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Intel® 1200 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: March 29, 2009

Publish Date: September 7, 2009

Summary of content (21 pages)

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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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Intel®1200 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®1200 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®1200 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®1200 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®1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 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®1200 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 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.
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Intel®1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Primary Storage Software Component Description HBA driver Intel SRCSASRB 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®1200 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®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 136.1 Average Database Disk Reads/sec 71.6 Average Database Disk Writes/sec 64.5 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 41.1 Average Log Disk Write Latency (ms) 0.
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Intel®1200 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® SRCSASRB 10-SATA drives, mailboxes=1200, size=250, IOPS=0.
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Intel®1200 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:) 0.017 0.017 71.397 64.556 (n/a) Database (N:) 0.018 0.022 71.630 64.479 (n/a) Database (O:) 0.019 0.031 71.759 64.
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Intel®1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 3/28/2009 7:50:50 PM -- \Database(JetstressWin)\Database Cache Size, Last: 724926500.0 (lower bound: 724775700.0, upper bound: none) 3/29/2009 7:50:51 PM -- Performance logging ends. 3/29/2009 7:50:52 PM -- JetInterop batch transaction stats: 326944, 327492, and 327061. 3/29/2009 7:50:52 PM -- Dispatching transactions ends. 3/29/2009 7:50:52 PM -- Shutting down databases ...
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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 File length / no pages seconds taken M:\Jetstress1.edb 14644338 0 0 0 114408 MBytes / 1102 seconds N:\Jetstress1.edb 14636402 0 0 0 114346 MBytes / 1567 seconds O:\Jetstress1.
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Intel®1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 3/28/2009 7:39:33 PM -- Operation mix: Sessions 4, Inserts 25%, Deletes 10%, Replaces 50%, Reads 15%, Lazy Commits 80%. 3/28/2009 7:39:33 PM -- Performance logging begins (interval: 15000 ms). 3/28/2009 7:39:33 PM -- Attaining prerequisites: 3/28/2009 7:50:50 PM -- \Database(JetstressWin)\Database Cache Size, Last: 724926500.0 (lower bound: 724775700.
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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 SRCSASRB 10-SATA drives, mailboxes=1200, size=250, IOPS=0.
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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:) 0.016 0.017 71.034 69.756 (n/a) Database (N:) 0.018 0.022 71.977 70.305 (n/a) Database (O:) 0.018 0.032 71.556 69.581 (n/a) Log (Q:) 0.000 0.001 0.000 45.
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Intel®1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 3/28/2009 3:24:48 PM -- Dispatching transactions begins ... 3/28/2009 3:24:48 PM -- Database cache settings: (minimum: 96.0 MB, maximum: 768.0 MB) 3/28/2009 3:24:48 PM -- Database flush thresholds: (start: 7.7 MB, stop: 15.4 MB) 3/28/2009 3:24:52 PM -- Database read latency thresholds: (average: 0.02 seconds/read, maximum: 0.05 seconds/read).
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Intel®1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 3/28/2009 6:01:25 PM -- Volume R: has 0.0011 for Avg. Disk sec/Write. 3/28/2009 6:01:25 PM -- Volume R: has 0.0000 for Avg. Disk sec/Read. 3/28/2009 6:01:25 PM -- Volume S: has 0.0011 for Avg. Disk sec/Write. 3/28/2009 6:01:25 PM -- Volume S: has 0.0000 for Avg. Disk sec/Read. 3/28/2009 6:01:25 PM -- Test has 0 Maximum Database Page Fault Stalls/sec.
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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 File length / no pages seconds taken M:\Jetstress1.edb 12978530 0 0 0 101394 MBytes / 998 seconds N:\Jetstress1.edb 12977762 0 0 0 101388 MBytes / 1398 seconds O:\Jetstress1.
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Intel®1200 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 3/28/2009 3:24:45 PM -- 100.0% of 195.3 GB complete (195.3 GB duplicated). 3/28/2009 3:24:48 PM -- Attaching databases ... 3/28/2009 3:24:48 PM -- Prepare testing ends. 3/28/2009 3:24:48 PM -- Dispatching transactions begins ... 3/28/2009 3:24:48 PM -- Database cache settings: (minimum: 96.0 MB, maximum: 768.0 MB) 3/28/2009 3:24:48 PM -- Database flush thresholds: (start: 7.7 MB, stop: 15.