Specifying separate UNC path for Exchange Archive Mailbox Database

Hi All,
In Exchange Server 2013 SP1, is it possible to specify UNC path to a separate hardware appliance ?
In this case I'd like to create the Archive mailbox database on the CIFS share hosted by EMC Data Domain to perform the hardware based data deduplication & compression.
Does this path must also be accessible on the DAG passive node in DR data center ?
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Hi ,
most Scenarios are not supported while there is still some Scenario where you can use shares.
"If access to a disk resource requires that a share be mapped, or   if the disk resource appears
as a remote server by means of a Universal Naming   Convention (UNC) path
(for example,   \\servername\sharename)   on the network, the disk storage system is not supported
as a location for   Exchange Server databases. "
This is also true for the Arcive DB.
Please note that UNC directly with Exchange 2013 is possible with limited support only, and no
version of Exchange allows you to store databases on an UNC path (except the one when you map
SMB 3.0 shares to a VM) :
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee832792(v=exchg.150).aspx#Best
(Please also note the recommendation not to use deduplication by the storage.)
Don't try to do that, because even if you configure that you will run into a non-supported situation.
I strongly suggest you to avoid that.
In addition, there is a webcast from Scott Schnoll about virtualization and file Shares that makes it a Little more clear.
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechDays/Techdays-2014-the-Netherlands/Exchange-Server-2013-Virtualization-Best-Practices
While the session is about virtualization, on 13:00 they start a discussion about storage.
There is the reasons discussed why not to use UNC for your databases. (Don't worry, they start discussion with NFS)
The presentation shown on 21:43 is what you need to think about when planning to use UNC resources.
Storing an Exchnage DB on UNC is not supported.
Regards,
Martin
Hi martin,
So how are we going to Deduplicate the data ? Any suggestion perhaps ?
My understanding is that Exchange Server 2010 onwards doesn't have data deduplication.
How about mapping the UNC path as mapped network drive ?
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