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Marlon Brown
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 7:18 pm    Post subject: Exchange 2003 performance on disk-array Reply with quote
I am about to purchase two 4 Proc 6650 Dell, 6GB to cluster Win2003 Ent +
Exch2003 Ent.
Total number of mailboxes=2,200 growth in 3 years=300 mailboxes
Exchange db size = 55GB
Currently I have about 90MB/mailbox.

I will use a disk-array Dell PV220 for this, disks=73GB each, 15KRPM.

Question here:
Do you think I have any chance to run into performane issues using the disk
array ? Should I necessarily buy a SAN for this instead ?

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Colby Holland [MSFT]
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 1:55 am    Post subject: Re: Exchange 2003 performance on disk-array Reply with quote
The array should work, but I would certainly review this document before
getting too far into it though:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5b135312-bbbe-402e-9e2d-3b7b0820d2f4&displaylang=en

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"Marlon Brown" <marlon_brown@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Quote:
I am about to purchase two 4 Proc 6650 Dell, 6GB to cluster Win2003 Ent +
Exch2003 Ent.
Total number of mailboxes=2,200 growth in 3 years=300 mailboxes
Exchange db size = 55GB
Currently I have about 90MB/mailbox.

I will use a disk-array Dell PV220 for this, disks=73GB each, 15KRPM.

Question here:
Do you think I have any chance to run into performane issues using the
disk
array ? Should I necessarily buy a SAN for this instead ?

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Marlon Brown
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 3:02 am    Post subject: Re: Exchange 2003 performance on disk-array Reply with quote
Thanks Colby. The only thing that I disagree with in this article is related
to SAN minimized management overhead when compared to SCSI disks;my
organization is mid size and management decided to purchase a high end SAN -
it has been tough on me when it comes to management overhead. Too many parts
to break there and I think a SAN should work for a structured IT department
and when a staff member is dedicated to manage it. In my case I have to
manage several systems and I don't have time dedicated to take care of the
SAN system...

Thanks much for your information,

"Colby Holland [MSFT]" <colbyh@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Quote:
The array should work, but I would certainly review this document before
getting too far into it though:


http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5b135312-bbbe-402e-9e2d-3b7b0820d2f4&displaylang=en

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"Marlon Brown" <marlon_brown@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I am about to purchase two 4 Proc 6650 Dell, 6GB to cluster Win2003 Ent +
Exch2003 Ent.
Total number of mailboxes=2,200 growth in 3 years=300 mailboxes
Exchange db size = 55GB
Currently I have about 90MB/mailbox.

I will use a disk-array Dell PV220 for this, disks=73GB each, 15KRPM.

Question here:
Do you think I have any chance to run into performane issues using the
disk
array ? Should I necessarily buy a SAN for this instead ?





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Colby Holland [MSFT]
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:07 pm    Post subject: Re: Exchange 2003 performance on disk-array Reply with quote
I would agree with that. For your size organization, this would probably be
easier to maintain a SCSI disk array. Anyway, it was my pleasure to help
you out. Good luck!

Regards,
Colby

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"Marlon Brown" <marlon_brown@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Quote:
Thanks Colby. The only thing that I disagree with in this article is
related
to SAN minimized management overhead when compared to SCSI disks;my
organization is mid size and management decided to purchase a high end
SAN -
it has been tough on me when it comes to management overhead. Too many
parts
to break there and I think a SAN should work for a structured IT
department
and when a staff member is dedicated to manage it. In my case I have to
manage several systems and I don't have time dedicated to take care of the
SAN system...

Thanks much for your information,

"Colby Holland [MSFT]" <colbyh@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:%23ogfO3JsEHA.3136@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
The array should work, but I would certainly review this document before
getting too far into it though:


http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5b135312-bbbe-402e-9e2d-3b7b0820d2f4&displaylang=en

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rights.


"Marlon Brown" <marlon_brown@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:eeVZwYGsEHA.3324@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
I am about to purchase two 4 Proc 6650 Dell, 6GB to cluster Win2003 Ent
+
Exch2003 Ent.
Total number of mailboxes=2,200 growth in 3 years=300 mailboxes
Exchange db size = 55GB
Currently I have about 90MB/mailbox.

I will use a disk-array Dell PV220 for this, disks=73GB each, 15KRPM.

Question here:
Do you think I have any chance to run into performane issues using the
disk
array ? Should I necessarily buy a SAN for this instead ?





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Benoit Boudeville
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Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:33 am    Post subject: RE: Exchange 2003 performance on disk-array Reply with quote
Quad proc with 6GB for 2500 users max ?
This machines are sized to host 6000 users, what a waste of money =P !

You should rather go to Bi-proc Hyperthreaded with 2GB, that'd suffice.

And don't buy Dell servers, they're not good, I saw so many troubles with
Broadcom drivers, eww.


"Marlon Brown" wrote:

Quote:
I am about to purchase two 4 Proc 6650 Dell, 6GB to cluster Win2003 Ent +
Exch2003 Ent.
Total number of mailboxes=2,200 growth in 3 years=300 mailboxes
Exchange db size = 55GB
Currently I have about 90MB/mailbox.

I will use a disk-array Dell PV220 for this, disks=73GB each, 15KRPM.

Question here:
Do you think I have any chance to run into performane issues using the disk
array ? Should I necessarily buy a SAN for this instead ?


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