American Megatrends StorTrends 3200i Install Manual page 11

Configuration Diagram
Dell R905,Windows 2003 server x64bit
Microsoft Exchange Jetstress 2007
600 Users – 200MB Mailbox - 0.45 IOPS
StorTrends 3200i, iTX 2.7 (single storage controller)
Data LUN
300 GB
RAID 10
NIC 2
8 DISKS
1 SPARE
AMI StorTrends 3200i iSCSI Storage Configuration for ESRP
Testing
For transaction mailbox DATA store 1 RAID 10 group, for LOG store 1 RAID
1 group , for BACKUP store 1 RAID 5 that provides performance and
capacity.1 dedicated spare disk to each of the group provides adequate
protection against single disk failure.
RAID Disk Group 1: RAID10 8 Disk Drives, 500GB SATA, 7200 RPM
RAID Disk Group 2: RAID1 2 Disk Drives, 500GB SATA, 7200 RPM
RAID Disk Group 3: RAID 5 3 Disk Drives, 500GB SATA, 7200 RPM
Multi Pathing I/O
NIC
1
NIC
NIC
2
1
iSCSI Block Protocol Service
Log LUN
10 GB
RAID 1
NIC 2
2 DISKS
1 SPARE
NIC
2
Gigabit
Switches
Backup LUN
400 GB
RAID 5
NIC 2
3 DISKS
1 SPARE
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