IMHO, it's a waste of money for most shops. We've got our Exchange
servers on a CX-700 array, on one 4 disk raid 10 for the logs and
another 7 disk Raid 5 for the stores, with about 1800 mailboxes. It
works great, but when you look at the costs of the disks, shelf costs,
Fiber ports, Power Path license, etc, it really isn't worth it until you
get to the higher number of mailboxes (EX 4000+) even then with 07 still
probably not worth it. As each FC disk really need to be dedicated to
exchange and with 15k 146gb FC drives still going for about 1295.00
each, you could easily do the same thing on a dedicated MSA
500\1000\1500 (Insert you favorite dedicated disk array here) for half
the cost, and get the same or better performance.
Really EMC disk arrays on a san are of a different mindset than an
Exchange admin would prefer, imho you setup disk arrays on the san to
maximize the available space across all the disks, and arrange then to
still deliver pretty good performance. You don't really want to dedicate
disks for any one application as Exchange 2k\2k3 would like, as it's
just too expensive, and you end up wasting what the array is built for.
Just my $.02 worth though.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed
Crowley [MVP]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 9:00 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: EMC as data store for Exchange?
160 mailboxes?! Big whoop! Talk to me when your SAN engineer makes you
put
all the stores and logs for 3,500 mailboxes on a LUN that is based on
one
7-drive RAID-5 array.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Time Magazine's Person of the Year!
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Chinnery,
Paul
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 5:59 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: EMC as data store for Exchange?
We're still at Ex2K on a W2K network. Around 160 mailboxes but with Ex
Std
we're limited to max of 16 gig. We've had logs and data stored on EMC
CX500
for about 4 years now. We've never had a problem.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of sms
adm
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 4:49 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Re: EMC as data store for Exchange?
I have just inherited Exchange as a responsibility and we are planning
(I am
told) to use EMC as a data repository.
Does anyone else have Exchange setup this way and what are your
experiences.
Thx in advance
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