one or two new hard
drives might be of help to us. I am pretty new to this, though I did manage
to set up the server without too much trouble and it is running fine except
for this one issue.
The computer is a Dell Poweredge 1900 Dual Core Xeon Processor 5050 2x2 mb
cache, 3 ghz, 667 mhz fsb with 2 gm of memory, 250 gm 7.2 rpm serial ata 3
gbps 3.5 cabled hard drive (2 of these with add in Raid 1 adapter)
I'm just reading off the order sheet - don't know if any other info would be
helpful but let me know. We are a landscape architecture office so receive
and send large file attachments regularly, and have the additional
requirement that everyone needs to be able to read everyone elses mail
folders, so that may add additional work to the server.
So basically I'm looking for advice on what would be the ideal number of
hard drives for a server that is running as a file server, exchange server,
and running this antivirus software for the server and the client computers
for a company with 8 users, or any other suggestions you might have.
I have not testing things with the changes I just made today - things may
improve, but we most likely will need more hard drives anyway at some point
for more file storage and I thought it might be easiest to add them all at
once.
Meg
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