Re: SBS2K3/RAID Set up

I understand this fully. That is how I recommended it be done. However, they
have 1 person who knows (or thinks he does) about servers, etc. and this is
what they want. If things do not work out in the long run, they just have to
pay me to fix it. I have spoke to them, but like I said, this is what they
want.
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Thanks for your help.


"Larry Struckmeyer [SBS-MVP]" wrote:

Just because you can is not necessarily the best reason to do so. I suggest
that you spend some time considering the needs of the organization and the
functionality of the hardware before you jump into the allocation of
resources.

I think with 8 drives your client might be better served with 2 drives in
RAID1 for the system drive (Windows); then 5 Drives in RAID 5, partitioned
however you like for data, and 1 for a universal hot spare.

Not knowing anything more than what you have said about your customer and
the needs of the organization, I realize that other considerations might
overrule the above, but there are advantages to being able to replace the
system without having to bring down the data, and the reverse.

If high volume, high transactions SQL is involved here, you could use a
slightly different approach, but I don't see anything in your query to
suggest that.
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Larry
Please post the resolution to your
issue so that others may benefit.


"Chad A Gross" <chad.gross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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#1) Yes - you can have all of the drives in a single array to create one
big logical drive, then partition it off. I would recommend keeping one
drive as a dedicated hot-spare.

#2) Yes - check out www.sbsmigration.com

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Chad A Gross
http://www.msmvps.com/blogs/cgross

"Northwest Upgrades Plus" <andyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx(donotspam)> wrote in
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This is actually a 2 part question. First, I have a client that I am
building
an upgraded server for. There are 8 Ea. SAS drives in a SuperMicro case
with
a backplane. Is it possible for me to create just one array and then have
SBS2003 setup partition it off? My client wants to use RAID 5 and have
all 8
drives in the array. That way, in the event of a drive failure, whether
it is
the OS or another drive, it can be swapped out. It has been a long time
since
i used the Third Party driver set up and I do not remember if it will
allow
me to do this or not.

Second question is this: Since this is an upgrade of hardware only, as
they
currently have SBS 2003 on another Server, is it possible to get the
current
users/systems migrated to the new server, so as not to have to set up
each
individual workstation again? Also, can mail settings from Exchange
Server be
migrated as well?

Thanks for any help you can provide.
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Thanks for your help.




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