Specifications

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Dell Active System 800 converged infrastructure solution: User
collaboration performance
14. If the application prompts you to dismount, click Yes.
15. Click Finish.
16. Right-click Public Folder Database, and select Properties.
17. Check the Enable circular logging checkbox and uncheck the ESE scanning checkbox.
18. Click Customize next to Maintenance interval.
19. Remove all blue from the boxes so the system will not perform maintenance, and click OK.
20. Click OK.
21. On any warnings about circular logging being applied after the database is remounted, click OK.
22. Click Move Database on the far right panel.
23. Change the Database file and Log folder path locations to point to the two additional attached virtual disks
respectively, and click Move.
24. If the application prompts you to dismount, click Yes.
25. Click Finish.
Installing and configuring the Exchange 2010 mail test client (LoadGen)
For our testing, we used one physical client machine for the LoadGen workload. To create this client, we
installed Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and several other software components. We followed this process for the
configuration:
Joining the domain
1. Select StartControl PanelNetwork ConnectionsLocal Area Connection.
2. Click Properties.
3. Highlight Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and click Properties.
4. Select the Use the following IP address radio button, and enter the desired IP for your VM.
5. Select the Use the following DNS server addresses radio button, and enter the IP of the DNS server in the
Preferred DNS server field. Click OK.
6. Right-click My Computer, and select Properties.
7. Under the Computer Name tab, click Change.
8. In the Computer Name Changes screen, under Computer name, type loadgen as your computer name.
9. In the Computer Name Changes screen, under the Member of section, select the Domain radio button, and type
test.local
10. Select OK to start joining the domain.
11. When the screen appears asking for a person qualified on the domain, type administrator as the username
and Password1 as the password.
12. At the Welcome pop-up window and the window warning that you must reset the computer for the changes to
take effect, click OK.
13. At the System Properties screen, click OK.
14. When a pop-up appears asking if you want to restart now, click Yes to restart your computer.
Installing Internet Information Services
1. Click StartAdministrative ToolsServer Manager.
2. On the left pane, click Roles.