Intel® 1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Tested with: ESRP – Storage Version 2.
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Contents Intel® 1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Hardware Components.........................................................................................................................4 Software Components..........................................................................................................................4 Introduction...........................................................................................
Hardware Components Quantity Item Manufacturer ® One Intel Server Board One Intel Server Chassis Model Intel S5000PSL. Additional information is available at: http://www.intel.com/products/server/motherboards/s5000psl/s5000psloverview.htm. Intel SC5400. Additional information is available at: http://www.intel.com/products/server/chassis/sc5400/sc5400overview.htm.
Introduction Intel® 1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL This document provides information on Intel’s storage solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, based the Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) – Storage program*.
Intel® 1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL For more information on identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks in an Exchange system, please refer to Microsoft's Troubleshooting Microsoft Exchange Server Performance, available at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=23454. Test Server Configuration Component Description Server Chassis Intel® SC5400 Server Board Intel® S500PSL CPU 2 Intel® Xeon® E5320, quad-core, 1.
Tested Deployment Intel® 1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL The following tables summarize the testing environment: Description Data Number of Exchange mailboxes simulated 1200 Number of hosts 1 Number of storage groups / host 3 Number of mailbox stores / storage group 1 Number of mailboxes / mailbox store 400 Number of mailbox store LUNs / storage group 1 Simulated profile: I/O’s per second per mailbox 0.
Intel® 1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Primary Storage Software Component Description HBA driver Intel SRCSASJV HBA Queue Target Setting N/A HBA Queue Depth Setting N/A Multi-Pathing N/A Host OS MS Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition w/ Service Pack 1 ESE.dll file version 08.00.0685.
Best Practices Intel® 1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Exchange Server is a disk-intensive application. Based on the testing runs using the ESRP framework, we recommend the following Microsoft best practices for storage system design for Exchange Server 2007, available at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124518.aspx.
Intel® 1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL I/O Component Metric Database I/O Average Database Disk Transfers/sec 65.398 Average Database Disk Reads/sec 91.740 Average Database Disk Writes/sec 62.010 Average Database Disk Read Latency (ms) 0.018 Average Database Disk Write Latency (ms) 0.023 Transaction Log I/O Average Log Disk Writes/sec 39.624 Average Log Disk Write Latency (ms) 0.
Appendix A - Test Results Intel® 1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress 24 Hour Reliability Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress Stress Test Result Report Test Summary Overall Test Result Pass Machine Name DMRTK-SRVR-I2 Test Description Intel SRCSASJV 10-SATA drives, mailboxes=1200, size=250, IOPS=0.
Intel® 1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Replace operations 50% Read operations 15% Lazy commits 80% Disk Subsystem Performance LogicalDisk Avg. Disk sec/Read Avg. Disk sec/Write Disk Reads/sec Disk Writes/sec Avg. Disk Bytes/Write Database (M:) 0.018 0.018 68.865 62.008 (n/a) Database (N:) 0.019 0.023 68.403 61.687 (n/a) Database (O:) 0.020 0.032 69.086 62.336 (n/a) Log (Q:) 0.000 0.001 0.000 39.
Intel® 1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 1/15/2009 10:11:21 AM -- Performance logging begins (interval: 15000 ms). 1/15/2009 10:11:21 AM -- Attaining prerequisites: 1/15/2009 10:23:27 AM -- \Database(JetstressWin)\Database Cache Size, Last: 724992000.0 (lower bound: 724775700.0, upper bound: none) 1/16/2009 10:23:29 AM -- Performance logging ends. 1/16/2009 10:23:29 AM -- JetInterop batch transaction stats: 315496, 314965, and 316146.
Intel® 1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress Test Result Report Checksum Statistics - All Database Seen pages Bad pages Correctable pages Wrong page no pages File length / seconds taken M:\Jetstress1.edb 14557042 0 0 0 113726 MBytes / 1122 seconds N:\Jetstress1.edb 14562418 0 0 0 113768 MBytes / 1587 seconds O:\Jetstress1.
Intel® 1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 1/15/2009 10:11:20 AM -- Log write latency thresholds: (average: 0.01 seconds/write, maximum: 0.1 seconds/write). 1/15/2009 10:11:21 AM -- Operation mix: Sessions 4, Inserts 25%, Deletes 10%, Replaces 50%, Reads 15%, Lazy Commits 80%. 1/15/2009 10:11:21 AM -- Performance logging begins (interval: 15000 ms).
Intel® 1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress 2 Hour Performance Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress Performance Test Result Report Test Summary Overall Test Result Pass Machine Name DMRTK-SRVR-I2 Test Description Intel SRCSASJV 10-SATA drives, mailboxes=1200, size=250, IOPS=0.
Intel® 1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Lazy commits 80% Disk Subsystem Performance LogicalDisk Avg. Disk sec/Read Avg. Disk sec/Write Disk Reads/sec Disk Writes/sec Avg. Disk Bytes/Write Database (M:) 0.018 0.018 68.175 66.564 (n/a) Database (N:) 0.019 0.023 68.278 65.879 (n/a) Database (O:) 0.020 0.032 69.341 67.272 (n/a) Log (Q:) 0.000 0.001 0.000 43.258 10721.727 Log (R:) 0.000 0.001 0.000 43.
Intel® 1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 1/14/2009 10:34:10 PM -- JetInterop batch transaction stats: 32086, 32240, and 32333. 1/14/2009 10:34:10 PM -- Dispatching transactions ends. 1/14/2009 10:34:10 PM -- Shutting down databases ... 1/14/2009 10:34:45 PM -- Instance1680.1 (complete), Instance1680.2 (complete), and Instance1680.3 (complete) 1/14/2009 10:34:45 PM -- Performance logging begins (interval: 15000 ms).
Intel® 1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Memory System Performance (of checksum) Counter Average Minimum Maximum % Processor Time 3.982 3.411 4.661 Available MBytes 3398.448 3389.000 3412.000 Free System Page Table Entries 4170561.000 4170561.000 4170561.000 Transition Pages RePurposed/sec 0.000 0.000 0.000 Pool Nonpaged Bytes 36376832.000 36360192.000 36397056.000 Pool Paged Bytes 45082794.667 44802048.000 45871104.
Intel® 1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 1/14/2009 10:34:45 PM -- Instance1680.1 (complete), Instance1680.2 (complete), and Instance1680.3 (complete) 1/14/2009 10:34:45 PM -- Performance logging begins (interval: 15000 ms). 1/14/2009 10:34:45 PM -- Verifying database checksums ... 1/14/2009 10:58:51 PM -- M: (100% processed), N: (100% processed), and O: (100% processed) 1/14/2009 10:58:52 PM -- Performance logging ends.