
Microsoft Exchange 2010 on Dell Systems: Simple Distributed Configurations
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Recommended Solution
Multi-role (Mailbox/Hub/CAS) server
2 x PowerEdge R720xd server with 3.5‖ drive bays
2 x Intel
®
Xeon
®
processor E5-2600 product family (8
cores)
32GB of DDR3 RAM
Number of Active and Passive
Mailboxes per Server
1,000 active and 1,000 passive
2x PowerEdge R720xd server internal storage
4 back-accesible drives for Operating System ( 2 each
server)
20 drives for data and log ( 10 each server )
2 drives for Hot Spares ( 1 per server )
2 drives for Restore LUNs ( 1 per 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 7.2K RPM 3 TB for data
2.5‖ SAS 10K RPM 300GB for OS
RAID 1—Exchange data volume
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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