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 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® 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 276.27 Average Database Disk Reads/sec 288.943 Average Database Disk Writes/sec 263.597 Average Database Disk Read Latency (ms) 0.015 Average Database Disk Write Latency (ms) 0.037 Transaction Log I/O Average Log Disk Writes/sec 123.327 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® SRCSASRB 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 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 0.037 288.943 263.597 (n/a) Log (L:) 0.000 0.003 0.000 123.327 13245.089 Host System Performance Counter Average Minimum Maximum % Processor Time 0.891 0.
Intel® 900 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 3/7/2009 7:44:58 PM -- 16 sessions have actual 701 IOPS (target IOPS: 450) 3/7/2009 7:44:58 PM -- Volume M: has 0.0224 for Avg. Disk sec/Read. 3/7/2009 7:44:58 PM -- Process has average database read latencies higher than 0.020. 3/7/2009 7:44:58 PM -- Volume L: has 0.0031 for Avg. Disk sec/Write. 3/7/2009 7:44:58 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 3/8/2009 8:10:36 PM -- Volume M: has 0.0151 for Avg. Disk sec/Read. 3/8/2009 8:10:36 PM -- Volume L: has 0.0030 for Avg. Disk sec/Write. 3/8/2009 8:10:36 PM -- Volume L: has 0.0000 for Avg. Disk sec/Read. 3/8/2009 8:10:36 PM -- Test has 3.86709975664026 Maximum Database Page Fault Stalls/sec. 3/8/2009 8:10:36 PM -- Test has 0 Database Page Fault Stalls/sec samples higher than 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 17823896 0 0 0 139249 MBytes / 632 seconds M:\02\Jetstress1.
Intel® 900 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 3/7/2009 7:44:58 PM -- Volume L: has 0.0031 for Avg. Disk sec/Write. 3/7/2009 7:44:58 PM -- Volume L: has 0.0000 for Avg. Disk sec/Read. 3/7/2009 7:44:58 PM -- Operation mix: Sessions 8, Inserts 25%, Deletes 10%, Replaces 50%, Reads 15%, Lazy Commits 80%. 3/7/2009 7:45:28 PM -- Volume M: has 0.00013 for read latency slope.
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® SRCSASRB 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 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 0.036 304.503 284.661 (n/a) Log (L:) 0.000 0.003 0.000 141.810 14165.765 Host System Performance Counter Average Minimum Maximum % Processor Time 0.843 0.480 1.757 Available MBytes 2803.675 2789.
Intel® 900 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL (lower bound: 483183800.0, upper bound: none) 3/7/2009 11:20:22 AM -- Performance logging begins (interval: 5000 ms). 3/7/2009 11:20:22 AM -- Automatic tuning begins ... 3/7/2009 11:20:52 AM -- Volume M: has 0.00036 for read latency slope. 3/7/2009 11:22:52 AM -- 344 batch transactions/sec and 16 sessions have 655 IOPS.
Intel® 900 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 3/7/2009 1:43:24 PM -- C:\Data\Jetstress\DBChecksum_2009_3_7_13_25_48.html is saved. 3/7/2009 1:43:24 PM -- Verifying log checksums ... 3/7/2009 1:43:26 PM -- L:\01 (22 logs passed), and L:\02 (22 logs passed) 3/7/2009 1:43:26 PM -- C:\Data\Jetstress\Performance_2009_3_7_11_25_24.blg has 480 samples. 3/7/2009 1:43:26 PM -- Creating test report ... 3/7/2009 1:43:31 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 14759282 0 0 0 115306 MBytes / 507 seconds M:\02\Jetstress1.
Intel® 900 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 3/7/2009 11:15:51 AM -- Database read latency thresholds: (average: 0.02 seconds/read, maximum: 0.05 seconds/read). 3/7/2009 11:15:51 AM -- Log write latency thresholds: (average: 0.01 seconds/write, maximum: 0.05 seconds/write). 3/7/2009 11:15:51 AM -- Attaining prerequisites: 3/7/2009 11:20:21 AM -- \Database(JetstressWin)\Database Cache Size, Last: 484753400.0 (lower bound: 483183800.
Intel® 900 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL 3/7/2009 1:25:49 PM -- Performance logging begins (interval: 15000 ms). 3/7/2009 1:25:49 PM -- Verifying database checksums ... 3/7/2009 1:43:20 PM -- M: (100% processed) 3/7/2009 1:43:21 PM -- Performance logging ends. 3/7/2009 1:43:21 PM -- C:\Data\Jetstress\DBChecksum_2009_3_7_13_25_48.blg has 70 samples.