we are thinking of moving our existing domino server installation to new hardware. we have been asked to give the team responsible for procuring the hardware the amount of disk space that we would need. Is there a way in which a domino administrator can caluctate this… based on his actual amount of disk space taken by applications and mail files.
Subject: disk space
I always like to use a 20% disk space equity. When it gets down to 10% I expand disk space. AdminP, Compact have to have space to work. It’s impossible to know an exact formula if users do not have quotas and can FT their mail files if they’d like.
Subject: if you move to new hardware
i would suggest that u minimum get the double or triple space u’ve right now, so u’ve not to worry about for a longer while
Subject: Disk Space
The first two options are both good practices. Microsoft recommends at least 20-30% free space in any environment.Take whatever space you currently have filled on all of your drives(partitioned) and double it. An NSD or WinMSD report will give you drive specifics.
Subject: Disk space - think strategically
first of all - the min. 20% free is actually meant for the partition that holds the Windows install and the temp directory for Windows. that shoudl (optimally) never go under 20%. Once you install a server that partition shoudl not change in size much, other than for groth due to system upgrades and MS patches.Data:
Shoudl be on a separate partition (don’t share the same physical disks as the OS partition, make it separate) and take your current size and factor in growth. Ideally you are running activities trending and can actually determine what your growth rate is. Also look into space saving things such as design compression, document compression, LZ1 compression, etc.
Take a separate drive for transactional logging - min. 4 GB - on a separate partition (again, don’t share these drives with anything else!!!) and then a separate drive for logging a(console logs etc. if you use them) and for view rebuilds. The view rebuild partition needs the minimum size of 4 x your largest database. You can put this on the same drives as the data resides but I would have it in a separate partition for convenience.
Just some thoughts - building and planning a new server takes a bit of thinking and forethought - spend the time now and have less problems later
Subject: compaction…
Victor, thanks for the info…Does the same applies to compaction i.e. 4x the largest database…