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October 3rd, 2010 05:00

CX4-120 LUN Sizing for Exchange VM's

We have EMC CX4-120 Storage and 2 vSphere 4.1 Hosts, i am planning 5 VM's in this 2 hosts all are vmdk's no RDM, no Replication.

Configuration of the VM's

1. Win2k8 r2_x64_std /Exchange 2010 Std 4 VCPU's 8GB RAM, OS Disk 50GB, DB 75GB,

2. Win2k8 r2_x64_std /Exchange 2010 Std 4 VCPU's 8GB RAM, OS Disk 50GB, DB 75GB,

3. Win2k8 r2_x64_std /Exchange 2010 Std 4 VCPU's 8GB RAM, OS Disk 50GB, DB 75GB,

4. Win2k8 r2_x64_std /Exchange 2010 Ent 4 VCPU's 8GB RAM, OS Disk 50GB, DB 100GB, Log 100 GB,

5. Win2k8 r2_x64_std /Exchange 2010 Ent 4 VCPU's 8GB RAM, OS Disk 50GB, DB 100GB, Log 100 GB


in the storage i want to create 3 Different LUN's


1. OS LUN (Raid5) 5 x 50 =250 GB

2. DB LUN (Raid1+0) 3 x 75 =225 GB, 2 x 100 = 200 Total 425 GB

3. Log LUN (Raid1+0) 2 x 100 = 200 GB


Now Suggest me how much LUN Size i need to create for above requirement and suggest me best practices from Storage point of view and vSphere.


Thanks

VijayRaj

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October 6th, 2010 02:00

Hi,

usually you should use a different approach to size an environment to your needs.

You should start with the IO load your environment needs to handle as this will be the major point for a storage array.

And the sizing doesn't differ between a virtual and a physical server.

Therefor you should check the following document which is published on the Mircosoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) -Storage v3.0 website.

EMC CLARiiON CX4-120 1,000 Mailbox Exchange 2010 Mailbox Resiliency Storage Solution (Jun 7, 2010)

HTH

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