
Microsoft Exchange 2010 on Dell Systems: Simple Distributed Configurations
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Recommended Solution
Multi-role (Mailbox/Hub/CAS) server
2 x Dell PowerEdge R720xd servers with 3.5‖ drive bays
2 x Intel
®
Xeon
®
processor E5-2600 product family (6
core or better per processor)
48GB of DDR3 Memory
Number of Active and Passive Mailboxes
per Server
Server 1: 900 active and 600 passive
Server 2: 600 active and 900 passive
2 x PowerEdge R720xd server internal storage
4 back accessible drives for Operating System ( 2 each
server)
20 data drives total ( 10 each server )
2 Hot Spares (1 each server)
2 Restore LUN (1 each server)
PERC H710P - Internal RAID controller
Data volumes per mailbox server
5
Server 1: 3 active and 2 passive
Server 2: 2 active and 3 passive
3.5" NL-SAS 7.2 K 2TB for data
2.5‖ SAS 10K 300GB for OS
RAID 1— Exchange Data volume
RAID 1—Operating System volume
RAID 0 – Restore LUN
Databases and logs on the same volume
1 database and log set per drive
Stripe size = 512KB
NTFS allocation unit size = 64KB
Redundant switch configuration; Private and Public
networks configured as VLANs.
Hardware load balancer required for balancing load
among CAS servers
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