RE: Hardware Needs for Exchange 2000 - Free Dr ive Space
- From: "Mulnick, Al" <Al.Mulnick@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'[ExchangeList]'" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:07:33 -0500
Just to clarify a little. The 110 free space doesn't have to be on the same
drive. There are plenty of good reasons not to have it on the same drives
i.e. performance when maintenance tasks are underway etc. and this leaves
you free to have another server somewhere with the disk available, or even a
cabinet of disks you can plug in when needed. The lack of space doesn't
really become an issue until you have run out of room to expand the db's or
your queue drive becomes full etc. and the reserved files kick in. That
happens just before store shut down :)
If you put all the I/O on the same drives (phys) then you just want enough
room for growth plus the maintenance size plus the other file types. If you
have a need to optimize, having enough room for all growth is indicated.
And that is a really tough number to broadly say since the only true answer
is, "it depends on your environment"
If you're using standard edition, you can pretty much say that 16gb is about
all you're going to get out of the db's. If that's the case, then a db
drive space of > 40gb is likely going to be enough with some room to spare
for troubleshooting etc. That does not take into account the other files
such as log files, tmp space, queue space, etc. but with todays drives in a
direct connect config, space is cheap and you can afford to go way over
(usually.)
Al
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From: Mark Fugatt [mailto:mark@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 11:37 AM
To: [ExchangeList]
Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Hardware Needs for Exchange 2000 - Free Drive
Space
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Hi Vicki
That is really an impossible question to answer, but you should really
ensure that you have at least 110% of the largest Store size available for
maintenance tasks.
Mark Fugatt
MCSE, MCT, Microsoft Exchange MVP
Pentech Office Solutions Inc
Rochester, NY
Tel: 585 586 3890
Cell: 585 576 4750
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From: Knutsen, Vicki [mailto:vickik@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 11:38 AM
To: [ExchangeList]
Subject: [exchangelist] Hardware Needs for Exchange 2000 - Free Drive Space
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Hi all
I hope this doesn't sound like a idiot question - but
What is the best amount of free hard drive space needed for Exchange 2000
server to operate at its optimum performance?
Should it have 1/4 of the hard drive free - 1/8th - at what point can you
say - this (lack of hard drive space) is definitely going to slow down the
server and it's time to move it to a larger drive?
Vicki Knutsen
Portland, Oregon
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