Moving Exchange2003 specific Storage Groups to separate LUNs

extron · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 4

I have a question concerning whether I can separate specific Storage
group/message stores onto separate LUNS/spindles on our SAN?

Currently the LUN which holds all four of our Storage Groups is approaching
6% of free disk space so to rectify the storage from running out I've
attached a new 300GB LUN. By the way the new LUNs also dependent on SA as a
physical disk cluster resource so that in the event of a failure this new LUN
will be failed-over to the passive node.

I have already attempted to move specific Storage Groups to the new LUN but
when I attempt to move a 35GB .STM to the new LUN it seems to hang. Is this
normal due to it's size because strangely it does copy on the new LUN the the
same .STM and Windows does report it's 35GB.

Is it really of matter of me waiting for the move process to finish and/or
how long should I wait for it to finish processing?

The documentation I fumbled through is kind of vague and misleading on the
issue of how long the move takes so any one's feedback here is much
appreciated.

Exchange 2003 EE SP2
Windows 2003 EE SP1 W/latest updates/fixes, etc

Archived from group: microsoft>public>exchange2000>information>store

Leif Pedersen [MVP] · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 193

Hi,

See my reply in the general NG.

Leif

"extron" wrote in message @microsoft.com...
>I have a question concerning whether I can separate specific Storage
> group/message stores onto separate LUNS/spindles on our SAN?
>
> Currently the LUN which holds all four of our Storage Groups is
> approaching
> 6% of free disk space so to rectify the storage from running out I've
> attached a new 300GB LUN. By the way the new LUNs also dependent on SA as
> a
> physical disk cluster resource so that in the event of a failure this new
> LUN
> will be failed-over to the passive node.
>
> I have already attempted to move specific Storage Groups to the new LUN
> but
> when I attempt to move a 35GB .STM to the new LUN it seems to hang. Is
> this
> normal due to it's size because strangely it does copy on the new LUN the
> the
> same .STM and Windows does report it's 35GB.
>
> Is it really of matter of me waiting for the move process to finish and/or
> how long should I wait for it to finish processing?
>
> The documentation I fumbled through is kind of vague and misleading on the
> issue of how long the move takes so any one's feedback here is much
> appreciated.
>
>
> Exchange 2003 EE SP2
> Windows 2003 EE SP1 W/latest updates/fixes, etc
>
>

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