I've done this a dozen times with 2650's and Compaq DL380s (generally the same form factor).
RAID1 mirror, partitioned. 1 Partition gets the OS, a pagefile, and all installed apps (Exchange et al). Second partiton is dedicated to log files. RAID5 for the remaining 3 drives, with an equal size pagefile to above, and all data - including the MTADATA working directory. It will work fine, and with that box, I doubt you're gonna have big enough stores to have enough loading for you to see drive related bottlenecks. -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Reasoner, Bob (PHES) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 7:25 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Preparing for performance > > > I have a Dell 2650 dual Xeon box that I will be building our > Exchange Server > on. I know it is best to put the logs on their own drive, > but that makes it > a little difficult to configure on this particular server (no choice). > > It has a Perc 3DI RAID controller and 5 Internal (36 GB) > drives. I was > thinking to carve it up as two drives for the OS/Logs, RAID0 > or 1, and 3 > drives for the stores RAID5. I may be able to have a single > drive for the > OS and a single drive for the logs, and the three drives for > the stores, but > haven't tried to make a single drive with this RAID > controller before. I > know some other RAID controllers I've worked with in the past > allowed you to > create a single drive RAID1 or some strange setup to dedicate a single > physical drive. > > The maximum number of mailboxes I would ever support is 500 (counting > resource boxes). This will be Exchange Enterprise so that I > can have more > than 1 store (had problems in the past with the single store > 16GB limit of > standard). > > Any thoughts from the pros on the list who do this more often? > > > Bob Reasoner > Harris County Public Health & Environmental Services > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t ext_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
