Intel RAID Controller SRCSASRB 900 Mailbox Compatibility Report

Intel® 900 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution

Intel

Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL

For more information on identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks in an Exchange system,

please refer to Microsoft's Troubleshooting Microsoft Exchange Server Performance, available at

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=23454

Test Server Configuration

Component Description

Intel

SC5400 Server Chassis

Intel

S500PSL Server Board

CPU 2 Intel

Xeon

E5320, quad-core, 1.86 GHz (8 total cores)

Memory 4 GB DDR2 ECC

NIC Dual Intel

Gigabit Ethernet (Intel

82563EB)

Intel

SRCSASRB RAID Controller

Internal Boot Disk Qty. 1 - Seagate 320GB

Disk Array Disks Qty. 6 - Seagate Cheetah 15K.5, ST3146855SS, 146GB, 15K RPM

Targeted Customer Profile

This solution is intended for small and medium-sized organization hosting up to 900 mailboxes. The

configuration used for testing is:

 Number of mailboxes: 900

 Number of hosts: 1

 User I/O profile: 0.50 I/O per second (IOPS)

 2 Storage Groups, 2 Databases

 Mailbox size: 250 MB