We have a very
similar setup for our students. About 2000 users. We limit their
storage to 15mb. I only had 6 drives to work with.
Drives
are:
18gb raid 1 for OS
and logs. I split it into 2 9gb partitions. 1 for os and the
other for logs.
4 18gb raid 5 for
database.
I don't know if
this is the optimal performance setup but it has worked just fine for
us. It is on a single processor 933 with 1.5gb of ram. We even
had a drive fail during the first week of operation and it didn't miss a
beat.
Storage groups are
split into a group of classes. Databases are spilt up into the class
year.
Storage group:
2001-2005
Databases: Classof2001
Classof2002
Classof2003
Classof2004
Classof2005
Storage group:
2006-2010
Databases: etc....
Also, if you are
running Advanced Server, check out this article about having more then 1gb
of ram.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q266096
-----Original
Message-----
From: Bob
Chyka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 8:52
AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin
Issues
Subject: New
Exchange Install
Hello everybody,
just looking
for a little guidance/insight on a new project im looking at
doing.
i have exchange 5.5 running at 3 different companies and
understand how
it works, etc.
for the college that i work for, they want me to
deploy a exchange 2000
server that will host 2000 mail accounts. i
just need some guidance of
where i should go to design our server for
this many users and how to set
up exchange. i wanted to split the
users onto a couple servers but money
doesnt allow this right
now.
this is the hardware i have to work with. i have a dell
6400 with dual
PIII 1.0ghz xeons with 2 megs of cache. i have 3
gigs of ram and 7 hard
drives to work with with a perc RAID
controller. i was going to configure
raid 1 for the OS and another
RAID 1 set for the log files, then use the
last 3 drives in a raid 5
config for the databases.
i have some whitepapers from microsoft on
how to set up the server with
that many users but they dont really get
into details. any help is
greatly appreciated!
thanks for
your time,
Bob C.
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