Awesome Ken! Thanks!
Do you backup with something like ESXRanger or Veeam?
If so, any issues with them backing up huge VMDKs?


Thanks,
Jon


On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Ken Cornetet <[email protected]> wrote:
> VMDK.
>
> We have two mailbox servers handling about 4000 mailboxes each. Each Exchange 
> server uses multiple storage groups with multiple databases spread across 
> three drive letters - one drive for log files, the other two for stores.
>
> These three drive letters correspond directly to three VMDK files that live 
> in one VMFS which lives on one SAN LUN (but that LUN is spread across 15 
> spindles).
>
> I have noticed that Exchange 2007 hits the disks much less than Exchange 2003.
>
> We also force our users (via group policy) to run Outlook in cached mode 
> which also cuts way back on the disk hits.
>
> Ken Cornetet 812.482.8499
> To err is human - to moo, bovine.
>

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