I aggree, just make a single raid5 container/logical drive ( I forget what dell call them) and partition 10gb C: and the remaining as D:
When you install Exchange, use D: for the storage group. You might want to move the mailroot structure too. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=822933 Matt -- > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Fyodorov, Andrey FTL > Sent: Wednesday, 10 March 2004 5:23 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Hard Drive Comfiguration for exchange server and > AD server. > > > With one physical disk volume that you currently have it > won't make much difference whether you dump everything into > one big partition or create separate partitions. The only > benefit of creating separate partitions on your RAID5 volume > would be to control the disk space utilization. As someone > else pointed out a few days ago on this mailing list, you > don't want the OS to run out of disk space. So you may want > to create a separate partition just for the OS and keep > Exchange files out of it. This way if Exchange grows out of > control, it will not kill the OS. Other than that - you won't > gain anything else. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jose Manzano > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 1:01 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Hard Drive Comfiguration for exchange server and > AD server. > > > I need separate Physical volumes? So it's the same if I put > everything on one partition with my current drive configuration? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Fyodorov, Andrey FTL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 12:50 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Hard Drive Comfiguration for exchange server and > AD server. > > You need separate *physical* volumes if you want to optimize > your server's performance. Simply partitioning your existing > RAID5 into logical volumes is not going to buy you anything. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jose Manzano > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 12:35 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Hard Drive Comfiguration for exchange server and > AD server. > > > I'm sorry I mean the partition configuration for the raid > set. I was thinking something along the lines of 3 partitions > > Just not sure since on 5.5 you would run the Exchange > optimizer to move some files (logs files, ect) to other > partitions to optimize the server for better performance . > > And since this server is going to also be a domain controller > I wanted to get some feedback on how others have set up the > partitions for similar configurations... > > Thank you!!! > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Fyodorov, Andrey FTL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 12:24 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Hard Drive Comfiguration for exchange server and > AD server. > > Well you already have a RAID5, what else can you do to it? > > It seems that you only have 3 physical disks. Can't really do > too much with that other than a RAID5 or RAID1 + Hotspare. > > If you had more physical disks, I would suggest to build at > least a RAID1 and a RAID5. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jose Manzano > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 12:16 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Hard Drive Comfiguration for exchange server and AD server. > > > Hello, > > I have a Dell server with 72 gigs on raid5. I'm looking to > install 2003 AD and exchange 2003 on that server. My > question is what is the best configuration for the 75 gig > raid set that is going to hold 2003 Active directory and Exchange? > > Thank you guys !!! > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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&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&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&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. 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