Specifications

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APPENDIX C  STORAGE CONFIGURATION FOR PERFORMANCE TESTING
We followed the configuration steps for each of the storage solutions as outlined in Appendix E. For our testing,
we placed the Failover Manager (FOM) for the HP D2200sb + VSA solution directly on one of the two nodes to establish
quorum without affecting power utilization. In a real-world environment, you should deploy the FOM onto another
server connected to the iSCSI network to ensure that it remains active in the event that one of the VSA nodes loses
connectivity or goes offline. For each solution, we configured the storage with the volumes listed below.
 Exchange Data 1 – 150GB
 Exchange Data 2 – 150GB
 Exchange Data 3 – 150GB
 Exchange Data 4– 150GB
 Exchange Log 1– 10GB
 Exchange Log 2– 10GB
 Exchange Log 3– 10GB
 Exchange Log 4– 10GB
 Exchange Backup – 500GB
 SQL Data 1 – 100GB
 SQL Data 2 – 100GB
 SQL Data 3 – 100GB
 SQL Data 4 – 100GB
 SQL Logs – 100GB
 SQL Backup – 200GB
 SharePoint Data – 200GB
 SharePoint Backup – 200GB