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. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Exchange on Shark SAN solution
In two weeks we will be migrating our Exchange storage to a Compaq SAN. With Compaq you can specify a preferred path to disks so that a specific server or cluster has access to those disks--no other system has access unless you configure the SAN to allow it. The default for Windows systems is to allow access to all disks. You have to disallow this before bringing the system online. In our testing the Compaq SAN worked fine. -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. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Exchange on Shark SAN solution
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. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
