Intel RAID Controller SRCSASJV 500 Mailbox Compatibility Report

Intel® 500 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution

Intel

Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL

Best Practices

Exchange Server is a disk-intensive application. Based on the testing runs using the ESRP framework,

we recommend the following Microsoft best practices for storage system design for Exchange Server

2007, available at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l

ibrary/bb124518.aspx.

Contact for Additional Information

Consult the Certified Intel RAID Configurations for Microsoft Exchange Servers document available at:

http://www.intelraid.com/tech.php

Test Result Summary

This section provides a high level summary of the test data from ESRP and the link to the detailed

HTML reports which are generated by ESRP testing framework. Please click on the underlined

headings below to view the HTML report for each test.

Reliability

A number of tests in the framework are to check Reliability tests runs for 24 hours. The goal is to

verify the storage can handle high I/O load for a long period of time. Both log and database files will be

analyzed for integrity after the stress test to ensure no database/log corruption.

The following list provides an overview: (click on the underlined word will show the HTML report after

the reliability tests run)

 No errors reported in the saved eventlog file.

 No errors reported in during the database and log checksum process.

Primary Storage Performance Results

The Primary Storage performance testing is designed to exercise the storage with maximum

sustainable Exchange type of I/O for two hours. The test is to show how long it takes for the storage

to respond to an I/O under load. The data below is the sum of all of the logical disk I/O’s and average of

all the logical disks I/O latency in the two hours test duration. Each server is listed separately and the

aggregate numbers across all servers is listed as well.

Individual Server Metrics:

The sum of I/O’s across Storage Groups and the average latency across all Storage Groups on a per

server basis.