Exchange 2007 and FC NetApp

[thmadd]

Here's the skinny:

1200+ users; approx. 600 GB mail data; 1 CAS/HTX server & 1 MBX server running EXC 2007 Enterprise on 64 bit server 08. we ahve plenty of hardware and storage for the design. What i have questions about is the vm configfor the mailbox server. i was planning to give the vm 2 vHDD's. 1 vmfs which would contain the OS and such and the 2nd vHDD would be a RDM volume to the FC SAN.

Any thoughts, recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

[azn2kew · Accepted solution]

I would create seperate drives for log and mailboxes databases between 500GB+ for mailboxes and 100GB for the logs and each environment varies so plan accordingly. Have you check out NetApp & Exchange 2007 on VMware best practices for different scenarios and designs. Here's a quick one to look I'm assuming you're using CCR so plan them carefully to have optimal performance and redundancies.

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Stefan Nguyen

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[aaronb123]

great info!

I am in the process of designing a new 2007 implementation.

Any and all info is most welcome.