So the answer is: *insert drumroll here*
D. None of the above.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 1:07 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: A good space for the Exchange server 5.5 configuration.
>
>
> If the log drive fails, all transactions are committed to the
> database and
> Exchange shuts down. (That is in theory.) However, your
> point is quite
> valid since the log drive is also the OS drive, and if the OS
> drive fails, I
> don't trust anything to shut down right. So I would agree to
> mirror the
> OS-Log drive and put the database on the unmirrored third
> drive. I would
> also partition the OS-Log drive into two partitions (9 + 9 GB
> sounds fine,
> adjusting that one way or the other is fine, too) so that if
> you have some
> problem with backups and the logs don't get purged for a
> period of time it
> doesn't completely kill your system.
>
> Still, I'd want one more drive before I'd call this a
> production server,
> even if for only ten months.
>
> Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
> Tech Consultant
> Compaq Computer Corporation
> All your base are belong to us.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Osborn, Joel
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 5:38 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.
>
> Joel K. Osborn
> Information Systems Technical Specialist
> Wisconsin Department of Transportation
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Drewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> 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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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Drewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 6:03 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> 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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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [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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