Exchange 2007 Servers

[Deathwish]

Got the job of figuring out the best hardware for our upcoming Exchange 2007 project and so far I have come up with:

HP ProLiant ML370 G5 458342-421
- 2x Quad-Core 3Ghz
- Memory Board 403766-B21
- 4Gb System Memory
- 4Gb Add System Memory
- 4Gb Add System Memory
- 4Gb Add System Memory
- P400 RAID w/512Mb BBWC
- P800 RAID w/512Mb BBWC 381513-B21
- P400 RAID w/512Mb BBWC 411064-B21
- SAS Drive Cage 401415-B21
- 2x 146Gb 10k rpm SAS 418367-B21
- 6x 72Gb 15k rpm SAS 418371-B21
- 14x 72Gb 15k rpm SAS 418371-B21
- StorWorks MSA70 AG767AM

And for the HUB/CAS combined role:

HP ProLiant DL360 G5 470064-615
- 1x Quad-Core 2.83Ghz
- 2Gb System Memory
- 4Gb Add System Memory
- P400 RAID w/256Mb BBWC
- 4x 146Gb 10k rpm SAS 418367-B21


We have approx 2200 email users and doing some analysis and some usage of the Ex2007 spreadsheet planner from MS we need about 900 IOPS for the DB and 400 for the Logs (Outlook 2007 Cached Mode, and no Crackberry).

Any thoughts?

 

[Deathwish]

oddjob: This is half of a CCR setup

Teledude: No virtualization here yet, and it would probably be Hyper-V when it does appear.

Nikumba: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=84202

 

[Deathwish]

Any other opinions?

 

[Deathwish]

I thought it was light as well, but I was trusting it

We cap our users to 100mb Inbox size and have Email Achieving in place. I'll have another look into it, thanks