he's only got three drives.
I suppose he could do it the other way -- put the os and the logs on a
mirror, and the IS on a single drive, but I figure he's gonna have a bigger
IS than the OS and logs put together...
It just seems to me that it's more important to have the logs and the IS on
seperate spindles than logs on a mirror. YMMV, of course.
Drew (MOS)
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Osborn, Joel
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 7:37 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: A good space for the Exchange server 5.5 configuration.
You would put the logs on an unmirrored drive?
Data (that has been backed up) can be recovered. Unbacked up logs (created
since the last back up) cannot.
I'm not sure what the answer would be, given the drive constraints, but I
would press for some more drive. I would not trust the logs to a
non-redundant spindle. But I also understand the need to keep the logs and
data on seperate spindles.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 8:17 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: A good space for the Exchange server 5.5 configuration.
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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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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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Shi
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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