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| Egenera BladeFrame System for Microsoft Exchange Deployments Egenera Inc. has announced that Avanade Inc. has issued a white paper, "Egenera BladeFrame Exchange 2003 Performance Load Test, " which confirms that the Egenera BladeFrame system can be deployed in a high availability/high-volume Microsoft Exchange 2003 environment. Avanade performed the testing in response to the requirements of a large customer. The test environment was sized to support: -- Between 12, 000 and 16, 000 users as modeled by Microsoft's LoadSim 2003 using the Exchange MAPI Messaging Benchmark 3 (MMB3) user type -- A minimum of 12, 000 IOPS (disk I/Os per second) using Microsoft's JetStress 2003 tool Through testing, the Egenera BladeFrame servers were deemed capable of successfully supporting the targeted operational load. Specific benefits include: -- Stability: The Egenera BladeFrame test environment demonstrated the ability to support 12, 099 IOPS distributed across four mailbox servers. -- Scalability: The test environment demonstrated the ability to configure the Egenera BladeFrame to achieve throughput for 15, 800 MMB3 users. -- High Availability: The test environment demonstrated the ability to provide high availability successfully through multiple failover iterations. In each case, clients were able to automatically re-connect to a virtual server upon failover completion. -- Backup and Restore: The test environment demonstrated the ability to perform backup and recovery operations within acceptable limits. Testing also highlighted some unique features of the Egenera system that distinguish the BladeFrame from other products by: -- The speed in which it can be provisioned -- Its reduced datacenter footprint -- Its ability to reduce complexity (HBAs, NICs, cables, etc.) by abstracting the storage area network (SAN) and network components from individual servers -- Its tools to deploy, administer and operate systems remotely. The white paper can be downloaded athttp://www.egenera.com. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |