Managing the Store & DAG: EXCERPT from Microsoft® Exchange Server 2013 Inside Out

Approaching DAG designs

Any technology only moves out of the interesting category to become valuable when it can be applied to solve real-life operational problems in production environments. You’ve already looked at how you might calculate the raw storage requirement for a deployment. In this section, take a different view and see how to use DAG technology to address the high-availability requirements for a fictional company. The options discussed here are not exhaustive and are simply intended to get the conversation going. Planning for a production DAG environment needs to be done on the basis of solid information, well-specified requirements, and probably buy-in from different parts of the company. All these points must be covered before you ...