Intel® 500 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® 500 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Contents Hardware Components.........................................................................................................................4 Software Components..........................................................................................................................4 Introduction.............................................................................................
Intel® 500 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® 500 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® 500 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 Two Intel® Xeon® E5320, quad-core, 1.
Intel® 500 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 500 Number of hosts 1 Number of storage groups / host 1 Number of mailbox stores / storage group 1 Number of mailboxes / mailbox store 500 Number of mailbox store LUNs / storage group 1 Simulated profile: I/O’s per second per mailbox 0.
Intel® 500 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.
Intel® 500 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® 500 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Database I/O Average Database Disk Transfers/sec 132.593 Average Database Disk Reads/sec 71.512 Average Database Disk Writes/sec 193.674 Average Database Disk Read Latency (ms) 0.010 Average Database Disk Write Latency (ms) 0.036 Transaction Log I/O Average Log Disk Writes/sec 35.534 Average Log Disk Write Latency (ms) 0.
Intel® 500 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 4-SAS drives, mailboxes=500, size=250, IOPS=0.
Intel® 500 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:) 0.010 0.036 71.512 193.674 (n/a) Log (L:) 0.000 0.002 0.000 35.534 7164.
Intel® 500 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 2/26/2009 8:50:04 PM -- Automatic tuning begins ... 2/26/2009 8:50:34 PM -- Volume M: has 0.00062 for read latency slope. 2/26/2009 8:51:04 PM -- Volume M: has 0.00048 for read latency slope. 2/26/2009 8:53:04 PM -- 186 batch transactions/sec and 16 sessions have 383 IOPS. 2/26/2009 8:53:04 PM -- 16 sessions have actual 383 IOPS (target IOPS: 250) 2/26/2009 8:53:04 PM -- Volume M: has 0.
Intel® 500 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 2/27/2009 8:58:39 PM -- Dispatching transactions ends. 2/27/2009 8:58:39 PM -- Shutting down databases ... 2/28/2009 8:04:23 PM -- Instance2108.1 (complete) 2/28/2009 8:04:23 PM -- Performance logging begins (interval: 15000 ms). 2/28/2009 8:04:23 PM -- Verifying database checksums ... 2/28/2009 8:25:30 PM -- M: (100% processed) 2/28/2009 8:25:31 PM -- Performance logging ends.
Intel® 500 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 17812472 0 0 0 139159 MBytes / 1266 seconds (Sum) 0 0 139159 MBytes / 1266 seconds 17812472 0 Disk Subsystem Performance (of checksum) LogicalDisk Avg. Disk sec/Read Avg.
Intel® 500 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 2/26/2009 8:53:04 PM -- 16 sessions have actual 383 IOPS (target IOPS: 250) 2/26/2009 8:53:04 PM -- Volume M: has 0.0291 for Avg. Disk sec/Read. 2/26/2009 8:53:04 PM -- Process has average database read latencies higher than 0.020. 2/26/2009 8:53:04 PM -- Volume L: has 0.0025 for Avg. Disk sec/Write. 2/26/2009 8:53:04 PM -- Volume L: has 0.0000 for Avg. Disk sec/Read.
Intel® 500 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 4-SAS drives, mailboxes=500, size=250, IOPS=0.
Intel® 500 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:) 0.012 0.071 139.504 134.646 (n/a) Log (L:) 0.000 0.002 0.000 75.691 12308.349 Host System Performance Counter Average Minimum Maximum % Processor Time 0.363 0.
Intel® 500 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 2/26/2009 5:40:29 PM -- Attaining prerequisites: 2/26/2009 5:44:11 PM -- \Database(JetstressWin)\Database Cache Size, Last: 242327600.0 (lower bound: 241591900.0, upper bound: none) 2/26/2009 5:44:12 PM -- Performance logging begins (interval: 5000 ms). 2/26/2009 5:44:12 PM -- Automatic tuning begins ... 2/26/2009 5:44:42 PM -- Volume M: has 0.00012 for read latency slope.
Intel® 500 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 2/26/2009 5:52:14 PM -- \Database(JetstressWin)\Database Cache Size, Last: 267935700.0 (lower bound: 241591900.0, upper bound: none) 2/26/2009 7:52:16 PM -- Performance logging ends. 2/26/2009 7:52:16 PM -- JetInterop batch transaction stats: 66424. 2/26/2009 7:52:17 PM -- Dispatching transactions ends. 2/26/2009 7:52:17 PM -- Shutting down databases ... 2/26/2009 7:52:35 PM -- Instance2728.
Intel® 500 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 16341378 0 0 0 127667 MBytes / 1169 seconds (Sum) 0 0 127667 MBytes / 1169 seconds 16341378 0 Disk Subsystem Performance (of checksum) LogicalDisk Avg. Disk sec/Read Avg.
Intel® 500 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL maximum: 0.05 seconds/read). 2/26/2009 5:40:29 PM -- Log write latency thresholds: (average: 0.01 seconds/write, maximum: 0.05 seconds/write). 2/26/2009 5:40:29 PM -- Attaining prerequisites: 2/26/2009 5:44:11 PM -- \Database(JetstressWin)\Database Cache Size, Last: 242327600.0 (lower bound: 241591900.0, upper bound: none) 2/26/2009 5:44:12 PM -- Performance logging begins (interval: 5000 ms).
Intel® 500 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL Reads 15%, Lazy Commits 80%. 2/26/2009 5:52:14 PM -- Performance logging begins (interval: 15000 ms). 2/26/2009 5:52:14 PM -- Attaining prerequisites: 2/26/2009 5:52:14 PM -- \Database(JetstressWin)\Database Cache Size, Last: 267935700.0 (lower bound: 241591900.0, upper bound: none) 2/26/2009 7:52:16 PM -- Performance logging ends.