Storage Solutions for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server

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Published: August 18, 2000 | Updated : October 2, 2003

By Michele Martin, Jon Hoerlein

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As you plan your storage strategy for Microsoft® Exchange 2000 or any other application that stores important data, you must balance three criteria: capacity, availability, and performance. The choices you make as you plan and implement your storage solution affect the cost associated with administration and maintenance of your Exchange 2000 environment. Before you design your storage solution for Exchange 2000, determine how your company prioritizes these three criteria, especially when considering a balance between availability and performance.

This article discusses the principles of designing an Exchange 2000 storage solution. This article also compares two common storage solutions: storage area networks (SANs) and network-attached storage (NAS). However, this article does not provide procedures for configuring and deploying Exchange 2000 storage solutions, nor does it discuss storage from a clustering perspective—although the principles outlined in this article are applicable to a clustered version of Exchange. This article focuses mainly on mailbox storage, but the principles and concepts apply to public folder storage as well.

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Authors: Michele Martin and Jon Hoerlein

Publication Date: August 2000; updated June 2002 and October 2003

Number of Pages: 15

Table of Contents

  • Planning a Storage Solution

  • Overview of Storage Technologies

  • Placing Exchange Data on the Storage Device

  • Additional Resources

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