Best Practice for Exchange 2019 Abritration Databases

Stan C 21 Reputation points
2021-02-26T14:29:12.277+00:00

I have some questions in regards to the best practice for these 7 mailboxes in the default database (which is located on the system drive) Should these mailboxes be located on the system drive Database or should they be moved to a separate database? ![72506-image.png][1] [1]: /api/attachments/72506-image.png?platform=QnA

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  1. Andy David - MVP 141.2K Reputation points MVP
    2021-02-26T15:47:22.397+00:00

    They should be in a database thats protected.
    By that I mean, redundancy with a DAG and replicated to other servers or storage that is highly resilient.

    The system drive typically is not sufficient and I would not locate the arbitration or any user mailbox on the default database if its located on the system drive.

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/plan-and-deploy/deployment-ref/storage-configuration?view=exchserver-2019#best-practices-for-supported-storage-configurations

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  1. Stan C 21 Reputation points
    2021-02-26T15:49:48.713+00:00

    Perfect, thanks for confirming. I was leaning on that as well..

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