RE: Exchange and SAN

2003-09-23 Thread Roger Seielstad
thing else. -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -Original Message- > From: Steve Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 10:53 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Exchange and SAN > > &g

RE: Exchange and SAN

2003-09-23 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange and SAN I can't get past the concept that if the SAN dies (ie FC card or Power Supplies) then all teh servers you have attached to it are dead in the water. Sounds like a quasi mainframe to me. I still prefer many eggs and many baskets and take the disk hit.

RE: Exchange and SAN

2003-09-23 Thread Steve Evans
TED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 6:54 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange and SAN Just to add my 2 bits We moved our Exchange 5.5 running on win2k from direct attached disk raid 5 to a IBM ESS 2105 Shark, and we saw about 300 to 400% performance increase. -Origin

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2003-09-23 Thread Hansen, Eric
: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange and SAN Clarification Windows 2000 and Exchange 5.5 -Original Message- From: Rosales, Mario Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 11:17 AM To: 'Exchange Discussions' Subject: Exchange and SAN Has anyone ran Exchange in a SAN, and were

RE: Exchange and SAN

2003-09-23 Thread Couch, Nate
> -- > From: Roger Seielstad > Reply To: Exchange Discussions > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 7:35 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Exchange and SAN > > Actually, there's enough redundancy even in the smaller scale SANS tha

RE: Exchange and SAN

2003-09-23 Thread Roger Seielstad
ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 6:53 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Exchange and SAN > > > I can't get past the concept that if the SAN dies (ie FC card > or Power Supplies) then all teh servers you have attached to > it are

RE: Exchange and SAN

2003-09-23 Thread Robert Moir
argh > -Original Message- > From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 September 2003 20:58 > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Exchange and SAN > > > Hey, they use the same letters, so they have to be

RE: Exchange and SAN

2003-09-22 Thread Steve Evans
Cunningham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 3:53 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange and SAN I can't get past the concept that if the SAN dies (ie FC card or Power Supplies) then all teh servers you have attached to it are dead in the water. Soun

RE: Exchange and SAN

2003-09-22 Thread Dean Cunningham
iber to attach to the SAN so it's much faster for Exchange." -Original Message- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 2:50 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange and SAN As long as you don't buy into the great white l

RE: Exchange and SAN

2003-09-22 Thread Roger Seielstad
> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 4:52 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Exchange and SAN > > > My biggest problem is the amount of jerk-off sellers. > > We asked for > i) a san > ii) some direct-attatched external storage > > The amount o

RE: Exchange and SAN

2003-09-22 Thread Hurst, Paul
: Exchange and SAN I run 2 Exchange 2000 Enterprise servers on an HP EVA2 SAN. Each server has a 65GB IS right now and a 2GB Public IS. 16,000+ mailboxes total. I have seen no issues since migrating from our 5.5 environment 1 month ago to 2000 and moving away from direct attached SCSI disk environment

RE: Exchange and SAN

2003-09-20 Thread Robert Moir
. -Original Message- From: Schwartz, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 19/09/2003 20:52 To: Exchange Discussions Cc: Subject: RE: Exchange and SAN I'll kindly ask you to get off of my soapbox.

Re: Exchange and SAN

2003-09-19 Thread Daniel Foerst
I run 2 Exchange 2000 Enterprise servers on an HP EVA2 SAN. Each server has a 65GB IS right now and a 2GB Public IS. 16,000+ mailboxes total. I have seen no issues since migrating from our 5.5 environment 1 month ago to 2000 and moving away from direct attached SCSI disk environment. The big diffe

RE: Exchange and SAN

2003-09-19 Thread Schwartz, Jim
2003 2:50 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange and SAN As long as you don't buy into the great white lie of SAN's, you're golden. That lie is that there's no performance hit created by taking a single large array and carving it into a bunch of LUNs - there's a physics

RE: Exchange and SAN

2003-09-19 Thread Steve Evans
ee. It will be interesting to see how quickly Exchange and iSCSI come along. Steve Evans SDSU Foundation -Original Message- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 11:51 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange and SAN I thought NetApp only

RE: Exchange and SAN

2003-09-19 Thread Roger Seielstad
s Inc. > -Original Message- > From: Couch, Nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 12:34 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Exchange and SAN > > > I have run into this in a couple of situations. One where we > had a cluster > c

RE: Exchange and SAN

2003-09-19 Thread Roger Seielstad
, September 19, 2003 12:17 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Exchange and SAN > > > Has anyone ran Exchange in a SAN, and were there any issues > with it? I've > always had a raid array attached to it which could be the > same thing but did > not know if

RE: Exchange and SAN

2003-09-19 Thread Couch, Nate
-- > From: Rosales, Mario > Reply To: Exchange Discussions > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 11:16 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Exchange and SAN > > Has anyone ran Exchange in a SAN, and were there any issues with it? I've > al

RE: Exchange and SAN

2003-09-19 Thread Paul kondilys
Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange and SAN Clarification Windows 2000 and Exchange 5.5 -Original Message- From: Rosales, Mario Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 11:17 AM To: 'Exchange Discussions' Subject: Exchange and SAN Has anyone ran Exchange in a SAN, and were there any issu

RE: Exchange and SAN

2003-09-19 Thread Sirius F. Crackhoe
We have an exchange 2k server with 800 users, roughly 71 gb private store running on an HP MSA1000 and it works great. I would even venture to say that it runs better than it did on the local drives. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rosal

RE: Exchange and SAN

2003-09-19 Thread Bendall, Paul
Subject: RE: Exchange and SAN Clarification Windows 2000 and Exchange 5.5 -Original Message- From: Rosales, Mario Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 11:17 AM To: 'Exchange Discussions' Subject: Exchange and SAN Has anyone ran Exchange in a SAN, and were there any issues with

RE: Exchange and SAN

2003-09-19 Thread Rosales, Mario
Clarification Windows 2000 and Exchange 5.5 -Original Message- From: Rosales, Mario Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 11:17 AM To: 'Exchange Discussions' Subject: Exchange and SAN Has anyone ran Exchange in a SAN, and were there any issues with it? I've always had a raid

Exchange and SAN

2003-09-19 Thread Rosales, Mario
Has anyone ran Exchange in a SAN, and were there any issues with it? I've always had a raid array attached to it which could be the same thing but did not know if there were any major differences? Any help would be appreciate it. Thanks, Mario **