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So recently my Exchange has been showing performance alerts on the CPU side and I thought it is time to migrate the setup to a more "beefy" server.
Currently it's running on the following:
Intel Xeon X3460 2.80GHz
32GB RAM
Intel RS2BL080 RAID Controller:
Want to move it to this:
2x Intel Xeon E5520 2.27GHz
48GB RAM
Intel RS2BL080 RAID Controller:
OR
2x 1TB SATA RAID 1 split for OS and pagefile (800GB for OS, 200GB for pagefile), 2x 500GB SATA RAID 1 for Logs, 8x 300GB SAS RAID 10 for EDB
Our EDB is around 401GB, it's a single server setup, no budget for any additional hardware which also explains the out dated hardware. Sadly that won't be changing anytime soon.
What do you guys think?
Currently it's running on the following:
Intel Xeon X3460 2.80GHz
32GB RAM
Intel RS2BL080 RAID Controller:
- 2x 500GB SATA RAID 1(OS & pagefile)
- 2x 1TB SATA RAID 1 (log files)
- 5x 600GB SAS RAID 10 (edb)
Want to move it to this:
2x Intel Xeon E5520 2.27GHz
48GB RAM
Intel RS2BL080 RAID Controller:
- 6x 600GB SAS
- 8x 300GB SAS
OR
2x 1TB SATA RAID 1 split for OS and pagefile (800GB for OS, 200GB for pagefile), 2x 500GB SATA RAID 1 for Logs, 8x 300GB SAS RAID 10 for EDB
Our EDB is around 401GB, it's a single server setup, no budget for any additional hardware which also explains the out dated hardware. Sadly that won't be changing anytime soon.
What do you guys think?
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Thank you, will setup as suggested.
And on that note, is there a performance benefit to having the transport queue on its own array?