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I am looking at deploying Sharepoint with Office Web Applications and trying to get the approvals for the necessary hardware. Looking at the requirements from Microsoft (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff431682.aspx) they seem a little much. A beefy web server and a beefy application server for 10 concurrent users?

Anyway, my question is regarding the disk requirement. The Microsoft says the following.

  • 3 x 146 GB, 15 K SAS (3 RAID 1 disks) Disk 1: Operating system Disk 2: Swap and BLOB cache Disk 3: Logs and temp directory)

I am either reading this wrong or I am having a very large brain fart. Are they saying they want 3x RAID 1 arrays (thus needing 6x 146GB drives), or 3x 146 drives in a single RAID 1 array with separate partitions?

Frank Owen
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Nope, it's not just you. Trying to slog through that bucket of fail they call minimum requirements leaves you feeling queasy.

Frankly, I have no idea what they're trying to say. If you go here and download the OfficeWebAppsCapacityPlanningDoc.docx you'll see where they cut that snippet from. Unfortunately the context doesn't really help either.

I believe that those recommendations are for the web front end, in which case based on what those drives are going to be doing, I would do 3 separate RAID 1 arrays (6 disks).

You can look here for more reading on how to configure the SQL backends.

Holocryptic
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