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800 Mailbox

Exchange Server 2007

Storage Solution

Intel

Server Chassis SC5400 and Server

Board S5000PSL

Tested with: ESRP – Stora

ge Version 2.1, Windows Server 2003 R2

Tested Date: January 9, 2009

Publish Date: September 7, 2009

Summary of content (20 pages)

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Intel® 800 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® 800 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® 800 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® 800 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. ® SRCSASJV.
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Intel® 800 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® 800 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® 800 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 800 Number of hosts 1 Number of storage groups / host 3 Number of mailbox stores / storage group 1 Number of mailboxes / mailbox store 267 Number of mailbox store LUNs / storage group 1 Simulated profile: I/O’s per second per mailbox 0.
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Intel® 800 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® 800 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® 800 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 152.168 Average Database Disk Reads/sec 157.468 Average Database Disk Writes/sec 146.867 Average Database Disk Read Latency (ms) 0.018 Average Database Disk Write Latency (ms) 0.049 Transaction Log I/O Average Log Disk Writes/sec 95.087 Average Log Disk Write Latency (ms) 0.
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Intel® 800 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 6-SATA drives, mailboxes=0800, size=250, IOPS=0.
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Intel® 800 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 0.049 157.468 146.867 (n/a) Log (L:) 0.000 0.001 0.000 95.087 10408.992 Host System Performance Counter Average Minimum Maximum % Processor Time 0.409 0.
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Intel® 800 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 1/9/2009 4:20:09 PM -- Performance logging ends. 1/9/2009 4:20:09 PM -- JetInterop batch transaction stats: 250364, 249922, and 250627. 1/9/2009 4:20:11 PM -- Dispatching transactions ends. 1/9/2009 4:20:11 PM -- Shutting down databases ... 1/9/2009 4:21:06 PM -- Instance1688.1 (complete), Instance1688.2 (complete), and Instance1688.
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Intel® 800 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 File length / no pages seconds taken M:\01\Jetstress1.edb 9936722 0 0 0 77630 MBytes / 508 seconds M:\02\Jetstress1.edb 9927250 0 0 0 77556 MBytes / 507 seconds M:\03\Jetstress1.
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Intel® 800 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 0.1 seconds/write). 1/8/2009 4:04:21 PM -- Operation mix: Sessions 3, Inserts 25%, Deletes 10%, Replaces 50%, Reads 15%, Lazy Commits 80%. 1/8/2009 4:04:21 PM -- Performance logging begins (interval: 15000 ms). 1/8/2009 4:04:21 PM -- Attaining prerequisites: 1/8/2009 4:20:08 PM -- \Database(JetstressWin)\Database Cache Size, Last: 725164000.0 (lower bound: 724775700.
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Intel® 800 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 6-SATA drives, mailboxes=0800, size=250, IOPS=0.
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Intel® 800 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 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 0.050 156.493 157.052 (n/a) Log (L:) 0.000 0.001 0.000 107.055 10505.636 Host System Performance Counter Average Minimum Maximum % Processor Time 0.427 0.165 0.
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Intel® 800 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 1/8/2009 1:06:22 PM -- Operation mix: Sessions 3, Inserts 25%, Deletes 10%, Replaces 50%, Reads 15%, Lazy Commits 80%. 1/8/2009 1:06:22 PM -- Performance logging begins (interval: 15000 ms). 1/8/2009 1:06:22 PM -- Attaining prerequisites: 1/8/2009 1:22:18 PM -- \Database (JetstressWin)\Database Cache Size, Last: 725090300.0 (lower bound: 724775700.
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Intel® 800 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 File length / no pages seconds taken M:\01\Jetstress1.edb 8671298 0 0 0 67744 MBytes / 426 seconds M:\02\Jetstress1.edb 8674370 0 0 0 67768 MBytes / 431 seconds M:\03\Jetstress1.
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Intel® 800 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 1/8/2009 1:06:17 PM -- Prepare testing ends. 1/8/2009 1:06:17 PM -- Dispatching transactions begins ... 1/8/2009 1:06:17 PM -- Database cache settings: (minimum: 96.0 MB, maximum: 768.0 MB) 1/8/2009 1:06:17 PM -- Database flush thresholds: (start: 7.7 MB, stop: 15.4 MB) 1/8/2009 1:06:21 PM -- Database read latency thresholds: (average: 0.02 seconds/read, maximum: 0.05 seconds/read).