For both performance and supportability reasons, it is extremely inadvisable to put Exchange mailboxes/private stores/public stores on anything other than a filesystem which is directly-connected to the NT server in question.
People do all sorts of odd things with NetApps just because they can - and don't get me wrong, I love my F740 - but this is just plain crazy. For your own peace of mind, don't do it.
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-----Original Message----- From: Jamie Carr [mailto:jcarr@caseshare.com] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 3:22 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Exchange 2k
We are in process of deploying Exchange 2k to our clients, but no one has been able to answer the question of weather or not we could store Exchange 2k mailboxes on our toaster (NetApp 720) and be Microsoft compliant. We are currently using our toaster to store general data i.e. pdf's doc's etc. I am sure that the toaster will be able to store the data, but the question is restoring data in the event of deleted mail boxes etc. Microsoft has not said anything about this type configuration on a Exchange 2k box. I know lots of people who are using their toasters to store Exchange 5.5 mail boxes but none using 2k as of yet.
Has anyone tried this and what success/failure has any one encountered. I would like this work on the NetApp and not have to deploy and develop another storage solution, because in my mind there is nothing else out there that can beat a NetApp in availability and durability.
Thanks,
Jamie Carr
For both performance and supportability reasons, it is extremely inadvisable to put Exchange mailboxes/private stores/public stores on anything other than a filesystem which is directly-connected to the NT server in question.
People do all sorts of odd things with NetApps just because they can - and don't get me wrong, I love my F740 - but this is just plain crazy. For your own peace of mind, don't do it.
So the netapp still chokes on lots of active small files i.e. like usenet news, etc? We were thinking about turning ours into a hardcore news spool..but I remember a few years ago there was some issue with the millions of < 64KB file sizes..
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On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Martin Hannigan wrote:
So the netapp still chokes on lots of active small files i.e. like usenet news, etc? We were thinking about turning ours into a hardcore news spool..but I remember a few years ago there was some issue with the millions of < 64KB file sizes..
Is news so important to you that you would put it on a filer? That's one thing I stick to JBOD... price out two terabytes of usable storage on 50GB or 72GB drives in decent enclosures over U2SCSI or FibreChannel, and compare it to an F760 with the same amount of space. If you're concerned with performance of millions of small files, switch to a different storage model... it will almost certainly be cheaper than a big Netapp.
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