Best Practices for Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

Best Practices for Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Jeff Mealiffe Sr. Program Manager Microsoft Corporation

Quick Supportability Review

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Big Problems

3000 120 2500 100 2000 80 RPC Operations/sec % Processor Time 1500 60 RPC Requests RPC Averaged Latency 1000 40 500 20 0 0 Linear(RPC Operations/sec)

60 600000 50 500000 40 400000 30 300000 20 200000 10 100000 0 0 RPC Averaged Latency Available Bytes

45000 40000 35000 30000 25000 20000 15000 10000 5000 0 600000 500000 400000 Transition Pages Re. Purposed/sec Pages Output/sec 300000 Working Set (_Total) Working Set (store) 200000 100000 0 Available Bytes

140 1630000000 120 1625000000 100 80 1620000000 1615000000 1610000000 60 40 1605000000 160000 20 1595000000 0 1590000000 DB Writes Average Latency DB Reads Average Latency Database Cache Size

Best Practices

Hosts are clustered SAN Hyper-V uses Windows Server 2008 Clustering for HA VHDs reside on shared disk

Shared storage (SAN) DB 1 DB 2 DB 3 DB 4 DB 5 Hyper-V host 1 Hyper-V host 2 Hyper-V host 3

Shared storage (SAN) DB 1 DB 2 DB 3 DB 4 DB 5 Hyper-V host 1 Hyper-V host 2 Hyper-V host 3

Tools & Resources

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Configurations HP Blade. System Matrix and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010: http: //bit. ly/j. E 2 y. Pn Dell servers running in single site for 500 users: http: //bit. ly/lo. El 9 r Exchange Server 2010: HP Left. Hand P 4000 SAN for 5, 000 users: http: //bit. ly/m 7 z 7 B 4 Dell M 610 servers with Dell Equalogic storage for 9, 000 users: http: //bit. ly/kr. Uec. S Exchange Server 2010: Storage. Works EVA 8400 using CAEVA and CLX-EVA for 20, 000 users: http: //bit. ly/m. NAs. DO Dell R 910 servers with EMC CLARiion storage for 20, 000 users: http: //bit. ly/k. Wthf. D Configurations Unisys ES 7000 servers for 15, 000 users: http: //bit. ly/k. OBSuo Configurations EMC unified storage and Cisco unified computing system for 32, 000 users: http: //bit. ly/9 DBfo. B

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