I am installing Windows 2003 server on a Raid 5 box.
My question is the swap file. Should it be on a seperate
partition? I have heard different views on this.
This server will be used for Citrix XPe.
Any thoughts?
TIA
Kurt

You can move it to another partition if you want, in some cases you'll get a
performance gain from this as your memory paging operations get shifted to a
partition other than your system partition. Just keep in mind that if you
choose to move the partition entirely (get rid of the one on your system
partition) then you won't be able to do crash dumps if the machine should
ever blue-screen on you.

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<kurt.swank@nlcmh.org> wrote in message
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If Software RAID, Don't Do It, use Software RAID, I mean.
If it's Hardware RAID then the O/S wont know and it wont matter. Once you
setup RAID 5 (soft or hard) the system only sees One Drive so you only have
one place to put your page file. Pagefile has nothing to do with your RAID
setup, and the suggestion is that for improved performance you put your
pagefile on a Different Hard Drive where possible, a different Partition is
not a different hard drive.
Thus your question is Twice null and void.

On another point you should Not put the O/S on a RAID 5, It should go onto a
RAID 1 (and the Pagefile should be on the same drive as the O/S). When one
of the drives in a RAID 5 fails, sure things keep running, but at a degraded
level (as data needs to be reconstructed each time it is called). The O/S
won't like this degraded level of performance and you WILL have problems
till the failed drive is replaced. With RAID 1, when a drive fails things
keep running off the remaining drive just as before.
Best Practice is to put O/S on a Mirror Set (RAID 1) and to put Data on a
Parity Set (RAID 5), data is not as touchy about the degraded Preformance
issues.
Hope this helps.
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<kurt.swank@nlcmh.org> wrote in message
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You answer on Pagefile seems the best I have seen so far, here's my question:

I have been setting up a lots of IBM Server with Windows 2003 as RAID 5
system. I normally only partition it to one drive for O/S and all else.

My question is: according to your setup, does that mean (on one IBM server)
I need at least two SCSI drive setup as RAID1, and at least 3 more drive
setup as RAID 5 on the same server? RAID 1 drive partiton for O/S and
Pagefile while RAID 5 drive for application and data?

Thanks,
Jimmy

"Yor Suiris" wrote:

Yes that is the best way to setup RAID for a production server, 5 HDs. You
should/could also load up another HD as a Spare if Your RAID hardware
supports such, then when one of the production HDs dies the hardware
Automaticaly switches to the spare.
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