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Intel® 550 Mailbox

Exchange Server 2007

Storage Solution

Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server

Board S5000PSL

Tested with: ESRP – Storage Version 2.1, Windows Server 2003 R2

Tested Date: January 6, 2009

Publish Date: September 7, 2009

Summary of content (20 pages)

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Intel® 550 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® 550 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL DISCLAIMER The information contained in this document is provided for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Intel® Corporation (“Intel”) and its contributors ("Contributors") on, as of the date of publication.
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Intel® 550 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Contents Hardware Components.........................................................................................................................4 Software Components..........................................................................................................................4 Introduction.............................................................................................
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Intel® 550 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.
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Intel® 550 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*.
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Intel® 550 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.
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Intel® 550 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 550 Number of hosts 1 Number of storage groups / host 1 Number of mailbox stores / storage group 1 Number of mailboxes / mailbox store 550 Number of mailbox store LUNs / storage group 1 Simulated profile: I/O’s per second per mailbox 0.
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Intel® 550 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.
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Intel® 550 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.
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Intel® 550 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 84.212 Average Database Disk Reads/sec 89.134 Average Database Disk Writes/sec 79.289 Average Database Disk Read Latency (ms) 0.016 Average Database Disk Write Latency (ms) 0.086 Transaction Log I/O Average Log Disk Writes/sec 51.306 Average Log Disk Write Latency (ms) 0.
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Intel® 550 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 4-SATA drives, mailboxes=0550, size=250, IOPS=0.
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Intel® 550 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Delete operations 10% 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:) 0.016 0.086 89.134 79.289 (n/a) Log (L:) 0.000 0.001 0.000 51.306 10399.
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Intel® 550 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 1/6/2009 1/6/2009 1/6/2009 1/6/2009 samples. 1/6/2009 1/6/2009 1/6/2009 1/6/2009 1/6/2009 1/6/2009 1/6/2009 1/6/2009 1/6/2009 1/6/2009 1/6/2009 queried. 6:37:49 7:07:48 7:07:49 7:07:49 PM PM PM PM ----- Verifying database checksums ... M: (100% processed) Performance logging ends. C:\Data\Jetstress\DBChecksum_2009_1_6_18_37_49.
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Intel® 550 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 19824530 0 0 0 154879 MBytes / 1798 seconds (Sum) 0 0 154879 MBytes / 1798 seconds 19824530 0 Disk Subsystem Performance (of checksum) LogicalDisk Avg. Disk sec/Read Avg.
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Intel® 550 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Reads 15%, Lazy Commits 80%. 1/5/2009 6:28:32 PM -- Performance logging begins (interval: 15000 ms). 1/5/2009 6:28:32 PM -- Attaining prerequisites: 1/5/2009 6:37:15 PM -- \Database(JetstressWin)\Database Cache Size, Last: 241680400.0 (lower bound: 241591900.0, upper bound: none) 1/6/2009 6:37:17 PM -- Performance logging ends. 1/6/2009 6:37:17 PM -- JetInterop batch transaction stats: 399494.
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Intel® 550 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 4-SATA drives, mailboxes=0550, size=250, IOPS=0.
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Intel® 550 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:) 0.016 0.088 89.427 87.642 (n/a) Log (L:) 0.000 0.001 0.000 59.254 10470.434 Host System Performance Counter Average Minimum Maximum % Processor Time 0.239 0.078 0.547 Available MBytes 3138.310 3135.
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Intel® 550 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 1/5/2009 3:42:31 1/5/2009 3:42:31 1/5/2009 4:09:09 1/5/2009 4:09:10 1/5/2009 4:09:10 samples. 1/5/2009 4:09:13 1/5/2009 4:09:13 1/5/2009 4:09:14 1/5/2009 4:09:14 samples. 1/5/2009 4:09:14 1/5/2009 4:09:18 1/5/2009 4:09:18 1/5/2009 4:09:18 1/5/2009 4:09:18 1/5/2009 4:09:18 1/5/2009 4:09:18 samples queried. PM PM PM PM PM ------ Performance logging begins (interval: 15000 ms).
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Intel® 550 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 17816962 0 0 0 139195 MBytes / 1597 seconds (Sum) 0 0 139195 MBytes / 1597 seconds 17816962 0 Disk Subsystem Performance (of checksum) LogicalDisk Avg. Disk sec/Read Avg.
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Intel® 550 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 1/5/2009 1:33:11 PM -- Database read latency thresholds: (average: 0.02 seconds/read, maximum: 0.05 seconds/read). 1/5/2009 1:33:11 PM -- Log write latency thresholds: (average: 0.01 seconds/write, maximum: 0.05 seconds/write). 1/5/2009 1:33:12 PM -- Operation mix: Sessions 3, Inserts 25%, Deletes 10%, Replaces 50%, Reads 15%, Lazy Commits 80%.