I have an Exchange 2003 server running on Windows Server 2003 that is running out of space on the system partition. I have a RAID 5 configuration. I want to replace the drives with larger ones and resize the partitions in the process. I had two thoughts as a way to do this. One would be to...
my new two 500 gb drive system has drive one setup as raid 0 with an indication of C: and D: drives of 250 gbs each and no other drives listed. Where is the other 500 gbs
My new server has 3 x 146GB SAS 15k 3.5" HD, which came pre-configured as RAID 5, and 2x 73GB SAS 15k 3.5" HD, which came as RAID 1. Should I leave this configuration as is or should I change it?
What do EMC recommend as best practices for number of disks in a raid group for RAID 6, (8+2) with SATA drives with A CX3 Clariion array?
I had to replace my boot drive. Reinstalled Win XP. System found all the drives, but I can not access the RAID. BIOS loads the Adaptec 1200 Raid, I guess from the PCI Card. In Device Mgr, it sees two identical drives RAID 0, but I can not access them. What am I doing wrong? How can I get the...
One of my VIP end users (a senior scientist in our building) has put in a request for the following setup: He wants us to build him 2 8-TB file servers, identical in design. This is not a problem, I've done this already for our own use. One server will be in his lab for their use. He wants the...
I am having software raids harddisk mirrored on windows 2000 server, can this restarts server saying physical dumping of memory. Any other problem can it create.
I have Exchange 2003 in my domain, and I'm running out of storage. I have done 2 defragments for the databases already (I did that on another computer by copying the edb and stm files, defragment them and then move them back to place). But now I'm running out of space again. I have no room for HDD...
We have 70+ users connecting almost 125 machines to connect to an Intel 5000VSA 4dimm Board Server with 2 Xeon processors, 6 SATA (on-board RAID 0, 5 or 10), 1 IDE port. I want to put the best possible RAID with 200/250GB SATA drives, with Best Redundancy and Performance, irrespective of the cost....
We are implementing Microsoft Exchange on a EMC DMX3500 DASD Subsystem that has 146GB and 300GBs. Talked to Gartner Group Consultant Bob Passmore and he is strongly recommending RAID 1: his justification is based on the fact that RAID 1 is double the number of disk drives; therefore you cut what...
I will be upgrading my computer components with a new motherboard and currently have a RAID-0 setup with my old mb's built-in Promise FastTrak 378 controller. I also have a Promise FastTrak TX4310 pci card controller with another RAID-0 setup. Both have two drives each. Will I lose data on either...
Hi friends, I am a fresher in this field with not much knowledge. Have been asked by my office to install exchange 2007. The question i have is , what server would be good to install exchange 2007 on, also what raid is preferred / recommended. Are there any sites i could have the installation...
Been a long while since I've worked with Windows, and the networking metaphor is killing me (Unix here...). I have in a server room a Win 2003 server with a large RAID. There are 4 XP machines in 2 offices, all on the same LAN/subnet (2003 server is DHCP server for the XP machines). The network is...
Hi, I have just built a system using a Gigabyte GA-73VM-S2 Motherboard using nVidia SATA Raid. I attached 2 500Gb Samsung SATA2 drives, downloaded the SATA Raid drivers for Vista from nVidia and created a Mirrored Raid array with them, then installed Windows Vista Business. The install appeared...
I am working on Windows 2000 server having raid configured on it. I want to know how best i can maintain our server uptodate with minimum downtime. Also how to confirm whether hardware or software raid configured.
I have a situation where I have to image/install or reinstall Exchange 2007 running on a Windows Software mirror and it has drastically degraded the performance and has hung the server numerous times and then we have to do a hard reset on the box. How can I transfer the complete HD from that...
We have an extra Compaq BA370 with a hsz70 controller card is there a way to configure this device to work with a current version of windows? Thanks
Hi All How we configure RAiD Controllor configurtion & other settings on HP Proliant Server Without HP Smart CD. Thanks in Advanced


