Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS Appliance Storage Solution for 1200 Mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange 2007

Ryan Pratt, November 2007

Introduction

This document describes a Microsoft Exchange primary storage solution using the Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS Appliance. The targeted number of users in this environment is 1200.

The Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS Appliance provides a great performance/price ratio in a Microsoft Exchange environment, and it also serves the needs of any NFS, CIFS, file, print, or iSCSI attached application.

For more details, see the list of contents below.

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For More Information

For Exchange 2007 best practices on storage design, please visit Exchange 2007 Planning Storage Configurations.

Here are additional Sun resources:

• Sun training courses at http://www.sun.com/training/, for example, Sun StorageTek 5000 NAS Administration (NWS-3400)
• Support:
  • Sun Services and Solutions
  • SunSolve Online
• Discussions, such as the Storage Forums (available from the Hardware tab)
• Related documents at http://docs.sun.com:
  • Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS Appliance and Gateway System Getting Started Guide (pdf)
  • Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS Appliance and Gateway System Administration Guide (pdf)
  • Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS Appliance Setup (pdf)
• Storage Administration Wiki
• Related web sites:
  • Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS Appliance web site
  • BigAdmin Storage Resource Collection

Contents

• Introduction
  • About the Program
  • Disclaimer
• Solution Description
  • RAID Module LUNs
  • Volumes
  • iSCSI LUNs
  • Tested Configuration
  • Targeted Customer Profile
  • Tested Deployment
• Best Practices
• Contact for Additional Information
• Test Result Summary
  • Reliability
  • Primary Storage Performance
• Conclusion
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