Right way, wrong way then the Microsoft way. M ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael B. Smith To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 11:13 AM Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 Drive Configuration
This is an argument I've had with many IT folks who just went to various Microsoft MCP and MCSE classes where they say "separate the volumes" but don't every say WHY and under what conditions to do so. Five minutes with a whiteboard generally convinces them. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 1:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange 2007 Drive Configuration Where were you when my predecessor setup our sbs? Because I was an accountant (disregarding my 12 years of IT experience, the last 7 of which were with Windows servers and Exchange) he completely ignored my recommendation of not creating logical drives to split swap, logs, application, database and os. Guess how many partitions there are, and how many raid volumes? :-) On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Michael B. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: IF you are using separate physical volumes. Creating a separate logical volume gains you nothing (performance-wise). Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange -----Original Message----- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 11:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 Drive Configuration I've always heard best practice is to separate out the stores and logs, and if you have the hardware, the swap and tmp, too. -Paul -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 10:04 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 Drive Configuration If you are presuming that that is because the boot volume might fill up because of log files - well, my opinion is that you should be monitoring that situation. And if you aren't, serves you right. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange -----Original Message----- From: farooq.ahmed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 10:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 Drive Configuration yes , i agree but seperating logs might be benificial. ________________________________ From: Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 8:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 Drive Configuration I wouldn't make that so complicated. C: OS, applications, logs, pagefile D: exchange db While I always encourage people to "buy high", that's significantly more "oomph" than you'll need for 75 users. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 10:33 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2007 Drive Configuration Just checking to see if this is the best way to utilize the drives that I have in this server for Exchange 2007. My only question is about the Exchange Install drive. How much room should I use and does it grow at all? Organization One Exchange server 75 mailboxes Server Exchange 2007 on Server 2008 Dell PowerEdge 2950 2 quad core 2.0ghz processors 8 Gb of RAM 2 x 15k 73Gb Drives 4 x 15k 146Gb Drives RAID 1 = 2 73GB Drives - OS, Exchange Install, Exchange log Files C: 20Gb OS D: 10Gb Exchange Install E: 40Gb Exchange Log Files RAID 5 = 4 x 146GB Drives - Page File, Exchange DB F: 10Gb Page File G: 400Gb Exchange DB Thanks for your input Matt ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
