Troubleshooting

Migrating Exchange 2010 To Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager Environment
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Creation of Personas
Refer to the persona creation section.
Creation of Server Pools
Refer to the server pool creation section.
Creating and Configuring AIM Networks
Refer to the Creating and Configuring AIM Networks section.
Boot-up Persona and Install Agent
Refer to the Boot Persona and Install Agent Section
Install Exchange Server
Once the persona is up and ready with the agent, you can install Exchange 2010. This installation will
be carried out on the iSCSI LUN directly since the OS has iSCSI booted.
Create databases and users
On successful Exchange installation, you can create Exchange users as per the solution described in
Table 2
Advantages of AIM and Exchange 2010 DAG being used together
The Exchange 2010 Database Availability Group (DAG) provides application level High Availability (HA).
AIM provides HA at infrastructure level, and complements the native HA implemented through DAG in
Mailbox Server roles to provide greater fault tolerance to the Exchange ecosystem.
In case of server failure, AIM can compensate for the failed server by bringing up the persona on AIM
managed standby server. During failover, Exchange‘s native high availability would be in action first,
because the Active Manager would detect the failure at the application level, including the cluster
nodes. A standby server brought up by AIM would be ready for database redistribution.
For example, if the server running persona exch-1 fails, Exchange native HA would detect the failure
and activate the passive copies on the server running persona exch-2, thus providing continued
messaging service. AIM would also detect the failure of server running persona exch-1 and will retarget
the persona to the stand-by server in the pool. Once the persona exch-1 boots up on the standby
server, it is ready for hosting the database copies to mount on exch-1.
Performance Analysis of Exchange 2010
This section describes the lab results obtained by running Loadgen with AIM managed Exchange 2010
multi-role servers. Loadgen is simulator software from Microsoft used to evaluate the capabilities of
Exchange 2010 solutions. The lab setup consisted of two Exchange 2010 multi-role servers with the
following hardware configuration. The servers required at least 20 GB of memory. These servers were
part of two-copy DAG.
Table 5. Resource Configurations
Servers
2 x M610
Processor (per server)
2 x quad-core Intel X5550 @ 2.67GHz
Memory (per server)
48 GB
Operating System
Windows Server 2008 R2
Exchange Version
Exchange 2010 SP1
Storage
2 x Equallogic PS 6000E