iSCSI in the Real-World

re: iSCSI in the Real-World

Joel Swanson — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 23:53:31 GMT

We are in the midst of deploying an iSCSI solution from Lefthand Networks. We have 8 NSM 150's that we will be using to support a 2-node active/passive Exchange 2003 cluster with approximately 14,000 users. We will have a starting total store size of around 400GB, but will likely grow to 800GB - 1TB within a year as we will be increasing storage limits.

It will be in full production in roughly 1 month.

re: iSCSI in the Real-World

BryceMilton — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 19:55:15 GMT

Interesting... I know the IP7500 doesn't have any ready to go Exchange storage profiles yet, but I suspect that'd be one of the first few things we'd be interested in fixing. Rick Nichols, our Intransa rep, would be thrilled to get that one ready for his customers.

Has anyone run AD(or ADAM) where the db and logs are on an iSCSI device?

Eric Fleischman's WebLog — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:11:15 GMT

Over on his blog, my mgr Bryce mentions the new iSCSI evaluation going on here in the EEC. I for one...

re: iSCSI in the Real-World

John Wilkins — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 00:16:18 GMT

We deployed a Network Appliance iSCSI target for our Exchange 2003 environment. We upgraded from Exchange 5.5 and it works great. It was pretty easy to install and the migration wasn't too bad either.