Exchange 2007 Hardware Specs (Feedback Please)
We're in the process of purchasing a new Windows Server 2008 to host our Exchange Server 2007. Yes we know Exchange 2010 is available but we're not going to use that yet.
The new server will host about 45 mailboxes ranging from less than 1GB to about 8GB in size. They're currently hosted on an Exchange Server 2003 which will eventually be moved to the new server. Our daily transaction logs activity is about 1GB which is flushed
every night when full Exchange db backup runs.
This is what we have in mind:
Dell PowerEdge T410
12GB Memory (3x4GB), 1333MHz Dual Ranked RDIMMs
Intel Xeon E5607, 2.26GHz, 8M Cache, 4 Cores
Single Processor Only
146GB 15K RPM Serial-Attach SCSI 3Gbps 3.5in Hotplug Hard Drive
RAID 10 configuration
Is the above config acceptable for our environment? Should we just configure 1 huge partition for both OS and Exchange transaction logs + database? Or should we set aside 50GB (for example) for OS + transaction logs and another partition for Exchange
database?
We need feedback from Exchange experts. Thanks much.
June 8th, 2011 6:20pm