Specifications

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Hardware upgrades to improve database, SharePoint, Exchange, and
file server performance with the Intel processor-powered Dell
PowerEdge T630
v. At the Review and edit run settings for load test screen, enter 15 minutes for the Warm-up duration, enter
30 minutes for Run duration, 15 minutes for the Cool down duration, and click Finish.
6. To ensure that the WSSDW workload evenly selects different SharePoint sites at random, create .csv lists of a
number of categories within each test and add the following parameters to each:
 WSSD WSSDispForm: Site name, list name, and list IDs.
 WSSDocHTTPFetch: Site name, doc revision, document library name, and document name.
 WSSHomePage: Site name
 WSSSmallDocLibAllItems: Site name, and document library name
 WSSPutDocumentCoded: Site name
7. Add the following lines of code to the WSSPutDocumentCoded test:
[DeploymentItem("officeservertransactions\\siteNames.csv",
"officeservertransactions")]
[DataSource("Sites", "Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.DataSource.CSV",
"|DataDirectory|\\officeservertransactions\\siteNames.csv",
Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebTesting.DataBindingAccessMethod.Random,
Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebTesting.DataBindingSelectColumns.SelectO
nlyBoundColumns, "siteNames#csv")]
[DataBinding("Sites", "siteNames#csv", "siteName",
"Sites.siteNames#csv.siteName")]
8. At the "WebTestRequest request1" line, add:
+ this.Context["Sites.siteNames#csv.siteName"].ToString() +
Installing and configuring Iometer on the Iometer VMs
1. Download the Iometer 1.1.0 package for Windows from www.iometer.org/doc/downloads.html.
2. Double-click the installer, and click Run.
3. At the Welcome window, click Next.
4. At the License Agreement window, click I Agree.
5. At the Choose Components window, leave the defaults selected, and click Next.
6. At the Choose Install Location window, change the Destination Folder to C:\Iometer 1.1.0, and click Install.
7. When the installation completes, click Finish.
8. Create the appropriate access specification file on the VM.
Setting up the Iometer file server workload
We used the following settings for each test:
1. Open Iometer.exe.