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1 1 L Hitachi Unified Storage VM Dynamically Provisioned 120,000 Mailbox Exchange 2013 Mailbox Resiliency Storage Solution Tested with: ESRP Storage Version 4.0 Test Date: July - August 2013 Month Year

2 Notices and Disclaimer Copyright 2013 Hitachi Data Systems Corporation. All rights reserved. The performance data contained herein was obtained in a controlled isolated environment. Actual results that may be obtained in other operating environments may vary significantly. While Hitachi Data Systems Corporation has reviewed each item for accuracy in a specific situation, there is no guarantee that the same results can be obtained elsewhere. All designs, specifications, statements, information and recommendations (collectively, "designs") in this manual are presented "AS IS," with all faults. Hitachi Data Systems Corporation and its suppliers disclaim all warranties, including without limitation, the warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement or arising from a course of dealing, usage or trade practice. In no event shall Hitachi Data Systems Corporation or its suppliers be liable for any indirect, special, consequential or incidental damages, including without limitation, lost profit or loss or damage to data arising out of the use or inability to use the designs, even if Hitachi Data Systems Corporation or its suppliers have been advised of the possibility of such damages. This document has been reviewed for accuracy as of the date of initial publication. Hitachi Data Systems Corporation may make improvements and/or changes in product and/or programs at any time without notice. 1

3 Table of Contents Overview... 3 Disclaimer... 3 Features... 4 Solution Description... 6 Targeted Customer Profile Test Deployment Replication Configuration Best Practices Core Storage Storage-based Replication Backup Strategy Test Results Summary Reliability Storage Performance Results Backup and Recovery Performance Conclusion Appendix A Test Reports Performance Test Result: CB Performance Test Checksums Result: CB Stress Test Result: CB Stress Test Checksums Result: CB Backup Test Result: CB Soft Recovery Test Result: CB Soft Recovery Test Performance Result: CB

4 Hitachi Unified Storage VM Dynamically Provisioned 120,000 Mailbox Exchange 2013 Mailbox Resiliency Storage Solution Tested with: ESRP Storage Version 4.0 Test Date: July - August 2013 Overview This document provides information on a Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 mailbox resiliency storage solution that uses Hitachi Unified Storage VM storage systems with Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning. This solution is based on the Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) Storage program. For more information about the contents of this document or Hitachi Data Systems best practice recommendations for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 storage design, see Hitachi Data Systems Microsoft Exchange Solutions Web page. The ESRP Storage program was developed by Microsoft Corporation to provide a common storage testing framework for vendors to provide information on its storage solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server software. For more information about the Microsoft ESRP Storage program, see TechNet s overview of the program. Disclaimer This document has been produced independently of Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft Corporation expressly disclaims responsibility for, and makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the accuracy of the contents of this document. The information contained in this document represents the current view of Hitachi Data Systems on the issues discussed as of the date of publication. Due to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Hitachi Data Systems, and Hitachi Data Systems cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. 3

5 Features The purpose of this testing was to measure the ESRP 4.0 results on a Microsoft Exchange 2013 environment with 120,000 users and twelve servers. This testing used Hitachi Unified Storage VM with Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning in a two-pool RAID-10 (2D+2D) - one for databases and one for logs - resiliency configuration. These results help answer questions about the kind of performance capabilities to expect with a large-scale Exchange deployment on Hitachi Unified Storage VM. Testing used twelve Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 server blades in two chassis, each with the following: 64 GB of RAM Two quad-core Intel Xeon X GHz CPUs Two dual-port 8 Gb/sec Fibre Channel PCIe HBA (Emulex LPe1205-HI, using two ports per HBA) located in the chassis expansion tray Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise This solution includes Exchange 2013 Mailbox Resiliency by using the database availability group (DAG) feature. This tested configuration uses twelve DAGs, each containing twenty four database copies and two servers (one simulated). The test configuration was capable of supporting 120,000 users with a 0.12 IOPS per user profile and a user mailbox size of 2 GB. Hitachi Unified Storage VM with the following was used for these tests: TB 7.2K RPM SAS disks 128 GB of cache 24 8 Gb/sec paths used Hitachi Unified Storage VM is an entry-level enterprise storage platform. It combines storage virtualization services with unified block, file, and object data management. This versatile, scalable platform offers a storage virtualization system to provide central storage services to existing storage assets. Unified management delivers end-to-end central storage management of all virtualized internal and external storage on Unified Storage VM. A unique, hardware-accelerated, object-based file system supports intelligent file tiering and migration, as well as virtual NAS functionality, without compromising performance or scalability. The benefits of Unified Storage VM are the following: Enables the move to a new storage platform with less effort and cost when compared to the industry average Increases performance and lowers operating cost with automated data placement Supports scalable management for growing and complex storage environment while using fewer resources Achieves better power efficiency and with more storage capacity for more sustainable data centers Lowers operational risk and data loss exposure with data resilience solutions Consolidates management with end-to-end virtualization to prevent virtual server sprawl 4

6 Hitachi Unified Storage VM is highly suitable for a variety of applications and host platforms that support the most demanding workloads. With internal and external storage virtualization capabilities, advanced replication technologies, tiered storage features and a tightly integrated management suite, Hitachi Unified Storage VM is fully capable of serving as the core underlying storage platform of high performance Exchange Server 2013 architectures, while maintaining the ability to support additional workloads of an organization such as SQL Server and SharePoint Server. 5

7 Solution Description Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 requires careful consideration of all aspects of the solution architecture. Host servers need to be configured so that they are robust enough to handle the required Exchange load. The storage solution must be designed to provide the necessary performance while also being reliable and easy to administer. Of course, an effective backup and recovery plan should be incorporated into the solution as well. The aim of this solution report is to provide a tested configuration that uses Hitachi Unified Storage VM to meet the needs of a large Exchange Server deployment. This solution uses Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, which is enabled on Hitachi Unified Storage VM via a license key. In the most basic sense, Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning is similar to the use of a host-based logical volume manager (LVM), but with several additional features available within Hitachi Unified Storage VM and without the need to install software on the host or incur host processing overhead. Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning is a superior solution by providing for one or more pools of wide striping across many RAID groups within Hitachi Unified Storage VM. One or more Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning virtual volumes (DPVols) of a user-specified logical size (with no initial physical space allocated) are created and associated with a single pool. Primarily, Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning is deployed to avoid the routine issue of hot spots that occur on logical units (LUs) from individual RAID groups when the host workload exceeds the IOPS or throughput capacity of that RAID group. By using many RAID groups as members of a striped Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning pool underneath the virtual or logical volumes seen by the hosts, a host workload is distributed across many RAID groups, which provides a smoothing effect that dramatically reduces hot spots and results in fewer mailbox moves for the Exchange administrator. Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning also carries the side benefit of thin provisioning, where physical space is only assigned from the pool to the DPVol as needed. Space is allocated as needed as 42 MB pool pages to that DPVol s logical block address range. A pool can also be dynamically expanded by adding more RAID groups without disruption or requiring downtime. Upon expansion, a pool can be rebalanced easily so that the data and workload are wide striped evenly across the current and newly added RAID groups that make up the pool. High availability is also a part of this solution with the use of database availability groups (DAG), which is the base component of the high availability and site resilience framework built into Microsoft Exchange Server A DAG is a group of up to 16 mailbox servers that host a set of databases and logs and use continuous replication to provide automatic database-level recovery from failures that affect individual servers or databases. Any server in a DAG can host a copy of a mailbox database from any other server in the DAG. When a server is added to a DAG, it monitors and works with the other servers in the DAG to provide automatic recovery delivering a robust, highly available Exchange solution without the administrative complexities of traditional failover clustering. For more information about the DAG feature in Exchange Server 2013, see This solution includes two copies of each Exchange database using twelve DAGs, with each DAG configured with two server blades (one simulated) that host active mailboxes in twenty four databases. To target the 120,000 user resiliency solution, a Hitachi Unified Storage VM storage system was configured with 480 disks (maximum 1152). Twelve servers (one per DAG) were used, with each server configured with 10,000 mailboxes. There were 24 active databases and the simulated database copies for the tests. 6

8 Each DAG contained two copies of the databases hosted by that DAG: A local, active copy on a server connected to the primary Hitachi Unified Storage VM A passive copy (simulated) on another server connected to a second Hitachi Unified Storage VM (simulated). This recommended configuration can support both high-availability and disaster-recovery scenarios when the active and passive database copies are allocated among both DAG members and dispersed across both storage systems. Each simulated DAG server node in this solution maintains a mirrored configuration and possesses adequate capacity and performance capabilities to support the second set of replicated databases. Figure 1 illustrates the two systems that make up the simulated DAG configuration. For more information, see the Hitachi Data Systems Storage Systems web page. 7

9 Figure 1 8

10 This solution enables organizations to consolidate Exchange Server 2013 DAG deployments on two Hitachi Unified Storage VM storage systems. Using identical hardware and software configurations guarantees that an active database and its replicated copy do not share storage paths, disk spindles or storage controllers, making it a very reliable, high-performing, highly available Exchange Server 2013 solution that is cost effective and easy to manage. This helps ensure that performance and service levels related to storage are maintained regardless of which server is hosting the active database. If further protection is needed in a production environment, additional Exchange Server 2013 mailbox servers can be easily added to support these failover scenarios. The disks in Hitachi Unified Storage VM were organized into Parity groups for use by databases or logs. There were TB 7.2K RPM SAS disks used in these tests configured as 120 RAID-10 (2D+2D) parity groups for the Exchange databases and logs. Each Parity group had 4 LDEVs of 1.33 TB configured. The 432 LDEVs from Parity groups 4-25 to 8-4 were added to HDP Pool-0 ( Pool) and the 48 LDEVs from Parity group 8-5 to 8-16 were added to HDP Pool-1 (Log Pool). There were 288 V-Vol Groups (DPVol containers) created from HDP Pool-0 ( Pool) and each group had one 1980 GB DPVol created in it. Similarly, from HDP Pool-1 (Log Pool) 288 V-Vol Groups were created and each group had one 198 GB DPVol in it. The DPVols and Log DPVols were then assigned to the hosts as LUNs. 9

11 Table 1 outlines the port layout for the primary storage and servers. An identical configuration would be deployed on the replicated storage and servers for this solution. Table 1. Hitachi Unified Storage VM Ports to Server Mapping Configuration Server Primary path Secondary path CB10 5A 6A 5B 6B CB11 6A 5A 6B 5B CB12 7A 8A 7B 8B CB13 8A 7A 8B 7B CB14 1A 2A 1B 2B CB15 2A 1A 2B 1B CB16 3A 4A 3B 4B CB17 4A 3A 4B 3B CB18 1C 2C 1D 2D CB19 2C 1C 2D 1D CB20 3C 4C 3D 4D CB21 4C 3C 4D 3D 10

12 Table 2 outlines the port layout with the database DPVol assignments for the primary storage and servers. An identical configuration would be deployed on the replicated storage and servers for this solution. Table 2. Hitachi Unified Storage VM Ports to DPVol Layout Port DB DPVols 5A s :00 10:0B 5B s :0C 10:17 6A s :18-10:23 6B s :24-10:2F 7A s :30-10:3B 7B s :3C-10:47 8A s :48-10:53 8B s :54-10:5F 1A s :60-10:6B 1B s :6C-10:77 2A s :78-10:83 2B s :84-10:8F 3A s :90-10:9B 3B s :9C-10:A7 4A s :A8-10:B3 4B s :B4-10:BF 1C s :C0-10:CB 1D s :CC-10:D7 2C s :D8-10:E3 2D s :E4-10:EF 3C s :F0-10:FB 3D s :FC-11:07 4C s :08-11:13 4D s :14-11:1F 11

13 Table 3 outlines the port layout with the log DPVol assignments for the primary storage and servers. An identical configuration would be deployed on the replicated storage and servers for this solution. Table 3. Hitachi Virtual StoragePlatform Ports to Log DPVol Layout Port Log Log DPVols 5A Log :20-11:2B 5B Log :2C-11:37 6A Log :38-11:43 6B Log :F8-11:FF 7A Log :20-11:27 7B Log :28-11:2F 8A Log :30-11:37 8B Log :38-11:3F 1A Log :40-11:47 1B Log :48-11:4F 2A Log :50-11:57 2B Log :58-11:5F 3A Log :60-11:67 3B Log :68-11:6F 4A Log :70-11:77 4B Log :78-11:7F 1C Log :80-11:87 1D Log :88-11:8F 2C Log :90-11:97 2D Log :98-11:9F 3C Log :A0-11:A7 3D Log :A8-11:AF 4C Log :B0-11:B7 4D Log :B8-11:BF 12

14 Table 4 provides the detailed specifications for the storage configuration which uses RAID-10 (2D+2D) groups and 3TB 7.2K disks. Dynamic Provisioning Pool 0 is dedicated for the databases and Dynamic Provisioning Pool 1 is dedicated for the logs. Table 4. Hitachi Unified Storage VM Configuration Details Host Pool Port DPVol Size (GB) RAID Level Description CB10 CB11 CB12 CB13 CB14 CB15 CB16 CB17 CB18 CB19 CB20 CB21 CB10 CB11 CB12 CB13 CB14 0 5A/6A 10:00 10:0B 1980 RAID-10 s B/6B 10:0C 10: RAID-10 s A/5A 10:18-10: RAID-10 s B/5B 10:24-10:2F 1980 RAID-10 s A/8A 10:30-10:3B 1980 RAID-10 s B/8B 10:3C-10: RAID-10 s A/7A 10:48-10: RAID-10 s B/7B 10:54-10:5F 1980 RAID-10 s A/2A 10:60-10:6B 1980 RAID-10 s B/2B 10:6C-10: RAID-10 s A/1A 10:78-10: RAID-10 s B/1B 10:84-10:8F 1980 RAID-10 s A/4A 10:90-10:9B 1980 RAID-10 s B/4B 10:9C-10:A RAID-10 s A/3A 10:A8-10:B RAID-10 s B/3B 10:B4-10:BF 1980 RAID-10 s C/2C 10:C0-10:CB 1980 RAID-10 s D/2D 10:CC-10:D RAID-10 s C/1C 10:D8-10:E RAID-10 s D/1D 10:E4-10:EF 1980 RAID-10 s C/4C 10:F0-10:FB 1980 RAID-10 s D/4D 10:FC-11: RAID-10 s C/3C 11:08-11: RAID-10 s D/3D 11:14-11:1F 1980 RAID-10 s A/6A 11:20-11:2B 198 RAID-10 Log B/6B 11:2C-11: RAID-10 Log A/5A 11:38-11: RAID-10 Log B/5B 11:F8-11:FF 198 RAID-10 Log A/8A 11:20-11: RAID-10 Log B/8B 11:28-11:2F 198 RAID-10 Log A/7A 11:30-11: RAID-10 Log B/7B 11:38-11:3F 198 RAID-10 Log A/2A 11:40-11: RAID-10 Log B/2B 11:48-11:4F 198 RAID-10 Log

15 CB15 CB16 CB17 CB18 CB19 CB20 CB21 1 2A/1A 11:50-11: RAID-10 Log B/1B 11:58-11:5F 198 RAID-10 Log A/4A 11:60-11: RAID-10 Log B/4B 11:68-11:6F 198 RAID-10 Log A/3A 11:70-11: RAID-10 Log B/3B 11:78-11:7F 198 RAID-10 Log C/2C 11:80-11: RAID-10 Log D/2D 11:88-11:8F 198 RAID-10 Log C/1C 11:90-11: RAID-10 Log D/1D 11:98-11:9F 198 RAID-10 Log C/4C 11:A0-11:A7 198 RAID-10 Log D/4D 11:A8-11:AF 198 RAID-10 Log C/3C 11:B0-11:B7 198 RAID-10 Log D/3D 11:B8-11:BF 198 RAID-10 Log The ESRP Storage program focuses on storage solution testing to address performance and reliability issues with storage design. However, storage is not the only factor to take into consideration when designing a scale-up Exchange solution. These factors also affect server scalability: Server processor utilization Server physical and virtual memory limitations Resource requirements for other applications Directory and network service latencies Network infrastructure limitations Replication and recovery requirements Client usage profiles These factors are all beyond the scope of the ESRP Storage program. Therefore, the number of mailboxes hosted per server as part of the tested configuration might not necessarily be viable for some customer deployments. For more information about identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks in an Exchange system, see Microsoft's Troubleshooting Microsoft Exchange Server Performance. 14

16 Targeted Customer Profile This solution is designed for medium to large organizations that plan to consolidate their Exchange Server 2013 storage on high-performance, high-reliability storage systems. This configuration is designed to support 120,000 Exchange users with the following specifications: Twenty-four Exchange servers (twelve tested, twelve simulated for the database copies) Twelve database availability groups (DAG) each with two servers (one simulated) and two copies per database Two Hitachi Unified Storage VM (one tested) 0.1 IOPS per user (0.12 tested for 20 percent growth) 2 GB mailbox size Mailbox resiliency provides high-availability and used as primary data protection mechanism. Hitachi Unified Storage RAID protection against physical failure or loss. 24x7 background database maintenance enabled. 15

17 Test Deployment The following tables summarize the testing environment. Table 5. Simulated Exchange Configuration Number of Exchange mailboxes simulated 120,000 Number of database availability groups (DAGs) 12 Number of servers per DAG 2 (1 simulated) Number of active mailboxes per server 10,000 Number of databases per host 24 Number of copies per database 2 Number of mailboxes per database Simulated profile: s per second per mailbox (IOPS, include 20% headroom) 0.12 LU size Log LU siz Total database size for performance testing 1980 GB 198 GB 240,000 GB % storage capacity used by Exchange database** 41.2% **Storage performance characteristics change based on the percentage utilization of the individual disks. Tests that use a small percentage of the storage (~25%) might exhibit reduced throughput if the storage capacity utilization is significantly increased beyond what was tested for this paper. 16

18 Table 6. Storage Hardware Storage connectivity (Fibre Channel, SAS, SATA, iscsi) Storage model and OS/firmware revision Storage cache Fibre Channel 1 Hitachi Unified Storage VM Firmware: /00 WHQL listing: Hitachi Unified Storage VM 128 GB Number of storage controllers 1 Number of storage ports 32 Maximum bandwidth of storage connectivity to host 256 Gb/sec (32 8Gb/sec ports) Switch type/model/firmware revision HBA model and firmware Number of HBAs per host Host server type Brocade 5300, Fabric OS v7.0.1b Emulex LPe1205-HI FW : 1.11X14 2 dual-ported HBA per host, 2 8 Gb/sec port used per HBA Hitachi Compute Blade E55A GHz Intel Xeon Processors, 64 GB memory Total number of disks tested in solution 480 Maximum number of spindles that can be hosted in the storage 1152 Table 7. Storage Software HBA driver Storport Miniport HBA QueueTarget setting 0 HBA QueueDepth setting 32 Multipathing Host OS Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager v Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise ESE.dll file version Replication solution name/version N/A 17

19 Table 8. Storage Disk Configuration (Mailbox Store Disks) Disk type, speed and firmware revision SAS Disk 3TB 7.2K 6F-AD, FD-FD Raw capacity per disk (GB) Number of physical disks in test 3 TB 432 (dynamic provisioning pool) Total raw storage capacity (GB) 1,296,000 Disk slice size (GB) Number of slices per LU or number of disks per LU RAID level Total formatted capacity N/A N/A RAID-10 (2D+2D) at storage level 583,200 GB Storage capacity utilization 45.0% capacity utilization 44.0% Table 9. Storage Disk Configuration (Transaction Log Disks) Disk type, speed and firmware revision SAS Disk 3TB 7.2K 6F-AD, FD-FD Raw capacity per disk (GB) Number of spindles in test 3 TB 48 (dynamic provisioning pool) Total raw storage capacity (GB) 144,000 Disk slice size (GB) Number of slices per LU or number of disks per LU RAID level Total formatted capacity N/A N/A RAID-10 (2D+2D) at storage level 64,800 GB 18

20 Replication Configuration Table 10. Replication Configuration Replication mechanism Exchange Server 2013 Availability Group (DAG) Number of links 2 Simulated link distance Link type Link bandwidth N/A IP GigE (1Gb/sec) Table 11. Replicated Storage Hardware Storage connectivity (Fibre Channel, SAS, SATA, iscsi) Storage model and OS/firmware revision Storage cache Fibre Channel 1 Hitachi Unified Storage VM Firmware: /00 WHQL listing: Hitachi Unified Storage VM 128 GB Number of storage controllers 1 Number of storage ports 32 Maximum bandwidth of storage connectivity to host 256 Gb/sec (32 8 Gb/sec ports) Switch type/model/firmware revision HBA model and firmware Number of HBAs per host Host server type Brocade 5300, Fabric OS v7.0.1b Emulex LPe1205-HI FW : 1.11X14 2 dual-ported HBA per host, 2 8 Gb/sec port used per HBA Hitachi Compute Blade E55A GHz Intel Xeon Processors, 64 GB memory Total number of disks tested in solution 480 Maximum number of spindles that can be hosted in the storage

21 Table 12. Replicated Storage Software HBA driver Storport Miniport HBA QueueTarget setting 0 HBA QueueDepth setting 32 Multipathing Host OS Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager v Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise ESE.dll file version Replication solution name/version N/A Table 13. Replicated Storage Disk Configuration (MailboxStore Disks) Disk type, speed and firmware revision SAS Disk 3TB 7.2K 6F-AD, FD-FD Raw capacity per disk (GB) Number of physical disks in test 3 TB 432 (dynamic provisioning pool) total raw storage capacity (GB) 1,296,000 Disk slice size (GB) Number of slices per LU or number of disks per LU Raid level Total formatted capacity N/A N/A RAID-10 (2D+2D) at storage level 583,200 GB Storage capacity utilization 45.0% capacity utilization 44.0% Table 14. Replicated Storage Disk Configuration (Transactional Log Disks) Disk type, speed and firmware revision SAS Disk 3TB 7.2K 6F-AD, FD-FD Raw capacity per disk (GB) Number of spindles in test 3 TB 48 (dynamic provisioning pool) Total raw storage capacity (GB) 144,000 Disk slice size (GB) Number of slices per LU or number of disks per LU Raid level Total formatted capacity N/A N/A RAID-10 (2D+2D) at storage level 64,800 GB 20

22 Best Practices Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 is a disk-intensive application. It presents two distinct workload patterns to the storage, with 32KB random read/write operations to the databases, and sequential write operations of varying size (between 512 bytes up to the log buffer size) to the transaction logs. For this reason, designing an optimal storage configuration can prove challenging in practice. Based on the testing run using the ESRP framework, Hitachi Data Systems recommends these best practices to improve the performance of Hitachi Unified Storage VM running Exchange For more information about Exchange 2013 best practices for storage design, see the Microsoft TechNet article Mailbox Server Storage Design. Core Storage 1. When formatting a newly partitioned LU, Hitachi Data Systems recommends setting the ALU to 64K for the database files and 4K for the log files. 2. Disk alignment is no longer required when using Microsoft Windows Server Keep the Exchange workload isolated from other applications. Mixing another intensive application whose workload differs from Exchange can cause the performance for both applications to degrade. 4. Use Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Multipathing software to provide fault tolerance and high availability for host connectivity. 5. Use Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning to simplify storage management of the Exchange database and log volumes. 6. Due to the difference in patterns, isolate the Exchange database from the log groups. Create a dedicated Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning pool for the databases and a separate pool for the logs. 7. The log LUs should be at least 10 percent of the size of the database LUs. 8. Hitachi Data Systems does not recommend using LU concatenation. 9. Hitachi Data Systems recommends implementing Mailbox Resiliency using the Exchange Server 2013 Availability Group feature. 10. Ensure that each DAG maintains at least two database copies to provide high availability. 11. Isolate active databases and their replicated copies in separate dynamic provisioning pools or ensure that they are located on a separate Hitachi Unified Storage VMs. 12. Use fewer, larger LUs for Exchange 2013 databases (up to 2TB) with Background Maintenance (24x7) enabled. 13. Size storage solutions for Exchange based primarily on performance criteria. The number of disks, RAID level and percent utilization of each disk directly affect the level of achievable performance. Factor in capacity requirements only after performance is addressed. 14. Disk size is unrelated to performance with regards to IOPS or throughput rates. Disk size is related to the usable capacity of all of the LUs from a RAID group, which is a choice users make. 21

23 15. The number of spindles, coupled with the RAID level, determines the physical IOPS capacity of the RAID group and all of its LUs. If the disk has too few spindles, the response times grow to large values very quickly. Storage-based Replication N/A Backup Strategy N/A 22

24 Test Results Summary This section provides a high-level summary of the test data from ESRP and the link to the detailed HTML reports that are generated by ESRP testing framework. Reliability A number of tests in the framework check reliability spanning a 24-hour window. The goal is to verify the storage can handle high load for a long period of time. Following these stress tests, both log and database files are analyzed for integrity to ensure that no database or log corruption occurs. No errors were reported in the event log file for the storage reliability testing. No errors were reported for the database and log checksum process. If done, no errors were reported during the backup to disk test process. No errors were reported for the database checksum on the remote storage database. Storage Performance Results Primary storage performance testing exercises the storage with maximum sustainable Exchange type of for two hours. The test shows how long it takes for the storage to respond to an under load. The following data is the sum of all of the logical disk s and average of all the logical disks latency in the two-hour test duration. Individual Server Metrics These individual server metrics show the sum of the across the storage groups and the average latency across all storage groups on a per-server basis. Table 15. Individual Server Metrics for Exchange Server (CB10) Disk Transfers Per Second 1726 Disk Reads Per Second 1171 Disk Writes Per Second 555 Disk Read Latency (ms) 16.3 Disk Write Latency (ms) 2.0 Transaction Log Log Disk Writes Per Second 472 Log Disk Write Latency (ms)

25 Table 16. Individual Server Metrics for Exchange Server (CB11) Disk Transfers Per Second 1543 Disk Reads Per Second 1049 Disk Writes Per Second 494 Disk Read Latency (ms) 12.8 Disk Write Latency (ms) 1.4 Transaction Log Log Disk Writes Per Second 424 Log Disk Write Latency (ms) 0.4 Table 17. Individual Server Metrics for Exchange Server (CB12) Disk Transfers Per Second 1551 Disk Reads Per Second 1055 Disk Writes Per Second 497 Disk Read Latency (ms) 12.9 Disk Write Latency (ms) 1.5 Transaction Log Log Disk Writes Per Second 425 Log Disk Write Latency (ms) 0.4 Table 18. Individual Server Metrics for Exchange Server (CB13) Disk Transfers Per Second 1552 Disk Reads Per Second 1054 Disk Writes Per Second 498 Disk Read Latency (ms) 12.9 Disk Write Latency (ms) 1.5 Transaction Log Log Disk Writes Per Second 426 Log Disk Write Latency (ms)

26 Table 19. Individual Server Metrics for Exchange Server (CB14) Disk Transfers Per Second 1513 Disk Reads Per Second 1029 Disk Writes Per Second 484 Disk Read Latency (ms) 13.4 Disk Write Latency (ms) 1.7 Transaction Log Log Disk Writes Per Second 414 Log Disk Write Latency (ms) 0.6 Table 20. Individual Server Metrics for Exchange Server (CB15) Disk Transfers Per Second 1473 Disk Reads Per Second 1001 Disk Writes Per Second 472 Disk Read Latency (ms) 13.2 Disk Write Latency (ms) 1.6 Transaction Log Log Disk Writes Per Second 403 Log Disk Write Latency (ms) 0.6 Table 21. Individual Server Metrics for Exchange Server (CB16) Disk Transfers Per Second 1527 Disk Reads Per Second 1037 Disk Writes Per Second 489 Disk Read Latency (ms) 13.5 Disk Write Latency (ms) 1.7 Transaction Log Log Disk Writes Per Second 418 Log Disk Write Latency (ms)

27 Table 22. Individual Server Metrics for Exchange Server (CB17) Disk Transfers Per Second 1530 Disk Reads Per Second 1041 Disk Writes Per Second 490 Disk Read Latency (ms) 13.5 Disk Write Latency (ms) 1.8 Transaction Log Log Disk Writes Per Second 418 Log Disk Write Latency (ms) 0.6 Table 23. Individual Server Metrics for Exchange Server (CB18) Disk Transfers Per Second 1516 Disk Reads Per Second 1029 Disk Writes Per Second 486 Disk Read Latency (ms) 13.4 Disk Write Latency (ms) 1.7 Transaction Log Log Disk Writes Per Second 415 Log Disk Write Latency (ms) 0.6 Table 24. Individual Server Metrics for Exchange Server (CB19) Disk Transfers Per Second 1530 Disk Reads Per Second 1039 Disk Writes Per Second 490 Disk Read Latency (ms) 13.4 Disk Write Latency (ms) 1.7 Transaction Log Log Disk Writes Per Second 418 Log Disk Write Latency (ms)

28 Table 25. Individual Server Metrics for Exchange Server (CB20) Disk Transfers Per Second 1499 Disk Reads Per Second 1019 Disk Writes Per Second 480 Disk Read Latency (ms) 13.4 Disk Write Latency (ms) 1.8 Transaction Log Log Disk Writes Per Second 409 Log Disk Write Latency (ms) 0.7 Table 26. Individual Server Metrics for Exchange Server (CB21) Disk Transfers Per Second 1502 Disk Reads Per Second 1021 Disk Writes Per Second 480 Disk Read Latency (ms) 13.5 Disk Write Latency (ms) 1.8 Transaction Log Log Disk Writes Per Second 409 Log Disk Write Latency (ms)

29 Aggregate Performance Across All Servers Metric The aggregate performance across all server metrics shows the sum of across all servers in the solution and the average latency across all servers in the solution. Table 27. Aggregate Performance for Exchange Server 2013 Disk Transfers Per Second Disk Reads Per Second Disk Writes Per Second Disk Read Latency (ms) Disk Write Latency (ms) 1.73 Transaction Log Log Disk Writes Per Second Log Disk Write Latency (ms) 0.57 Backup and Recovery Performance This section has two tests: The first measures the sequential read rate of the database files and the second measures recovery/replay performance (playing transaction logs in to the database). Read-only Performance This test measures the maximum rate at which databases can be backed up via VSS. The following tables show the average rate for a single database file. Table 28. Read-only Performance MB Read Per Second Per MB Read Per Second Total Per Server Transaction Log Recovery/Replay Performance This test measures the maximum rate at which the log files can be played against the databases. The following table shows the average rate for 500 log files played in a single storage group. Each log file is 1MB in size. Table 29. Transaction Log Recovery/Replay Performance Time to Play One Log File (sec)

30 Conclusion This document details a tested and robust Exchange Server 2013 Resiliency solution capable of supporting 120,000 users with a 0.12 IOPS per user profile and user mailbox size of 2 GB using twelve DAG s, each configured with 2 server nodes (one simulated). A Hitachi Unified Storage VM storage system, with 128 GB of cache and sixteen 8 Gb/sec Fibre Channel host paths, using Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning (with two pools) and TB 7.2K RPM SAS disks in a RAID-10 (2D+2D) configuration was used for these tests. Testing confirmed that Hitachi Unified Storage VM is more than capable of delivering the IOPS and capacity requirements needed to support the active and replicated databases for 120,000 Exchange mailboxes configured with the specified user profile, while maintaining additional headroom to support peak throughput. The solution outlined in this document does not include data protection components, such as VSS snapshot or clone backups, and relies on the built-in Mailbox Resiliency features of Exchange Server 2013 coupled with Hitachi Unified Storage VM RAID technology to provide high-availability and protection from logical and physical failures. Adding additional protection requirements may affect performance and capacity requirements of the underlying storage configuration, and as such need to be factored into the storage design accordingly. For more information to about planning Exchange Server 2013 storage architectures for Hitachi Unified Storage VM, see This document is developed by Hitachi Data Systems and reviewed by the Microsoft Exchange product team. The test results and data presented in this document are based on the tests introduced in the ESRP test framework. Do not quote the data directly for pre-deployment verification. It is still necessary to validate the storage design for a specific customer environment. The ESRP program is not designed to be a benchmarking program; tests do not generate the maximum throughput for a given solution. Rather, it is focused on producing recommendations from vendors for Exchange application. Thus, do not use the data presented in this document for direct comparisons among the solutions 29

31 Appendix A Test Reports This appendix contains Jetstress test results for one of the servers used in testing this storage solution. These test results are representative of the results obtained for all of the servers tested. Performance Test Result: CB10 Test Summary Overall Test Result Machine Name Pass CB10 Test Description Test Start Time 8/11/ :20 Test End Time 8/11/ :45 Collection Start Time 8/11/ :26 Collection End Time 8/11/ :26 Jetstress Version ESE Version Operating System Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Service Pack 1 ( ) Performance Log C:\HUS_VM_C1B10_SAS7.2K_ESRP_R10_ 2 GB _mbox_users\performance Test\Performance_2013_8_11_10_21_48.blg Sizing and Throughput Achieved Transactional per Second Target Transactional per Second 1200 Initial Size (bytes) Final Size (bytes) Files (Count) 24 30

32 Jetstress System Parameters Thread Count 55 Minimum Cache Maximum Cache MB MB Insert Operations 40% Delete Operations 20% Replace Operations 5% Read Operations 35% Lazy Commits 70% Run Background Maintenance TRUE Number of Copies per 2 Configuration Instance260.1 Instance260.2 Instance260.3 Instance260.4 Instance260.5 Instance260.6 Instance260.7 Instance260.8 Instance260.9 Log path: C:\logluns\log1 : C:\dbluns\db1\Jetstress edb Log path: C:\logluns\log2 : C:\dbluns\db2\Jetstress edb Log path: C:\logluns\log3 : C:\dbluns\db3\Jetstress edb Log path: C:\logluns\log4 : C:\dbluns\db4\Jetstress edb Log path: C:\logluns\log5 : C:\dbluns\db5\Jetstress edb Log path: C:\logluns\log6 : C:\dbluns\db6\Jetstress edb Log path: C:\logluns\log7 : C:\dbluns\db7\Jetstress edb Log path: C:\logluns\log8 : C:\dbluns\db8\Jetstress edb Log path: C:\logluns\log9 : C:\dbluns\db9\Jetstress edb 31

33 Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Log path: C:\logluns\log10 : C:\dbluns\db10\Jetstress edb Log path: C:\logluns\log11 : C:\dbluns\db11\Jetstress edb Log path: C:\logluns\log12 : C:\dbluns\db12\Jetstress edb Log path: C:\logluns\log13 : C:\dbluns\db13\Jetstress edb Log path: C:\logluns\log14 : C:\dbluns\db14\Jetstress edb Log path: C:\logluns\log15 : C:\dbluns\db15\Jetstress edb Log path: C:\logluns\log16 : C:\dbluns\db16\Jetstress edb Log path: C:\logluns\log17 : C:\dbluns\db17\Jetstress edb Log path: C:\logluns\log18 : C:\dbluns\db18\Jetstress edb Log path: C:\logluns\log19 : C:\dbluns\db19\Jetstress edb Log path: C:\logluns\log20 : C:\dbluns\db20\Jetstress edb Log path: C:\logluns\log21 : C:\dbluns\db21\Jetstress edb Log path: C:\logluns\log22 : C:\dbluns\db22\Jetstress edb Log path: C:\logluns\log23 : C:\dbluns\db23\Jetstress edb Log path: C:\logluns\log24 : C:\dbluns\db24\Jetstress edb 32

34 Transactional Performance MSExchange ==> Instances Reads Latency (msec) Writes Latency (msec) Reads/sec Writes/sec Reads Bytes Writes Bytes Reads Latency (msec) Writes Latency (msec) Reads/sec Writes/sec Reads Bytes Writes Bytes Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance

35 Background Maintenance Performance MSExchange ==> Instances Maintenance IO Reads/sec Maintenance IO Reads Bytes Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance

36 Log Replication Performance MSExchange ==> Instances Reads/sec Reads Bytes Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance

37 Total Performance MSExchange ==> Instances Reads Latency (msec) Writes Latency (msec) Reads/sec Writes/sec Reads Bytes Writes Bytes Reads Latency (msec) Writes Latency (msec) Reads/sec Writes/sec Reads Bytes Writes Bytes Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance Instance

38 Host System Performance Counter Minimum Maximum % Processor Time Available MBytes Free System Page Table Entries Transition Pages RePurposed/sec Pool Nonpaged Bytes Pool Paged Bytes Page Fault Stalls/sec Test Log 8/11/ :20:57 AM -- Preparing for testing... 8/11/ :21:22 AM -- Attaching databases... 8/11/ :21:22 AM -- Preparations for testing are complete. 8/11/ :21:22 AM -- Starting transaction dispatch.. 8/11/ :21:22 AM -- cache settings: (minimum: MB, maximum: 6.0 GB) 8/11/ :21:22 AM -- flush thresholds: (start: 61.4 MB, stop: MB) 8/11/ :21:48 AM -- read latency thresholds: (average: 20 msec/read, maximum: 100 msec/read). 8/11/ :21:48 AM -- Log write latency thresholds: (average: 10 msec/write, maximum: 100 msec/write). 8/11/ :22:16 AM -- Operation mix: Sessions 55, Inserts 40%, Deletes 20%, Replaces 5%, Reads 35%, Lazy Commits 70%. 8/11/ :22:16 AM -- Performance logging started (interval: ms). 8/11/ :22:16 AM -- Attaining prerequisites: 8/11/ :26:22 AM -- \MSExchange (JetstressWin)\ Cache Size, Last: (lower bound: , upper bound: none) 8/11/ :26:23 PM -- Performance logging has ended. 8/11/ :45:13 PM -- JetInterop batch transaction stats: 15923, 15923, 15923, 15923, 15923, 15923, 15923, 15922, 15922, 15922, 15922, 15922, 15922, 15922, 15922, 15922, 15922, 15922, 15922, 15922, 15922, 15922, and /11/ :45:13 PM -- Dispatching transactions ends. 8/11/ :45:14 PM -- Shutting down databases... 8/11/ :45:17 PM -- Instance260.1 (complete), Instance260.2 (complete), Instance260.3 (complete), Instance260.4 (complete), Instance260.5 (complete), Instance260.6 (complete), Instance260.7 (complete), Instance260.8 (complete), Instance260.9 (complete), 37

39 Instance (complete), Instance (complete), Instance (complete), Instance (complete), Instance (complete), Instance (complete), Instance (complete), Instance (complete), Instance (complete), Instance (complete), Instance (complete), Instance (complete), Instance (complete), Instance (complete) and Instance (complete) 8/11/ :45:17 PM -- C:\HUS_VM_C1B10_SAS7.2K_ESRP_R10_ 2 GB _mbox_users\performance Test\Performance_2013_8_11_10_21_48.blg has 493 samples. 8/11/ :45:17 PM -- Creating test report... 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.1 has 16.6 for Reads Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.1 has 0.4 for Writes Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.1 has 0.4 for Reads Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.2 has 16.3 for Reads Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.2 has 0.4 for Writes Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.2 has 0.4 for Reads Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.3 has 16.3 for Reads Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.3 has 0.4 for Writes Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.3 has 0.4 for Reads Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.4 has 16.3 for Reads Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.4 has 0.4 for Writes Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.4 has 0.4 for Reads Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.5 has 16.4 for Reads Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.5 has 0.4 for Writes Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.5 has 0.4 for Reads Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.6 has 16.3 for Reads Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.6 has 0.4 for Writes Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.6 has 0.4 for Reads Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.7 has 16.3 for Reads Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.7 has 0.4 for Writes Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.7 has 0.4 for Reads Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.8 has 16.3 for Reads Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.8 has 0.4 for Writes Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.8 has 0.4 for Reads Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.9 has 16.2 for Reads Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.9 has 0.4 for Writes Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance260.9 has 0.4 for Reads Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance has 16.1 for Reads Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance has 0.4 for Writes Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance has 0.4 for Reads Latency. 8/11/ :45:30 PM -- Instance has 16.2 for Reads Latency. 38

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