
Microsoft Exchange 2010 on Dell Systems: Simple Distributed Configurations
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Recommended Solution
Multi-role (Mailbox/Hub/CAS) server
9 x PowerEdge R720xd server with 3.5‖ drive bays
2 x Intel
®
Xeon
®
processor E5-2600 product family (8
cores)
Central Site servers: 96GB of DDR3 RAM
Remote Site servers: 128GB of DDR3 RAM
9 (6 servers at Central Site & 3 servers at Remote Site)
Number of Active and Passive
Mailboxes per Server
Central Site: 4172 Active and 4172 Passive
Remote Site: 8344 Passive
9 x PowerEdge R720xd internal storage and 36 x
PowerVault MD1200 (4 x PowerVault MD1200 connected
to each PowerEdge R720xd)
18 x 2.5‖ drives for Operating System ( 2 each server)
504 x 3.5‖ drives for data (56 each server)
9 X Hot Spare ( 1 per server )
9 X Restore LUN ( 1 per server )
PERC H810 - External RAID controller
PERC H710P – Internal RAID controller
Data volumes per mailbox server
3 TB 3.5" NL-SAS 7.2K RPM for data and log
300GB 2.5‖ SAS 10K RPM for Operating System
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 = 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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