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Bill Bradley
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Wed Aug 24, 2005 6:10 am Post subject:
Best way to setup a large amount of storage |
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I currently use clustered Win2K3w/SP1 servers on a XioTech SAN for my Shared
and Home folder storage. We intend to start using roaming profiles, and, I
figure I'll need 4-6 TB for my 1200 users.
I originally setup an array of 750 GB, and, am wondering the best strategy
to increase this--should I just make it bigger (up to 4 TB or whatever the
upper Win2K3 limit is), or, should I use multiple ~1 TB arrays?
I've played around with using DiskPart, and, it seems to work well in
increasing the volume size, after I "grow" the array...
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Pat [MSFT]
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Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:17 pm Post subject:
Re: Best way to setup a large amount of storage |
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Win2k3SP1 can go to 256TB per LUN _if_ the underlying controllers, storage,
& drivers support it. You'd need to check w/the specific vendors on their
support.
As to the size of each LUN, that really depends. The larger the LUN, the
longer the maintenance (backup/restore, etc.). Multiple 1TB arrays,
leveraging DFS is a good tradeoff and would more likely to survive an
outage - i.e. if you lost 1 LUN, the others would continue to run fine.
Pat
"Bill Bradley" <wdbradley3@comcast.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | I currently use clustered Win2K3w/SP1 servers on a XioTech SAN for my
Shared and Home folder storage. We intend to start using roaming profiles,
and, I figure I'll need 4-6 TB for my 1200 users.
I originally setup an array of 750 GB, and, am wondering the best strategy
to increase this--should I just make it bigger (up to 4 TB or whatever the
upper Win2K3 limit is), or, should I use multiple ~1 TB arrays?
I've played around with using DiskPart, and, it seems to work well in
increasing the volume size, after I "grow" the array...
Thanks.
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Bill Bradley
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Fri Aug 26, 2005 7:13 am Post subject:
Re: Best way to setup a large amount of storage |
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That's what I thought, too...
Thanks!
"Pat [MSFT]" <patfilot@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:OH5ms1LqFHA.2968@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
| Quote: | Win2k3SP1 can go to 256TB per LUN _if_ the underlying controllers,
storage, & drivers support it. You'd need to check w/the specific vendors
on their support.
As to the size of each LUN, that really depends. The larger the LUN, the
longer the maintenance (backup/restore, etc.). Multiple 1TB arrays,
leveraging DFS is a good tradeoff and would more likely to survive an
outage - i.e. if you lost 1 LUN, the others would continue to run fine.
Pat
"Bill Bradley" <wdbradley3@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:O0YAqiEqFHA.3104@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
I currently use clustered Win2K3w/SP1 servers on a XioTech SAN for my
Shared and Home folder storage. We intend to start using roaming
profiles, and, I figure I'll need 4-6 TB for my 1200 users.
I originally setup an array of 750 GB, and, am wondering the best
strategy to increase this--should I just make it bigger (up to 4 TB or
whatever the upper Win2K3 limit is), or, should I use multiple ~1 TB
arrays?
I've played around with using DiskPart, and, it seems to work well in
increasing the volume size, after I "grow" the array...
Thanks.
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JC
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Sun Aug 28, 2005 4:16 pm Post subject:
Re: Best way to setup a large amount of storage |
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Hi,
Remember to do backup ie offline storage.
It is really painful when something happen to the online storage .
What backup are U using?
rgds
JC |
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Bill Bradley
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Mon Aug 29, 2005 4:17 pm Post subject:
Re: Best way to setup a large amount of storage |
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CommVault. We have a tape library that does Full backups nightly, and, we
take them offsite the next day.
"JC" <Jhayi22@gmail.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Hi,
Remember to do backup ie offline storage.
It is really painful when something happen to the online storage .
What backup are U using?
rgds
JC
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