Microsoft Exchange Best Practices

Microsoft Exchange is the world’s most widely deployed email and collaboration solution. Microsoft continues to improve the product with each new revision, pushing the limits of existing server and storage devices. Microsoft Exchange 2007 is the latest version of the popular email solution. The most critical component of an Exchange deployment is the storage subsystem where the data is held. The scope of this paper is storage sizing and deployment practices for Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP1 on the Pillar Data Systems Pillar Axiom in an email environment.