
Microsoft Exchange 2010 on Dell Systems: Simple Distributed Configurations
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Recommended Solution
Multi-role (Mailbox/Hub/CAS) server
2x PowerEdge R720xd servers with 3.5‖ drive bays
2x Intel
®
Xeon
®
processor E5-2600 product family (6 core
or better per processor)
48GB of DDR3 RAM
Number of Active and Passive
Mailboxes per Server
1,250 active and 1,250 passive
2x PowerEdge R720xd internal storage and
2x PowerVault MD1200; 48 data drives total.
4 back accessible drives for Operating System( 2 each
server)
20 drives for data and log ( 10 each server )
4 Hotspare drives ( 2 each server)
4 Restore LUN drives ( 2 each server)
PERC H710P— Internal RAID controller
Database volumes per mailbox server
10 (5 active + 5 passive)
3.5‖ 7.2K RPM NL SAS – 2TB
RAID 1—Operating System volumes
RAID 1—Exchange data volumes
RAID 0—Restore LUN
Databases and logs on same volume
NTFS allocation unit size = 64KB
RAID stripe size = 256KB or greater
Redundant switch configuration; Private and Public
networks configured as VLANs.
Hardware load balancer required for balancing load
among CAS servers.
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