How Long should a Raid 5 server take to shut down (ML350)

[Brad Jones_3]

I have a ML350 G3 with the smart array controller card and 3 drives, 2Gig of ram and a 2.8 xeon processer. This server runs Server 2003 and Exchange 2003, it is also my domain controller and DNS, DHCP and a web serv. I know I should have these distributed to other servers but this is what I have so I have to work with it. My concern/problem is the time it takes for this system to shut down. The last time I shut this server down it wasn't finished after 45 minutes. It was still on the screen that say's Shutting Down.
How long (guesses/approximations) should it take for the server to shut down?

Oh yeah, I also had a motherboard replacement/failure the end of November. and this server was brought online in August of 04

Thanks in advance
Brad J
bradjones@liberal.k12.mo.us

[Bostjan Kosi]

Hi,

I think your problem is not related to hardware...Check how long does it take if you manualy stop exchange services before shutting down..I bet it will be much faster...


BR
B.

[Brad Jones_3]

Thanks I'll try that, I went ahead and did some updates that required a reboot and it only took 9 minutes to shut down as opposed to the last couple of times. next time though I'll try that.