Thoughts??

[gsswho6n]

Please let me know what you guys think... Still trying to get a good answer on hardware specs for my 3 SMS servers that I will be purchasing. Keep in mind that these 3 servers (1 primary and 2 Secondary) will be supporting only 1200 nodes across the WAN. Each machine will probably be about a 3ghz with 1gb of ram.

Primary server-- (4) 146gb Hard Drives RAID 5 (400 total users)
Secondary Server -- (4) 146gb Hard Drives RAID 5 (400 total users)
Secondary Server -- (4) 146gb Hard Drives RAID 5(400 total users)


Should I go RAID 5 or is that a waste? Should I just slap 2 146gb drives in all 3 and just run RAID1? Also do I need to just backup the Primary or all 3? I just dont want to waste money where it is not needed. But I also dont want to run out of space in 1 year..

I realize that I will need to get some pretty hefty space for my dist. points. Does the Primary and Sec Sites need to be about the same size in space? I mean can I push the files to the DP from the Site and then delete it from the Site to save space?

Thanks again... Let me know if you need any more info.

 

[tbrennans]

if one channel with Hardware controller then

one array (RAID 5) partitioned into volumes OS, SQL, SMS, and logs

if two channels with HD controller then
Channel 1 RAID 1 (OS)
Channel 1 RAID 5 (SQL)

Channel 2 RAID 5 (Logs)
Channel 2 RAID 5 (SMS)

The Proc duals on the Primary, the secondary doesnt need much horse power at all, the hd array doesnt need to be much either as its not really doing a lot on the secondary, remember advanced clients dont really talk to the secondaries anyway.

 

[tbrennans]

Once again look at this and see if it helps...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...30-bded-4b95-a8f9-06037de85c57&displaylang=en

 

[gsswho6n]

Ok so I will go dual Xeon with 4 146gb HD's RAID 5 for the Primary server. Probably just go Single Processor 3 ghz with 2 146gb HD's RAID 1. This seem ok to you?

Please explain to me again why I wont be using the secondary's much? When I create a package or whatever does it push it straight to the Dist. Point and not the Secondary sites? If so then the Sec. sites dont need hardly anything correct?

Also do I need to worry much about backing up the secondary sites or should I stick with just backing up the Primary for now?

Thanks again.