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Brett W
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Tue May 17, 2005 1:42 pm Post subject:
Disk Partitioning on exch 2003 |
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Hi All,
We are currently implementing a new exch 2003
implementation. I have read that certain partioning will
give better performance of the exch server.
We have a userbase of around 1200. The server has 6 73G
disks with a single channel raid controller. 3G of Ram
Im thinking that it would be best to make two disks raid 1
for the OS and exch installation. Then making the other 4
raid 5 however partitioned into two with the databases on
one and the log files on the other.
Does anyone have any suggestions or comments on what would
be the best configuration for partitioning.
Thanks
Brett
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Al Mulnick
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Sat May 21, 2005 3:02 am Post subject:
Re: Disk Partitioning on exch 2003 |
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The only suggestion that comes to mind with those limitations is that you
may want to consider changing the limitations of the disk. Putting the log
files on the same drive partition is not a best practice after years of
learning the hard way by many people. You really should consider getting
some other disks to put the log files.
If that's not possible, then putting the log files on the same drive as the
OS would likely yield better performance than putting them on a RAID 5
partition. If that's not a concern either, than I can't offer any other
suggestions :)
Al
"Brett W" <Postmaster.au@capgemini.com> wrote in message
news:347e01c55abc$6977d660$a401280a@phx.gbl...
| Quote: | Hi All,
We are currently implementing a new exch 2003
implementation. I have read that certain partioning will
give better performance of the exch server.
We have a userbase of around 1200. The server has 6 73G
disks with a single channel raid controller. 3G of Ram
Im thinking that it would be best to make two disks raid 1
for the OS and exch installation. Then making the other 4
raid 5 however partitioned into two with the databases on
one and the log files on the other.
Does anyone have any suggestions or comments on what would
be the best configuration for partitioning.
Thanks
Brett |
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Asher_N
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Tue Jul 19, 2005 5:00 pm Post subject:
Re: Disk Partitioning on exch 2003 |
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"Al Mulnick" <amulnick_No_SPAM@ncDOTrr.com> wrote in
news:OSAxceYXFHA.580@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl:
| Quote: | The only suggestion that comes to mind with those limitations is that
you may want to consider changing the limitations of the disk.
Putting the log files on the same drive partition is not a best
practice after years of learning the hard way by many people. You
really should consider getting some other disks to put the log files.
If that's not possible, then putting the log files on the same drive
as the OS would likely yield better performance than putting them on a
RAID 5 partition. If that's not a concern either, than I can't offer
any other suggestions :)
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Keep in mind that most people will create a RAID1 and RAID5 array on the
same RAID controller. That does nothing for performance. I would make a
single array using all 6 drives, 3 logical partitions, the first one
around 20-30GB for the OS, a 20-30 GB for the logs and the rest for
data. If you really are that concerned about performance with the logs,
then I'd go with 2 partitions on my RAID5 array, and put a mirrored pair
of 35GB drives on a separate controler to house my logs.
| Quote: | Al
"Brett W" <Postmaster.au@capgemini.com> wrote in message
news:347e01c55abc$6977d660$a401280a@phx.gbl...
Hi All,
We are currently implementing a new exch 2003
implementation. I have read that certain partioning will
give better performance of the exch server.
We have a userbase of around 1200. The server has 6 73G
disks with a single channel raid controller. 3G of Ram
Im thinking that it would be best to make two disks raid 1
for the OS and exch installation. Then making the other 4
raid 5 however partitioned into two with the databases on
one and the log files on the other.
Does anyone have any suggestions or comments on what would
be the best configuration for partitioning.
Thanks
Brett
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