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Jeff Nagel
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Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:17 pm Post subject:
Exchange 2003 Hardware Considerations |
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We are planning a migration from Notes to Exchange 2003 and I had some
questions regarding hardware configurations. We were considering a couple of
HP DL360's running Windows 2003 Server Clustering. These boxes only support
2 U320 drives. We are looking for good performance as well as redundancy and
failover for about 1400 users. Are we better off with a box that can support
more drives so we can do RAID-5 or would these boxes be sufficient?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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Al Mulnick
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Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:42 pm Post subject:
Re: Exchange 2003 Hardware Considerations |
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Jeff, you may or may not be familiar with Microsoft clustering, but one
thing that jumps out at me is that you don't have the requirements if you're
not talking about shared drives.
HP DL360's are not really intended for this type of app. They're more
intended as a web server type of machine vs. a departmental size db
application such as you're describing.
DL380's are likely more what you're looking for in this case. And if you
want them to be clustered, you need to check out the cluster hcl on
Microsoft's web site and HP's solutions sites. They usually come
preconfigured as a cluster. In fact, HP sells cluster in a box solutions at
this size. That might be worth looking at.
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/solutions/enterprise/highavailability/dl380/
Al
"Jeff Nagel" <Jeff Nagel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | We are planning a migration from Notes to Exchange 2003 and I had some
questions regarding hardware configurations. We were considering a couple
of
HP DL360's running Windows 2003 Server Clustering. These boxes only
support
2 U320 drives. We are looking for good performance as well as redundancy
and
failover for about 1400 users. Are we better off with a box that can
support
more drives so we can do RAID-5 or would these boxes be sufficient?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks. |
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Jeff Nagel
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Tue Jan 11, 2005 9:53 pm Post subject:
Re: Exchange 2003 Hardware Considerations |
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Thanks Al. Clustering is new to me. I will look into the DL380's.
"Al Mulnick" wrote:
| Quote: | Jeff, you may or may not be familiar with Microsoft clustering, but one
thing that jumps out at me is that you don't have the requirements if you're
not talking about shared drives.
HP DL360's are not really intended for this type of app. They're more
intended as a web server type of machine vs. a departmental size db
application such as you're describing.
DL380's are likely more what you're looking for in this case. And if you
want them to be clustered, you need to check out the cluster hcl on
Microsoft's web site and HP's solutions sites. They usually come
preconfigured as a cluster. In fact, HP sells cluster in a box solutions at
this size. That might be worth looking at.
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/solutions/enterprise/highavailability/dl380/
Al
"Jeff Nagel" <Jeff Nagel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D175C7E6-5724-47F2-B593-4CF34AE51352@microsoft.com...
We are planning a migration from Notes to Exchange 2003 and I had some
questions regarding hardware configurations. We were considering a couple
of
HP DL360's running Windows 2003 Server Clustering. These boxes only
support
2 U320 drives. We are looking for good performance as well as redundancy
and
failover for about 1400 users. Are we better off with a box that can
support
more drives so we can do RAID-5 or would these boxes be sufficient?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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bf
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Wed Jan 12, 2005 6:53 pm Post subject:
Re: Exchange 2003 Hardware Considerations |
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Jeff Nagel wrote:
| Quote: | We are planning a migration from Notes to Exchange 2003 and I had some
questions regarding hardware configurations. We were considering a couple of
HP DL360's running Windows 2003 Server Clustering. These boxes only support
2 U320 drives. We are looking for good performance as well as redundancy and
failover for about 1400 users. Are we better off with a box that can support
more drives so we can do RAID-5 or would these boxes be sufficient?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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Don't forget you need a shared storage for clustering. Then, no matter
how many disks you have in the server, your data will be on the shared
storage.
DL360 are ok for clustering as long they have enough PCI slots to hold
Fiberchannel adapters or SCSI controllers to connect to the shared storage. |
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JP Money
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Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:11 am Post subject:
Re: Exchange 2003 Hardware Considerations |
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Our company loves the dl380 that is all we buy, any more were are getting
ready to do a exchange 2000 to 2003 upgrade and will be getting on of the
cluster kit that HP sells. These babys come with everything you need. We
got 2 last year for another purpose and they screem!! |
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