Setting up Exchange 2003 Cluster help required.

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Lazo Basic - 14 Apr 2005 11:59 GMT

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.

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MC - 15 Apr 2005 00:25 GMT

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

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Lazo Basic - 15 Apr 2005 12:11 GMT

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.

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