Setting up Exchange 2003 Cluster help required.

[Lazo Basic]

Can any body help,



I need a recomendation on seting up Exchange 2003 cluster HW side. We have 2
HP DL 380 servers with 3 x 36 hdd as well as 100GB SAN disk to be shared by
these server.

Plan is to have Exchange 2003 Ent in a clustered env. with 4 mail stores,
but how do I set the storage and do I need to partition SAN.

I had a look on MS and recomendation its imposible to implemente with the
SAN I have. MS are talking about diferent disks and diferent RAID settings.



All I need its for someone to tell me whats the best way to set the HW.



Many thanks for your help.

[MC]

Simply configure a raid 5 for the four information store databases and stmp
queues and a raid 1 for the transaction logs. Don't put any other data on
the transaction log disks.
Use raid 1 as system disks in the physical nodes as system disks (2 x 36GB
raid 1 + one disk as hostspare).

MC


"Lazo Basic" <l_basic.Nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Can any body help,



I need a recomendation on seting up Exchange 2003 cluster HW side. We have
2
HP DL 380 servers with 3 x 36 hdd as well as 100GB SAN disk to be shared
by
these server.

Plan is to have Exchange 2003 Ent in a clustered env. with 4 mail stores,
but how do I set the storage and do I need to partition SAN.

I had a look on MS and recomendation its imposible to implemente with the
SAN I have. MS are talking about diferent disks and diferent RAID
settings.



All I need its for someone to tell me whats the best way to set the HW.



Many thanks for your help.

[Lazo Basic]

Thanks MC,

I'm using HDS 795 SAN Disk thats already setup with RAID 5.

Can I just creat 2 disks on the SAN one for IS and STMP and one for
Transaction Logs.


And RAID 5 the 3 system disks on each node.


Thanks again.





"MC" <seaedsit@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Simply configure a raid 5 for the four information store databases and
stmp
queues and a raid 1 for the transaction logs. Don't put any other data on
the transaction log disks.
Use raid 1 as system disks in the physical nodes as system disks (2 x 36GB
raid 1 + one disk as hostspare).

MC


"Lazo Basic" <l_basic.Nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:eiLqDFOQFHA.3076@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
Can any body help,



I need a recomendation on seting up Exchange 2003 cluster HW side. We
have
2
HP DL 380 servers with 3 x 36 hdd as well as 100GB SAN disk to be shared
by
these server.

Plan is to have Exchange 2003 Ent in a clustered env. with 4 mail
stores,
but how do I set the storage and do I need to partition SAN.

I had a look on MS and recomendation its imposible to implemente with
the
SAN I have. MS are talking about diferent disks and diferent RAID
settings.



All I need its for someone to tell me whats the best way to set the HW.



Many thanks for your help.