Re: Partitioning quest

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I only have 3 Hard drives they are 146 Gig each and setup as a RAID 5. For
exchange, should I create a c and d partition in on the RAID 5. maybe a 30
Gig OS partition and the rest for Exchange data?

Jeff

"Robert Moir" wrote:

> Jeff Viola wrote:
> > I just setup a windows 2003 domain controller with 273 Gig HD.
> > Actually 3 146 GIg with Raid 5. I made it one large partition. Is
> > that a mistake.
>
> This is a matter of taste, asking if this is a mistake is like asking if it
> is a "mistake" to prefer salmon to steak when you go out to dinner.
>
> > My last server I was always tight on space on my OS
> > partition so I wanted to avoid that problem.
> >
> > I'm getting ready to setup an Exchange Server and an IIS server. I
> > haven't partitioned them yet. Any advise would be greatly
> > appreciated.
>
> My advice for an IIS server:
>
> Do whatever you like, whatever your budget permits, with regard to RAID.
>
> Partitions - place the IIS root on a seperate partition from your OS and
> other stuff like that.
>
> There used to be a nasty bug in IIS where someone could "walk" up the
> directory tree to the route of the hard drive that IIS was working from, and
> do pretty much whatever they like from there (including open the operating
> system folder and take over the server!). While I believe the days of bugs
> like that in IIS are pretty much gone, it still makes sense to limit your
> risks in this regard by putting the IIS root on its own drive; its still a
> pain in the *** if you get hacked but at least you've placed some limits on
> what they can do.
>
>
> My advice for an Exchange server.
>
> This is "ideal world" stuff. I realise that budgets might not allow what I'm
> going to suggest, and if your server only serves a couple of people then its
> not as important either way but:
> (all RAID suggestions are hardware RAID, and I assume that you are
> performing an "exchange aware" backup daily, if not more often)
>
> * OS / Exchange program files: - 2 hard disks in a RAID 1(mirror) config.
> * Exchange Logfiles: 2 hard disks in a RAID 0 config (maxes performance,
> stick with RAID 1 if RAID 0 makes you nervous)
> * Exchange Databases: a RAID 5 config with however many hard disks you feel
> you need to provide the storage space your exchange DBs require.
>
>
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