Intel RAID Controller SRCSASRB 900 Mailbox Compatibility Report

Intel® 900 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution
Intel
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Server Chassis SC5400 and Server Board S5000PSL
Tested Deployment
The following tables summarize the testing environment:
Description Data
Number of Exchange mailboxes simulated 900
Number of hosts 1
Number of storage groups / host 2
Number of mailbox stores / storage group 1
Number of mailboxes / mailbox store 450
Number of mailbox store LUNs / storage group 1
Simulated profile: I/O’s per second per mailbox 0.50 IOPS
Database LUN size 272 GB
Log LUN size 136 GB
Backup LUN size / storage group N/A
Total database size for performance testing 219.8 GB
% storage capacity used by Exchange database 81%
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 1
Number of storage ports 2
Maximum bandwidth of storage 6 Gb/sec (2 x 3 Gb SAS ports)
Intel
®
SRCSASRB Adapter model and firmware
Number of adapters / host 1
Intel
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S5000PSL, 2 Intel
®
Xeon
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E5320 quad-
core (1.86 GHz), 8 total cores
Host server type
Total number of disks tested in solution 6
Maximum number of spindles can be hosted in the storage 10
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