Any Microsoft Server experts here?
Hey guys- we're FINALLY dumping our Novell Netware servers at the bank and moving to Microsoft Server 2008. The project just got approved today. We have other microsoft servers for general items but our main server is Novell. Its been awhile since I built a server and I wanted to ask you gurus some best practices questions. With this 2008 project I'm also building a Windows 2003 web edition server. When installing the OS, how big do you guys make your boot partitions AND do you make everything all NTFS?
I did a bunch of searching today where some people make the boot partition 12, 15 some people 20GB. Then I read where alot of people wished they made it larger. When you start adding software later on, updates, etc.. you can run into trouble if your partition is too small. This is a RAID 5 server i'm building. Partitioning software can be $$$$. So I rather just avoid any future issues later on down the road.
I'm using 3- 146GB SCSI drives. With RAID 5, you lose a drive. To tell you the truth, I'd rather just make it all one large NTFS C: drive and not individual partitions/drives. If I remember it right, it was roughly 138GB if I do max partition.
What do you guys think?
Thanks.
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