Must be nice to have that kind of hardware budget! I think you'll be fine going that way.
-------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Anthony Sollars [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 1:47 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Location of Transaction Logs > > > WaaSuuuup Roger, > > > Good to hear from you. That is exactly what were considering > 1 cold standby > instead of clustering. All we would have to do is change the > World Wide Name > of our HBA fiber card in the SAN switch and were back up and > running. Thanks > for the info I will follow up with that, and will make sure I post my > findings back here when I have them. > > -TOny > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Roger Seielstad > Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 10:44 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Location of Transaction Logs > > Yo, Tony! I see you survived the trip back from Orlando... > > If I remember correctly, you can bypass caching at the RAID > group (not the > LUN) level through Navisphere. I don't currently have access > to mine to > check, but I know I asked that question. > > Another option is to change the read/write cache percentage > to be mostly > read caching and reduce the potential exposure. > > I'd suggest skipping boot-from-SAN, but that's just me. The > only reason I'd > see boot-from-SAN helping is if you are going to have > identical cold standby > hardware available to replace in the case of system failure. > I'm not sure > you want to use non-identical hardware for cold spares in > that kind of case. > > Roger > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP > Sr. Systems Administrator > Inovis Inc. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Anthony Sollars [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 12:11 PM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: Location of Transaction Logs > > > > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > We are planning a global Exchange upgrade here to > > 2003 and are > > researching an issue that an email admin here is having with > > the location of > > the Transaction logs in our new Exchange Architecture. We are > > planning to > > Deploy Quad-proc servers that are boot-to-SAN on an EMC > > Clarion CX600. The > > OS, Logs and DATA will be stored on the SAN. The problem is > > we are not sure > > if the transaction log data will be secure in the case of > > server outage, > > since the SAN utilizes a very hefty cache before it writes > > the data to SAN > > disk. We have already begun queuing our SAN vendor and MS, > > but they do take > > awhile in complex questions such as these, I was wondering if > > anyone in the > > list has deployed Exchange 200x on a SAN and has come across > > this question? > > > > Thanks again, > > > > Anthony L. 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