Author: "Kevin Whittaker" <Kevin.Whittaker AT syniverse DOT com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:17:21 -0400
All, I have 2 Exchange 2003 servers, both running Server 2003 SP2. I will have to admit I don't know much about the 2003 exchange setup, but I was told that they are on the latest patches for Exchang
Author: "WEAVER, Simon (external)" <simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:18:40 +0100
Hi Well my Ex2k3 is a SAN Media - get approx 60 - 80GB+ - I backup the information store policy and it uses one drive. You can use the * at the end to stream the stores (which sounds like the route v
Author: "Kevin Whittaker" <Kevin.Whittaker AT syniverse DOT com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:36:11 -0400
1) I checked and there is no tracker.exe running. 2) There is no AV running on it. Checked event logs and only found entries about backing up specific files under the information store. Network speed
Author: "WEAVER, Simon (external)" <simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:13:33 +0100
kevin Forgot to ask, what sort of disks are the DB's on? High speed fibre, or SCSI Internal drives or hot swappable? Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS As
Author: "Kevin Whittaker" <Kevin.Whittaker AT syniverse DOT com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:18:34 -0400
EMC DMX3000 disk..... I would have to ask the disk fairies what type of disk, but I believe it is the high end EMC disk. They have their own Disk SAN setup with 2 fiber connections to ever server. Fr
Author: "WEAVER, Simon (external)" <simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:11:29 +0100
Kevin the comment about Network speed was me saying it sounds almost like its running over the LAN - it was the sort of speeds I would have expected to see over the network, but not fibre (SSO). The
Author: "WEAVER, Simon (external)" <simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:32:23 +0100
Ok fiber is very, very good, because that is what I use (very similar, but all HP branded). spoken to Veritas on what changes they made?? Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain
Author: "Kevin Whittaker" <Kevin.Whittaker AT syniverse DOT com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:38:42 -0400
Yes, when we speed it up we played with the buffer settings. When I started this 6 months ago, they said only professional services could help me. But I will say that the guy that came in did help, b
Author: "Paul Keating" <pkeating AT bank-banque-canada DOT ca>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:56:57 -0400
Those 9940B drives should be good for a 262144 buffer size, unless there's still some windows limitation....though I believe that limitation was for the built in windows driver. you should be fine wi
Author: "Jeff Lightner" <jlightner AT water DOT com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:58:30 -0400
EMC DMX only does fibre – earlier Symmetrix models would do SCSI connections. EMC Clariion gives choice of fibre or ATA drives but the array itself would be fibre (SAN) connected to the hosts i
Author: "WEAVER, Simon (external)" <simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:02:24 +0100
What configuration are the disks - ask the fairies I guess :-) RAID5 for the DB's and RAID1 for logs, ect? Regards Simon Weaver3rd Line Technical SupportWindows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limi
Author: "Clooney, David" <david.clooney AT bankofamerica DOT com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:52:31 +0100
We too use 262144 buffer size with 9940B’s, and achieve in excess of 50mb/sec on exchange backups, albeit on HDS. The blocksize limitation is a windows 2003 SP1 issue that is overcome by insta