Yes. In fact, you could have just a C drive.
Now, if you want to have SOME chance of recovery if the server crashes, I
would do the following:
1) Format the hard drives
2) Break the RAID 5
3) Take one disk and format it as C:
4) Take the other two disks, and mirror them to create D:
5) Install the OS and Exchange on C:
6) Tell performance optimiser to put the Logs on C: and the Information
Store on D:.
Then, ghod forbid you lose a spindle, you can still recover.
Drew (MOS)
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Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 8:03 PM
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Subject: RE: A good space for the Exchange server 5.5 configuration.
Hi, Drewski
I am going to use this server for 10 month only, then I would upgrade the
server to Exchange 2000 server.
If I am running RAID 5 on all my three drives, are you saying I could just
have C and D drive instead of having C, D, E, and F drives? It won't matter
at all.
Thanks
John Shi
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Subject: RE: A good space for the Exchange server 5.5 configuration.
With the set up you have, it really doesn't matter, because your partitions
are either sharing physical drives, or spanning physical drives -- so if a
drive fails, you'll lose everything anyway.
Drew (MOS)
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Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 7:53 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: A good space for the Exchange server 5.5 configuration.
Hi, Everyone
I have a server that has 3*18.2 GB. I have 4 GB on the C drive.
I have installed a Windows 2000 server and SP2 on the C drive. I need to
install Exchange server 5.5 on that.
I would like to find out what is the best space usage for private
Information store, Public Information store, Information Store Logs,
Directory Service, Directory Service logs, and MTA.
Should I just have C and D drive or I should have C, D, E, F drive? How do
I allocate these spaces?
The following is what I see from the MS book..
Private Information store C:\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA
Public Information Store C:\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA
Inforamtion Store Logs D:\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA
Directory Service F:\exchsrvr\DSADATA
Message Transfer Agent E:\exchsrvr\mtadata
I do not know how to allocate the disk space on each drive.
Thanks
John Shi
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