Cluster Hardware Requirements   

Sorry to post this, I have researched this a lot and connot find any 
definitive answers. We are running an exchange 2007 Server-Typical 
installation. We recently witnessed a long email outage for another business, 
so now we are exploring cluster options. For CCR, we would like to know 
hardware requirements. Out current exchange server is an HP DL380, SAS 
drives, 4GB RAM. If we wanted to move to a CCR config-2 servers for mailbox 
cluster, two servers for NLB for remaining Exchange Functions, do we need 
SAN,FIBRE Channel or iSCSI drives? I dont want to purchase servers with just 
local disks to find out ithat I need more, and i can't find the proper 
documentation on hardware specs for this type of Cluster.
-- 
jgarcia

date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:12:01 -0700   author:   mrjules

Re: Cluster Hardware Requirements   

Hi,

What you need depends on number of users, type of users etc. Just make sure 
that disk IO requirements are met
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/01/15/432199.aspx

These might also help:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123996(EXCHG.80).aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124518(EXCHG.80).aspx

Leif
"mrjules"  skrev i meddelelsen 
news:13E32CA8-DFF3-45CA-B3F1-CE33074D6023@microsoft.com...
> Sorry to post this, I have researched this a lot and connot find any
> definitive answers. We are running an exchange 2007 Server-Typical
> installation. We recently witnessed a long email outage for another 
> business,
> so now we are exploring cluster options. For CCR, we would like to know
> hardware requirements. Out current exchange server is an HP DL380, SAS
> drives, 4GB RAM. If we wanted to move to a CCR config-2 servers for 
> mailbox
> cluster, two servers for NLB for remaining Exchange Functions, do we need
> SAN,FIBRE Channel or iSCSI drives? I dont want to purchase servers with 
> just
> local disks to find out ithat I need more, and i can't find the proper
> documentation on hardware specs for this type of Cluster.
> -- 
> jgarcia

date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:10:13 +0200   author:   Leif Pedersen [ MVP]

Re: Cluster Hardware Requirements   

Thank you so much. It was that last document that I have been looking for. It 
really explains what I had questions about.
-- 
jgarcia


"Leif Pedersen [ MVP]" wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> What you need depends on number of users, type of users etc. Just make sure 
> that disk IO requirements are met
> http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/01/15/432199.aspx
> 
> These might also help:
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123996(EXCHG.80).aspx
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124518(EXCHG.80).aspx
> 
> Leif
> "mrjules"  skrev i meddelelsen 
> news:13E32CA8-DFF3-45CA-B3F1-CE33074D6023@microsoft.com...
> > Sorry to post this, I have researched this a lot and connot find any
> > definitive answers. We are running an exchange 2007 Server-Typical
> > installation. We recently witnessed a long email outage for another 
> > business,
> > so now we are exploring cluster options. For CCR, we would like to know
> > hardware requirements. Out current exchange server is an HP DL380, SAS
> > drives, 4GB RAM. If we wanted to move to a CCR config-2 servers for 
> > mailbox
> > cluster, two servers for NLB for remaining Exchange Functions, do we need
> > SAN,FIBRE Channel or iSCSI drives? I dont want to purchase servers with 
> > just
> > local disks to find out ithat I need more, and i can't find the proper
> > documentation on hardware specs for this type of Cluster.
> > -- 
> > jgarcia 
> 
>

date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:42:02 -0700   author:   mrjules