It's definitely possible, and some people do it. However, you will lose the ability to do supported backups via snapshots. So, for backups, you'll either do your typical tape backup type solution, or you will have to shut down Exchange and dismount the LUNs that the information store and logs live on, then snapshot, remount the LUNs and start Exchange...
--paul
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:30:05 -0500, Holland, William L hollandwl@state.gov wrote:
Is SnapDrive and SnapManager for Exchange really needed to run Exchange with databases on a filer using iSCSI? Seems to me that it would be possible to use MS's iSCSI initiator then manually create the iSCSI Groups and LUNs where the databases and logs will be stored then use scripts to perform routine maintenance and backups. Anyone out there using Exchange and iSCSI without SnapDrive and SnapManager for Exchange?