Specifications

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Hardware upgrades to improve database, SharePoint, Exchange, and
file server performance with the Intel processor-powered Dell
PowerEdge T630
5. Select Create a new test configuration, and click Continue.
6. Change the total length of simulation to 1 hour and 15 minutes.
7. In the Specify test settings screen, type Password1 as the Directory Access Password and Mailbox Account
Master Password, and click Continue with recipient management.
8. Make the appropriate number of users in the Mailbox Database, and click Continue.
9. To accept defaults for Advanced recipient settings, click Continue.
10. In the Specify test user groups screen, select the plus sign to add a user group.
11. Change the Client Type to Outlook_500, the Action Profile to Average, and the Mailbox size to 250 MB.
12. Check the PreTestLogon checkbox, and click Continue.
13. In Remote configurations, enter the computer names of all of the test clients, check the checkbox to enable
distributing the workload, and click Continue.
14. Click Save the configuration file as, and name it testcfg.xml
15. Open the configuration file in notepad.
16. Search for FlowControlPoint. In that section, change <Enabled>true</Enabled> to
<Enabled>false</Enabled>
17. Search for MaximumThreadPoolThreads and change that from 80 to 16
18. Save and close the config file.
19. Close and restart LoadGen.
20. Open the saved (modified) configuration file in LoadGen and navigate through the screens until the summary
screen.
21. Check the Initialize public store as well checkbox, and click Start the initialization phase (recommended before
running the test).
Backing up the mail databases
On the Exchange server virtual machine, once we set up the LoadGen client and created its initial mail database,
we backed up the databases so we could have clean copies for each test.
1. Select StartAll ProgramsMicrosoft Exchange Server 2010Exchange Management Console in the mail
server.
2. In the left pane, expand Organization Configuration and Mailbox.
3. In the right pane, right-click each of the four Mailbox Databases, and select Dismount Database from the menu.
4. At the Do you want to continue? pop-up message, click Yes.
5. Right-click Public Folder Database, and select Dismount Database from the menu.
6. At the Do you want to continue? pop-up message, click Yes. The red arrow appears when you have dismounted
the Public Folder Store.
7. Using Windows Explorer, create a new folder: E:\backup\
8. With Windows Explorer, copy all database and public folder files from E:\Database to E:\backup. This process
may take several minutes.
9. Close Windows Explorer.