
Microsoft Exchange 2010 on Dell Systems: Simple Distributed Configurations
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Multi-role (Mailbox/Hub/CAS) server
2 x PowerEdge R720xd server with 2.5‖ drive bays
2 x Intel
®
Xeon
®
processor E5-2600 product family (8
cores)
96GB of DDR3 RAM
Number of Active and Passive
Mailboxes per Server
5,000 active and 5,000 passive
2x PowerEdge R720xd server internal storage
4 rear–end drives for Operating System ( 2 each server)
40 drives for data and log ( 20 each server )
4 drives for Hot Spares ( 2 per server )
4 drives for Restore LUNs ( 2 per server )
PERC H710P— Internal RAID controller
Data volumes per mailbox server
10 (5 active + 5 passive)
2.5‖ SAS 10K RPM 900GB for data
2.5‖ SAS 10K RPM 300GB SAS for OS
RAID 1— Exchange data volumes
RAID 1— Operating System volume
RAID 0—Restore LUN
Databases and logs on same volume
Stripe size = 256KB or greater
NTFS allocation unit size = 64 KB
Redundant switch configuration; Private and Public
networks configured as VLANs.
Hardware load balancer required for balancing load
among CAS servers.
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