Troubleshooting

Migrating Exchange 2010 To Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager Environment
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Boot-up Persona and Install Agent .............................................................................. 22
Install Exchange Server ........................................................................................... 22
Create databases and users ...................................................................................... 22
Advantages of AIM and Exchange 2010 DAG being used together ............................................ 22
Performance Analysis of Exchange 2010 .......................................................................... 22
Database Latencies ................................................................................................ 23
Log Latencies ....................................................................................................... 25
RPC Results ......................................................................................................... 26
Exchange queue lengths .......................................................................................... 27
Disk Latencies ...................................................................................................... 28
Processor and Memory Utilization .............................................................................. 29
Summary ............................................................................................................... 30
Conclusion ............................................................................................................. 30
References ............................................................................................................. 31
Tables
Table 1. Hardware used in this study .............................................................................. 5
Table 2. Exchange 2010 test solution summary ................................................................. 8
Table 3. AIM-specific components ............................................................................... 10
Table 4. Networks for Exchange on AIM ......................................................................... 11
Table 5. Resource Configurations ................................................................................ 22
Figures
Figure 1. Exchange 2010 logical topology ......................................................................... 9
Figure 2. Exchange 2010 logical topology in AIM environment .............................................. 10
Figure 3. Physical cabling for Exchange on AIM: rack switches, blades and iSCSI storage .............. 12
Figure 4. Controller Web Management IP Address Settings. ................................................. 15
Figure 5. Parameters for the SCN Network and DHCP IP address range. ................................... 15
Figure 6. AIM Admin console screen .............................................................................. 16
Figure 7. AIM CLI on Windows ...................................................................................... 17
Figure 8. Exchange 2010 active database latencies ........................................................... 24
Figure 9. Exchange 2010 passive database latencies .......................................................... 24
Figure 10. Exchange 2010 database log latencies ............................................................ 25
Figure 11. Exchange 2010 database log latencies ............................................................ 25