Intel® 1800 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Tested with: ESRP – Storage Version 2.
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Intel® 1800 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Contents Hardware Components.........................................................................................................................4 Software Components..........................................................................................................................4 Introduction............................................................................................
Intel® 1800 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Hardware Components Quantity Item Manufacturer ® One Intel Server Board One Intel Server Chassis 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.
Intel® 1800 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Introduction 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® 1800 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL may not necessarily be viable for some customer deployment. 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.
Intel® 1800 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Tested Deployment The following tables summarize the testing environment: Description Data Number of Exchange mailboxes simulated 1800 Number of hosts 1 Number of storage groups / host 4 Number of mailbox stores / storage group 1 Number of mailboxes / mailbox store 450 Number of mailbox store LUNs / storage group 1 Simulated profile: I/O’s per second per mailbox 0.
Intel® 1800 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.
Intel® 1800 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Best Practices 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® 1800 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 120.147 Average Database Disk Reads/sec 128.113 Average Database Disk Writes/sec 111.982 Average Database Disk Read Latency (ms) 0.016 Average Database Disk Write Latency (ms) 0.020 Transaction Log I/O Average Log Disk Writes/sec 42.043 Average Log Disk Write Latency (ms) 0.
Intel® 1800 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Appendix A - Test Results 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 mailboxes=1800, size=250, IOPS=0.
Intel® 1800 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:) 0.015 0.020 128.362 112.223 (n/a) Database (N:) 0.016 0.020 127.674 111.500 (n/a) Database (O:) 0.015 0.020 128.106 112.197 (n/a) Database (P:) 0.017 0.020 128.
Intel® 1800 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 2/6/2009 3:53:12 PM -- Log write latency thresholds: (average: 0.01 seconds/write, maximum: 0.1 seconds/write). 2/6/2009 3:53:13 PM -- Operation mix: Sessions 12, Inserts 25%, Deletes 10%, Replaces 50%, Reads 15%, Lazy Commits 80%. 2/6/2009 3:53:13 PM -- Performance logging begins (interval: 15000 ms).
Intel® 1800 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 2/7/2009 4:47:30 PM -- Volume S: has 0.0095 for Avg. Disk sec/Write. 2/7/2009 4:47:30 PM -- Volume S: has 0.0000 for Avg. Disk sec/Read. 2/7/2009 4:47:30 PM -- Volume T: has 0.0097 for Avg. Disk sec/Write. 2/7/2009 4:47:30 PM -- Volume T: has 0.0000 for Avg. Disk sec/Read. 2/7/2009 4:47:30 PM -- Test has 0 Maximum Database Page Fault Stalls/sec.
Intel® 1800 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 17583234 0 0 0 137369 MBytes / 2321 seconds N:\Jetstress1.edb 17598594 0 0 0 137489 MBytes / 2744 seconds O:\Jetstress1.edb 17580674 0 0 0 137349 MBytes / 2623 seconds P:\Jetstress1.
Intel® 1800 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 2/6/2009 3:53:06 PM -- Database cache settings: (minimum: 128.0 MB, maximum: 1.0 GB) 2/6/2009 3:53:06 PM -- Database flush thresholds: (start: 10.2 MB, stop: 20.5 MB) 2/6/2009 3:53:12 PM -- Database read latency thresholds: (average: 0.02 seconds/read, maximum: 0.1 seconds/read). 2/6/2009 3:53:12 PM -- Log write latency thresholds: (average: 0.01 seconds/write, maximum: 0.1 seconds/write).
Intel® 1800 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 mailboxes=1800, size=250, IOPS=0.
Intel® 1800 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:) 0.015 0.020 119.389 113.186 (n/a) Database (N:) 0.015 0.019 118.383 113.575 (n/a) Database (O:) 0.014 0.018 117.451 110.157 (n/a) Database (P:) 0.016 0.019 118.912 111.877 (n/a) Log (Q:) 0.000 0.010 0.
Intel® 1800 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 2/6/2009 1:00:06 PM -- Dispatching transactions begins ... 2/6/2009 1:00:06 PM -- Database cache settings: (minimum: 128.0 MB, maximum: 1.0 GB) 2/6/2009 1:00:06 PM -- Database flush thresholds: (start: 10.2 MB, stop: 20.5 MB) 2/6/2009 1:00:11 PM -- Database read latency thresholds: (average: 0.02 seconds/read, maximum: 0.05 seconds/read).
Intel® 1800 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 2/6/2009 3:46:43 PM -- Volume P: has 0.0155 for Avg. Disk sec/Read. 2/6/2009 3:46:43 PM -- Volume Q: has 0.0097 for Avg. Disk sec/Write. 2/6/2009 3:46:43 PM -- Volume Q: has 0.0000 for Avg. Disk sec/Read. 2/6/2009 3:46:43 PM -- Volume R: has 0.0096 for Avg. Disk sec/Write. 2/6/2009 3:46:43 PM -- Volume R: has 0.0000 for Avg. Disk sec/Read. 2/6/2009 3:46:43 PM -- Volume S: has 0.0097 for Avg.
Intel® 1800 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 14676594 0 0 0 114660 MBytes / 1932 seconds N:\Jetstress1.edb 14682738 0 0 0 114708 MBytes / 2300 seconds O:\Jetstress1.edb 14664562 0 0 0 114566 MBytes / 2166 seconds P:\Jetstress1.
Intel® 1800 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 2/6/2009 11:40:28 AM -- 60.0% of 109.9 GB complete (4016812 records inserted). 2/6/2009 12:07:53 PM -- 100.0% of 109.9 GB complete (6425597 records inserted). 2/6/2009 12:07:55 PM -- Duplicating 3 databases: 2/6/2009 1:00:02 PM -- 100.0% of 329.6 GB complete (329.6 GB duplicated). 2/6/2009 1:00:06 PM -- Attaching databases ... 2/6/2009 1:00:06 PM -- Prepare testing ends.