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Dell PowerVault 770N (Deskside NAS Appliance) User Manual

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Planning a Deployment

Feature Pack Deployment Guide

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Figure 1.2 Recommended Configuration for the Medium-Capacity Scenario

Medium-Capacity Disk Drive Configuration

The medium-capacity disk drive configuration stores the Exchange databases on a RAID-5
volume that spans four disk drives on the Windows Storage Server computer.

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The medium-capacity disk drive configuration stores the Exchange databases and transaction
logs on separate RAID volumes that span separate disk arrays (if available) on the Windows
Storage Server computer. This configuration conforms with Exchange best practices guidelines.

Medium-Capacity Network Configuration

As shown in Figure 1.2, the dedicated Gigabit network controls the traffic between the Windows
Storage Server computer and the Exchange server.