Spanning Mailboxes over multiple drives

[Debbie O.]

Can this be done?

I have 120 users, estimated 1 yr. growth 200 users. I have a 20 GB drive and 40 GB drive, right now. The optimizer does a nice job and places the public folders on one drive and the private folders on another. But.. (and you knew there would be a but) My users mailboxes average 400 Mb, my manager wants me to add 2 75 Gb SCSI drives and replace the 40 Gb with a 80 GB. I want to spread the mailboxes over 2 - 80 Gb drives and use the last 80 Gb drive for public folders. I think this would be great, if Exchange can handle spanning mailboxes over 2 drives. I've looked in the Optimizer and it doesn't look as if it can handle it. If it can't handle it, does that mean that I need a second Exchange Server? If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

I appreciate any help.

Thanks
Debbie Olah
System Administrator

[Brett]

Just use Disk Administrator to create a stripe set or volume set out of the two drives. It will then look like one big drive to NT/2000 and you can then run the optomize to move whatever database/log files you want to the new drive.


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Debbie O. at 4/5/01 5:38:22 PM


Can this be done?

I have 120 users, estimated 1 yr. growth 200 users. I have a 20 GB drive and 40 GB drive, right now. The optimizer does a nice job and places the public folders on one drive and the private folders on another. But.. (and you knew there would be a but) My users mailboxes average 400 Mb, my manager wants me to add 2 75 Gb SCSI drives and replace the 40 Gb with a 80 GB. I want to spread the mailboxes over 2 - 80 Gb drives and use the last 80 Gb drive for public folders. I think this would be great, if Exchange can handle spanning mailboxes over 2 drives. I've looked in the Optimizer and it doesn't look as if it can handle it. If it can't handle it, does that mean that I need a second Exchange Server? If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

I appreciate any help.

Thanks
Debbie Olah
System Administrator

[Debbie O.]

I didn't even think of that, thanks. I was thinking that Exchange would have an option to define. Talk about needing to think outside the box, sheesh!


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Brett at 4/6/01 12:18:44 AM

Just use Disk Administrator to create a stripe set or volume set out of the two drives. It will then look like one big drive to NT/2000 and you can then run the optomize to move whatever database/log files you want to the new drive.


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Debbie O. at 4/5/01 5:38:22 PM


Can this be done?

I have 120 users, estimated 1 yr. growth 200 users. I have a 20 GB drive and 40 GB drive, right now. The optimizer does a nice job and places the public folders on one drive and the private folders on another. But.. (and you knew there would be a but) My users mailboxes average 400 Mb, my manager wants me to add 2 75 Gb SCSI drives and replace the 40 Gb with a 80 GB. I want to spread the mailboxes over 2 - 80 Gb drives and use the last 80 Gb drive for public folders. I think this would be great, if Exchange can handle spanning mailboxes over 2 drives. I've looked in the Optimizer and it doesn't look as if it can handle it. If it can't handle it, does that mean that I need a second Exchange Server? If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

I appreciate any help.

Thanks
Debbie Olah
System Administrator

[mike]

Debbie, the proposed solution will work but what about redundancy. Managers do not always know whats best. Don't tell them that. You should go further than what your manager wants to do and bring in a Raid 5 solution.

Good Luck,

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Debbie O. at 4/5/01 5:38:22 PM


Can this be done?

I have 120 users, estimated 1 yr. growth 200 users. I have a 20 GB drive and 40 GB drive, right now. The optimizer does a nice job and places the public folders on one drive and the private folders on another. But.. (and you knew there would be a but) My users mailboxes average 400 Mb, my manager wants me to add 2 75 Gb SCSI drives and replace the 40 Gb with a 80 GB. I want to spread the mailboxes over 2 - 80 Gb drives and use the last 80 Gb drive for public folders. I think this would be great, if Exchange can handle spanning mailboxes over 2 drives. I've looked in the Optimizer and it doesn't look as if it can handle it. If it can't handle it, does that mean that I need a second Exchange Server? If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

I appreciate any help.

Thanks
Debbie Olah
System Administrator