Disk storage devices on a Windows® server

You should plan to use at least ten disk drives. Use your sizing calculations to determine the size of these disk drives.

The examples that follow show one way to configure disk storage devices on a server. The examples assume that disk storage is needed for the various Content Manager OnDemand software programs, for data transmitted from z/OS systems, to index data on the server, for the database and database log files, for the archive storage manager database, and for cache storage.

If you are configuring a server for a large organization or a server on which you plan to load and maintain a large amount of data on disk, organize your disk storage devices into the following groups:

System software and files
Content Manager OnDemand software
Data transmitted from other systems and indexing data on the server
Content Manager OnDemand database and database log files
Cache storage

You might need more drives depending on the size of the database and how much data you need to maintain in cache storage (and how long you need to maintain the data).

If you are configuring a server for a small workgroup or a server on which you plan to load and maintain very little data on disk, organize your disk storage devices into the following groups:

Software programs
Content Manager OnDemand database and database log files
Cache storage
Data transmitted from other systems, indexing data on the server, temporary storage