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3 Dell EMC PowerVault ME4 Series and Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 | 3925-BP-EX
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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
1 Predeployment ............................................................................................................................................................. 5
1.1 Storage virtualization options for ME4 Series .................................................................................................... 5
1.2 Understanding Exchange I/O ............................................................................................................................. 5
1.3 Exchange 2016 architecture changes ................................................................................................................ 5
2 Configuration ................................................................................................................................................................ 7
2.1 Disk layout .......................................................................................................................................................... 7
2.2 Disk groups and pools ........................................................................................................................................ 8
2.3 SSD read cache.................................................................................................................................................. 9
2.4 Data tiering ......................................................................................................................................................... 9
2.5 Resilient File System for Exchange 2016 database volumes (JBOD) ............................................................... 9
2.6 Default allocation unit size .................................................................................................................................. 9
2.7 Partition type ..................................................................................................................................................... 10
2.8 Mailbox server sizing considerations ................................................................................................................ 10
2.8.1 Archive mailboxes............................................................................................................................................. 11
2.9 Online database maintenance .......................................................................................................................... 11
2.9.1 Online defragmentation .................................................................................................................................... 11
2.9.2 Online database scanning (checksumming) .................................................................................................... 12
2.9.3 Database fragmentation ................................................................................................................................... 12
3 Exchange performance monitoring ............................................................................................................................ 13
3.1 Monitoring the database defragmentation process .......................................................................................... 13
4 Troubleshooting .......................................................................................................................................................... 14
4.1 ME4 Series performance monitoring ................................................................................................................ 14
4.2 Exchange Server 2013/2016 Diagnostic Service logs ..................................................................................... 14
4.3 Microsoft Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant (2007–2010) .......................................................................... 15
4.4 Microsoft Exchange Best Practices Analyzer (2007–2010) ............................................................................. 15
5 Recovery databases ................................................................................................................................................... 16
5.1 Single item recovery ......................................................................................................................................... 16
6 Disaster recovery with database copies and DAGs ................................................................................................... 17
A Technical support and resources ............................................................................................................................... 18
A.1 Related documentation ..................................................................................................................................... 18