Intel® 900 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® 900 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Contents Hardware Components.........................................................................................................................4 Software Components..........................................................................................................................4 Introduction.............................................................................................
Intel® 900 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® 900 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® 900 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.
Intel® 900 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 900 Number of hosts 1 Number of storage groups / host 2 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® 900 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® 900 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® 900 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 270.628 Average Database Disk Reads/sec 281.798 Average Database Disk Writes/sec 259.457 Average Database Disk Read Latency (ms) 0.015 Average Database Disk Write Latency (ms) 0.036 Transaction Log I/O Average Log Disk Writes/sec 120.559 Average Log Disk Write Latency (ms) 0.
Intel® 900 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-SAS drives, mailboxes=900, size=250, IOPS=0.
Intel® 900 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Insert operations 25% 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:) 0.015 0.036 281.798 259.457 (n/a) Log (L:) 0.000 0.003 0.000 120.559 12984.
Intel® 900 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 2/19/2009 10:20:45 PM -- Volume M: has 0.00001 for read latency slope. 2/19/2009 10:22:45 PM -- 271 batch transactions/sec and 8 sessions have 590 IOPS. 2/19/2009 10:22:45 PM -- 8 sessions have actual 590 IOPS (target IOPS: 450) 2/19/2009 10:22:45 PM -- Volume M: has 0.0183 for Avg. Disk sec/Read. 2/19/2009 10:22:45 PM -- Volume L: has 0.0031 for Avg. Disk sec/Write.
Intel® 900 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 17815960 0 0 0 139187 MBytes / 634 seconds M:\02\Jetstress1.
Intel® 900 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 2/19/2009 10:20:15 PM -- 16 sessions have actual 657 IOPS (target IOPS: 450) 2/19/2009 10:20:15 PM -- Volume M: has 0.0236 for Avg. Disk sec/Read. 2/19/2009 10:20:15 PM -- Process has average database read latencies higher than 0.020. 2/19/2009 10:20:15 PM -- Volume L: has 0.0032 for Avg. Disk sec/Write. 2/19/2009 10:20:15 PM -- Volume L: has 0.0000 for Avg. Disk sec/Read.
Intel® 900 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-SAS drives, mailboxes=900, size=250, IOPS=0.
Intel® 900 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:) 0.014 0.036 297.906 283.147 (n/a) Log (L:) 0.000 0.003 0.000 140.582 14260.138 Host System Performance Counter Average Minimum Maximum % Processor Time 0.810 0.428 1.
Intel® 900 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 2/19/2009 7:24:38 PM -- Process has average database read latencies higher than 0.020. 2/19/2009 7:24:38 PM -- Volume L: has 0.0032 for Avg. Disk sec/Write. 2/19/2009 7:24:38 PM -- Volume L: has 0.0001 for Avg. Disk sec/Read. 2/19/2009 7:24:38 PM -- Operation mix: Sessions 8, Inserts 25%, Deletes 10%, Replaces 50%, Reads 15%, Lazy Commits 80%. 2/19/2009 7:25:08 PM -- Volume M: has 0.
Intel® 900 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 14765170 0 0 0 115352 MBytes / 508 seconds M:\02\Jetstress1.
Intel® 900 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 2/19/2009 7:17:01 PM -- Database cache settings: (minimum: 64.0 MB, maximum: 512.0 MB) 2/19/2009 7:17:01 PM -- Database flush thresholds: (start: 5.1 MB, stop: 10.2 MB) 2/19/2009 7:17:03 PM -- Database read latency thresholds: (average: 0.02 seconds/read, maximum: 0.05 seconds/read). 2/19/2009 7:17:03 PM -- Log write latency thresholds: (average: 0.01 seconds/write, maximum: 0.05 seconds/write).
Intel® 900 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 2/19/2009 9:27:12 PM -- JetInterop batch transaction stats: 70021, and 69401. 2/19/2009 9:27:12 PM -- Dispatching transactions ends. 2/19/2009 9:27:12 PM -- Shutting down databases ... 2/19/2009 9:27:27 PM -- Instance2968.1 (complete), and Instance2968.2 (complete) 2/19/2009 9:27:28 PM -- Performance logging begins (interval: 15000 ms). 2/19/2009 9:27:28 PM -- Verifying database checksums ...