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Partitioning for Exchange 2000

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by curnies

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Hi,

I have a new Server onto which I will install Windows 2000 Server with AD and Exchange Server 2000. Can you advise me on a good partition configuration.

I have 4 x 18G SCSI hard drives.
25 users with max mailbox size of about 300MB
The Server will be Domain Controller.

Also if my email address are eg. "joe@xyz.ie" do I need to setup my windows 2000 Domain and DNS as servername.xyz.ie or can I give the domain any name eg. "servername.abc.ie"

TIA

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by yorkster

Make the O/S a seperate drive and the transaction logs and information store on separate drives as follows.
drive 1 O/S
drive 2 transaction logs
drive 3& 4 make a volume set and put the information store on it.
if you had one more drive I wouldmake the information a raid 5.

by curnies

Seems a bit too much space to give over to OS and Logs and doesn't provide much fault tolerance

by tprinzo

One partition for boot/system, one for data files, and one for Exchange. Normally I try to mirror the Boot/system and Raid5 the data,but that is a liitle hard with your setup. You don't have hardware RAID? First thought, boot/system 9GB mirror between Disk 1 and Disk 2, with the other space on these 2 drives plus 9GB on Disk 3 set RAID5, should be 18GB of useable space. You then have 9GB on Disk 3 and 18GB on Disk 4. Depending on what is most critical I would put whatever it is on the Raid5and the 18GB of disk 4 for the other. The left over 9GB on disk 3 you could use for storing software CD or service packs and hotfixes.

Do you plan on hosting your web site, probably not a good idea, so since your web site is elsewhere name you domain xyz.local you can set the domain name for email in Exchange, even set it for more than 1 domain.

Hope that helps.

by curnies

This sound good - one further question -Would you advise against using raid 5 across all 4 drives. I have hardware raid and a fairly decent server. The disks are 10k RPM. If I have only 25 users would Raid 5 write performance still be a major issue?

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