Intel RAID Controller SRCSASRB 550 Mailbox Compatibility Report

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Intel® 550 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution
Intel
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Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL
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Tested Deployment
The following tables summarize the testing environment:
Description Data
Number of Exchange mailboxes simulated 550
Number of hosts 1
Number of storage groups / host 1
Number of mailbox stores / storage group 1
Number of mailboxes / mailbox store 550
Number of mailbox store LUNs / storage group 1
Simulated profile: I/O’s per second per mailbox 0.30 IOPS
Database LUN size 465 GB
Log LUN size 465 GB
Backup LUN size / storage group N/A
Total database size for performance testing 134.3 GB
% storage capacity used by Exchange database 28%
Primary Storage Hardware
Component Description
Storage Connectivity (Fibre Channel, SAS, SATA, iSCSI) SAS/SATA
Storage model and OS firmware
Storage cache 256 MB
Number of storage controllers One
Number of storage ports Two
Maximum bandwidth of storage 6 Gb/sec (2 x 3 Gb SAS ports)
Adapter model and firmware Intel
®
SRCSASRB
Number of adapters / host One
Host server type
Intel
®
S5000PSL, 2 Intel
®
Xeon
®
E5320 quad-
core (1.86 GHz), 8 total cores
Total number of disks tested in solution Four
Maximum number of spindles can be hosted in the storage 10