Intel RAID Controller SRCSASJV 500 Mailbox Compatibility Report

Intel® 500 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution

Intel

Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL

applications, directory and network service latencies, network infrastructure limitations, replication and

recovery requirements, and client usage profiles. All these factors are beyond the scope for ESRP-

storage. Therefore, the number of mailboxes hosted per server as part of the tested configuration

may not necessarily be viable for some customer deployment.

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

Server Chassis Intel

SC5400

Server Board Intel

S500PSL

CPU Two Intel

Xeon

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

Memory 4 GB DDR2 ECC

NIC Dual Intel

Gigabit Ethernet (Intel

82563EB)

RAID Controller Intel

SRCSASJV

Internal Boot Disk Qty. 1 - Seagate 320GB

Disk Array Disks Qty. 10 - Seagate Cheetah 15K.5, ST3146855SS, 146GB, 15K RPM

Targeted Customer Profile

This solution is intended for small and medium-sized organization hosting up to 500 mailboxes. The

configuration used for testing is:

 Number of mailboxes: 500

 Number of hosts: 1

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

 1 Storage Groups, 1 Databases

 Mailbox size: 250 MB