Has anyone here attempted to store their MS Exchange data store on a ZFS pool? If so, could you please tell me about your setup? A friend is looking for a NAS solution, and may be interested in a ZFS box instead of a netapp or something like that. Thanks.
On 9/6/07 2:51 PM, "Joe S" <js.lists at gmail.com> wrote:> Has anyone here attempted to store their MS Exchange data store on a > ZFS pool? If so, could you please tell me about your setup? A friend > is looking for a NAS solution, and may be interested in a ZFS box > instead of a netapp or something like that.I don''t see why it wouldn''t using zvols and iscsi. We use iscsi in our rather large exchange implementation - not backed by zfs but I don''t see why it couldn''t be. PS no "NAS" solution will work for exchange will it? You have to use DAS/SAN or iscsi afaik. -Andy> > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss--
Microsoft have a document you should read: "Optimizing Storage for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003" http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/e/0/be072b12-9c30-4e00-952d-c7d0d7bcea5f/StoragePerformance.doc Microsoft also have a utility "JetStress" which you can use to verify the performance of the storage system. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=94b9810b-670e-433a-b5ef-b47054595e9c&displaylang=en I think you can use Jetstress on a non-exchange server if you copy across some of the Exchange DLLs. If you do any testing along these lines, please report success or failure back to this forum, and on the ''Storage-discuss'' forum where these sort of questions are more usually discussed. Thanks Nigel Smith This message posted from opensolaris.org