Tag Archives: ESRP

ESRP v3 (Exchange 2010) log playback results, 1Kmbox&under – chart-of-the-month

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Ray

The above chart is from our last Exchange [2010] Solution Review Program (ESRP) performance dispatch released in our October newsletter (sign-up upper right).  The 1K mailbox and under category for ESRP represents Exchange storage solutions for SMB data centers. As … Continue reading →

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Latest Microsoft ESRP v3 (Exchange 2010) 1K to 5K mailbox performance results – chart of the month

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Ray

Microsoft specifies two different metrics on sequential read rates for database backup activity in their Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) reports MB read/sec per database MB read/sec total per server Our problem with these metrics is that they don’t say … Continue reading →

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New file system capacity tool – Microsoft’s FSCT

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Ray

Jose Barreto blogged about a recent report Microsoft did on File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) results (blog here, report here).  As you may know FSCT is a free tool released in September of 2009, available from Microsoft that verifies a SMB … Continue reading →

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Recent ESRP v3.0 (Exchange 2010) performance results – chart of the month

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Ray

We return to our monthly examination of storage performance, and this month’s topic is Exchange 2010 performance comparing results from the latest ESRP v3.0 (Exchange Solution Review Program).  This latest batch is for the 1K-and-under mailbox category and the log … Continue reading →

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Latest ESRPv3 (Exchange 2010) results analysis for 1K-to-5Kmailboxes – chart of the month

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Ray

The chart is from SCI’s October newsletter/performance dispatch on Exchange 2010 Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP v3.0) and shows the mailbox database access latencies for read, write and log write.  For this report we are covering solutions supporting from 1001 up … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Exchange Performance, ESRP v3.0 results – chart of the month

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Ray

There have been a number of Microsoft ESRP submissions this past quarter, especially in the over 5K mailbox category and they now total 12 submissions in this category alone. The above chart is one or a series of charts from … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2010/ESRP 3.0 results – chart of the month

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Ray

Well after last months performance reversals and revelations we now return to the more typical review of the latest Exchange Solution Review Program (ESRP 3.0) for Exchange 2010 results.  Microsoft’s new Exchange 2010 has substantially changed the efficiency and effectiveness … Continue reading →

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ESRP 1K to 5Kmbox performance – chart of the month

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Ray

One astute reader of our performance reports pointed out that some ESRP results could be skewed by the number of drives that are used during a run.  So, we included a database transfers per spindle chart in our latest Exchange … Continue reading →

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