New Servers

[Millgate]

Hi Daz,

 

If you want to run this past HP, Dell or whoever else, let me know and I'll arrange a conf call. Get the info straight from the horses mouth!

 

Cheers

[sukh]

I am not sure, it is only for around 650 mailboxes

 

1. You can coexist the roles with 2010 so I;d put all mbx/cas/hub across 2 servers for 650 users. Configure a CAS array and for CAS server use DAG for the MBX server.

[plexer]

Most of what you probably want to know is here - http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01451157/c01451157.pdf

 

Basically think dual port SAS allows multiple redundant routes to data in a Smart Array.

 

Thanks for that it's a good document but I am also interested in your real world experience and actual products used along with guide prices.

 

Ta.

 

Ben

[jamesfed]

Thanks for that it's a good document but I am also interested in your real world experience and actual products used along with guide prices.

 

Ta.

 

Ben

Basicly our setup is 2x HP DL165 G7s with a P812 1GB FBWC and a D2600 with 8x 15k 300GB SAS drives (RAID0+1)

The setup is so insanely fast (but then again I've never seen a SAN in action so I'm only comparing against what I know).

 

I think the 2x P812s, D2600 and drives came to a little over £4000.