We run UNIX, Novell and NT with Exchange on the Shark SANS without any
issues. Yes you tell the SANS that this space is designated for the Exchange
box.
you see all the sans does is emulate hdds. You know the ide connection that
connects the hdds in your pc? Well a scsi or fibre channel is the
replacement for ide connection. All the sans does is put a virtual the hdd
on that connection but the server thinks it is a real hdd. If you tell the
sans a 10 gig on that cionnector then it is a 10 gigs. The servers do not
"share" the designated space.
It works very nicely. We had a motherboard go up on one of the novell
servers ("diskless" server) and literally just moved the fibre card to
another server class machine (which we fortuanely had just got in) and it
"thought" it was back up in working in the same machine. Its Great!!
Enjoy!!!
Elizabeth Thompson
Service and Support Technician
CCBC - Catonsville
-----Original Message-----
From: Woodruff, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 11:12 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: Exchange on Shark SAN solution
We are running our 2k server on a XIOTECH box. Runs great.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Beeler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:28 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Exchange on Shark SAN solution
My company has recently purchased a shark SAN that they are putting the
company's various UNIX and windows applications on. They are pushing to put
Exchange on it, however, I am somewhat skeptical due to some testing with
another SAN (Xiotech) that was unimpressive from a performance standpoint.
My questions are 2 fold:
For those of you running on SANs that are shared with other applications,
was there a specific way to dedicate a certain number of drives to Exchange
so that it doesn't have to share them with other applications to ensure best
performance? All opinions would be much appreciated since the SAN world is
new to me and it seems like there are many different ways to configure them.
The second part of my question is if anyone here is running Exchange 2000 on
a SHARK and what they're experience has been.
Thanks for all your help.
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