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Mar
17

New Exchange Servers

Posted under Technology by root

For those of you that know me, you are aware that my companies Exchange 2003 server went down hard about a week ago.  I was finally able to get Dell to finalize a quote today, and our order is in.  :-)

I configured two Dell PowerEdge 2950 III’s with RAID1/RAID5.  Faster 15k rpm drives for the OS, in a RAID 1 array, and slower 10k rpm drives configured in a RAID 5 array for VSS functions.

We purchased 9 Fibre SCSI hard drives for our Hitachi SAN, operating at 4gbps and with a capacity of 300GB each.  I am going to set these up in RAID 5, and use this array for Exchanges primary edb/log file location. 

The servers local array will be used for Exchange 2007′s VSS.  That is, Exchange can keep shadow copies, and or track changes to the database for recovery operations should the main array fail.  The two PowerEdge 2950 III’s will also be setup in a cluster, both via the OS and Exchange.

I can’t wait… ;-)

  1. joe Said,

    why are you using e2k3 ??

    e2k7 is sp1 now and 2950s are 64bit .. u could really use the data mirroring

  2. root Said,

    I am using e2k3 now – it’s what failed us. I will be upgrading to e2k7 on this new hardware….

    Hence the statement “servers local array will be used for Exchange 2007′s VSS.” ;-)

  3. Nikotinka Said,

    ???????? ?? ?????? ??????? to be continied

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