"What are the disk considerations when installing exchange
(RAID types, locations and so on)"

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"What are the disk considerations when installing exchange (RAID types, locations and so on)&q..

Answer / naga.server

Server hardware
• Four 1 gigahertz (GHz), 1 megabyte (MB) or 2 MB L2
cache processors
• 4 gigabytes (GB) of Error Correction Code (ECC) RAM
• Two 100 megabits per second (Mbps) or 1000 Mbps
network interface cards
• RAID-1 array with two internal disks for the
Windows Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2003 program files
• Two redundant 64-bit fiber Host Bus Adapters (HBAs)
to connect to the Storage Area Network

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"What are the disk considerations when installing exchange (RAID types, locations and so on)&q..

Answer / shamseer.c

As we know exchange important components are the log files
and data base. log files become more important when a
exchange servers to be recovered from a failure, hence it is
recommended to keep your log files for redundancy. the fault
tolerance that is recommended on a portion where the log
files kept is RAID 1.
where as the portion that is used to the database also
requires fault tolerance but recommended is RAID 5."ze it
requires faster read and write access of database.

since the 2 diff fault tolerance it is always recommended 2
kept u log files and database on 2 diff partition.

2 move a database or log files = go 2 .> storage groups >
properties > browse

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"What are the disk considerations when installing exchange (RAID types, locations and so on)&q..

Answer / muthukumar

It is preferably use raid 1+0 or Raid 5 for Mailbox storage
. And using Raid 1 for log files.

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