
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
2 x Intel
®
Xeon
®
processor E5-2600 product family (8
cores)
64GB of DDR3 RAM
Number of Active and Passive
Mailboxes per Server
2500 Active and 2500 Passive
2 x PowerEdge R720xd internal storage and 4 x
PowerVault MD1200 (2 MD1200 connected to each
R720xd)
4 x 2.5‖ drives for Operating System ( 2 each server)
68 x 3.5‖ drives for data (34 each server)
2 X Hot Spare ( 1 per server )
2 X Restore LUN ( 1 per server )
PERC H810 - External RAID controller
PERC H710P – Internal RAID controller
Data volumes per mailbox server
3.5‖ NL-SAS 7.2K rpm 3TB for data
2.5‖ SAS 10K 300GB for OS
RAID 1 – Exchange data and Log volumes
RAID 1- Operating System
RAID 0 for Restore LUN
Databases and logs on same volume
Stripe size = 256KB or greater
NTFS allocation unit size = 64KB
NOTE: Hot Spare shared for external storage only
Redundant switch configuration; Private and Public
networks configured as VLANs.
Hardware load balancer required for balancing load
among CAS servers.
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