Best setup for exchange 2007 server

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Limp Gawd
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Hi All

We have just bought a new Dell 2950, quad core 2.8 ghz, 8 gb ram server, with 6x 300gb 15k sas drives in it.

I have raid 10'd these drives in to one large volume 830 gb roughly usable, with 64k strip size.

I intend to have 3 partitions on the volume, one O/S C: partition (say 15gb), one D drive exchange logs partition (say 20gb), and a exchange database partition taking up the remaining space.

Can anyone see any problems with this setup, and / or recommend another way round this - from everything I have read, a single large 6 drive raid 10 setup should provide the most speed, I have roughly 75 users currently which will go up slowly, server will have server 2003 x64 installed along with exchange 2007.

Cheers
Andy
 
just an idea, keep the OS and the logs on a different physical drive
 
not a possibility, ive only got the ability to have 6 drives total in the server and all 6 are populated with those 6 15k sas drives.

I did debate, a raid 1 mirror for 2 of them and raid10 on the remaining 4 - but have heard that a single raid10 volume is the way to go with this type of setup.

Cheers
A
 
its possible, just one of those drives for OS and logs.
put the rest in some kind of robust raid setup.

why not this?
1 OS drive with OS partition and log partition
5 drives in RAID 5, with 1 as hot swap.
 
Monkey God said:
its possible, just one of those drives for OS and logs.
put the rest in some kind of robust raid setup.

why not this?
1 OS drive with OS partition and log partition
5 drives in RAID 5, with 1 as hot swap.
Click to expand...

You never want to leave your OS on a single drive in such a server enviroment.



You could always do the following:

OS + Log = 2 drives Raid1
Remaining = 4 drives Raid10
or
Remaining = 3 drives Raid5 w/ spare
 
Ockie said:
You never want to leave your OS on a single drive in such a server enviroment.



You could always do the following:

OS + Log = 2 drives Raid1
Remaining = 4 drives Raid10
or
Remaining = 3 drives Raid5 w/ spare
Click to expand...

You're right, I do see what you say about mirroring the OS, that is a good point.
 
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