Re: Disk partition for Ex2k with Disaster recovery....

  • From: "Jeffrey Robillard" <jrobill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:22:25 -0400

I dont think there are any serial ata raid 5-10 controllers out yet are there.  
adaptec has one coming out soon, but its not out yet.   all they have is raid 0 
and 1.
 
how low are you trying to keep costs?   $3000, $5000, $8000
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Liles [mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 11:16 AM
To: [ExchangeList]
Subject: RE: [exchangelist] Re: Disk partition for Ex2k with Disaster 
recovery....


I am in the process of identifying requirements for a new Exchange 2000 box and 
would like some clarification....
 
In an effort to keep costs manageable we were considering serial ATA drives in 
some sort of RAID configuration.
 
If we have a separate drive for the OS should it also be a serial ATA drive or 
can it be a standard IDE drive on one of the motherboard controllers? If not 
recommended, I guess it should also be a serial ATA drive on its own controller?
 
We were thinking of a RAID 5 configuration for the storing of the Exchange 
database and logs. This would be a separate serial ATA controller....
 
Not being a hardware techie... I'm not sure if I'm on the right path regarding 
the hardware configuration....
 
Any advice from those who are?

Thanks

-----Original Message----- 
From: John Tolmachoff (Lists) [mailto:johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Fri 7/11/2003 2:52 AM 
To: [ExchangeList] 
Cc: 
Subject: [exchangelist] Re: Disk partition for Ex2k with Disaster recovery....


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If money is a concern, here is my .02:

 

All drives Dynamic (unless mirroring the SCSI via hardware raid) and all NTFS.

 

2 EIDE HD. 

Partition 1                         Partition 2                                 
 Partition 3

Boot and OS (Mirrored)        Page File (One on each drive)         Exchange 
Tran log (Mirrored)

 

2 SCSI

One partition. Mirrored. Exchange DB.

 

The reason for have 2 page files, each on a separate partition on separate 
drives, is it is not recommended to mirror the page file, and having 2 will 
keep you from having a blue screen in the event of a drive failure.

 

John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA

Engineer/Consultant

eServices For You

www.eservicesforyou.com

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Thomas [mailto:ryan@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 12:37 AM
To: [ExchangeList]
Subject: [exchangelist] Re: Disk partition for Ex2k with Disaster recovery....

 

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Mirror Mirror on the wall .....

 

Seriously buy another 40gB IDE as they are dirt cheap and mirror it, maybe do 
the same with the SCSI. Loads less hassle in the event of a drive failure.

 

regards

 

Ryan

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Hirantha  <mailto:hirantha@xxxxxxxxxxx> Wijayawardena 

To: [ExchangeList] <mailto:exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  

Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 5:40 AM

Subject: [exchangelist] Disk partition for Ex2k with Disaster recovery....

 

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Hi! Expertise,

 

Iâm planning to hookup another exchange 2000 server, with disaster recovery 
in mind. So I read some Microsoft articles with related to disaster recovery 
specially â Disaster recovery exchange 2000.pdf article. What they say is you 
have to have 6 hard disks.

 

Unfortunately I do not have much $$$$ â so my plan is to have a 2 SCSI 
Drivers â 18GB each and 1 IDE Hard Drive â 40GB, and the hard disk 
partition scheme is..

 

FDisk 1 (IDE HD) â Driver C: (Fat16)-windows 2000 boot files and Active 
drive, 100MB Primary partition

-          Drive d: (NTFS) â windows 2000 operating system files and swap 
files Remaining capacity Extended Partition

 

FDisk 2 (SCSI) â Drive E: (NTFS) â Exchange 2000 files and additional 
server applications, 100% full extended partition

 

FDisk 3 (SCSI) â Drive F: (NTFS) â transaction log files and database 
files. 100% full extended partition

 

Can I know from you all is this disk partition setups are ok!

This will give low performance due to use of the IDE HD?????????

Or this is not the wayââ

 

Thank you in advance 

 

 

Hirantha Wijayawardena

ICT Co-ordinator

Crescat Developments limited

Mobile: 94-(0)72-2440308

Tel: 94-(0)75-540404 Ext.221

www.crescatcity.com

 

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