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This article is part of the February 2011, Vol. 8 issue of Prepping BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Exchange 2010 SP1
Over the past decade, storage area network (SAN) products with Fibre Channel switches and cabling have had network administrators drooling. But times are changing. A new, more cost-conscious economy has Exchange Server admins looking at cheaper disk options that can still maintain performance. This shift means that IT teams must be re-educated on which applications are supported, what kind of performance to expect and which best practices should be put in place. Supported storage architectures First and foremost, Exchange Server 2010 doesn’t support the network-area storage (NAS); however, the server does support Fibre Channel (FC) SANs and iSCSI SANs, as well as direct-attached storage (DAS) using SAS or SATA-class disks. And although Exchange 2010 supports the more expensive storage options, it was designed specifically to work with lower cost RAID and RAID-less JBODs. Obviously, each enterprise has its own needs, but the Microsoft Exchange team notes that all organizations have “the ability to deploy large mailboxes at low cost” because of the company’s ... Access >>>
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Accepting Exchange 2010 storage redesigns
by J. Peter Bruzzese, Contributor
The push to cheaper storage, the removal of SIS and larger mailboxes are just a few Exchange 2010 storage changes that make some admins uneasy.
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Accepting Exchange 2010 storage redesigns
by J. Peter Bruzzese, Contributor
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