I need some face time with Exchange 2007. My previous two attempts to run it off the company’s data centre servers almost always got hijacked.
There was a big VIP meeting and the servers got pulled to support the backend. On top of that, add some customer requests, my VMs ended up being toast.
The next best thing was to run it as a guest on my notebook. Surprisingly it turns in a reasonable performance. I will try to post the loadgen results once it finishes.
Update. Here it is. The guest setup is 1 CPU, 384MB ram with 2x 8GB disks, on a Lenovo 3000 N100, 1GB RAM and 1.73G CPU. I think I need to increase the number of test users.
Microsoft Exchange Server Load Generator
Test Result SummaryResult: Succeeded
Topology ConfigurationTarget forest: CONTOSO
Total number of user groups: 2
Total number of users: 6
Total number of distribution lists: 0
Total number of dynamic distribution lists: 6
Total number of contacts: 0
Total number of external recipients: 2Simulation StatisticsSimulation started: 8/12/2008 9:46:05 AM
Scheduled run length: 00D:00H:40M:00S
Actual run length: 00D:00H:40M:22S
Stress mode: True
Remote: False
Load Generator Status* Note that if the load generator client only runs user groups with scripted modules, its task counters are expected to be zero.
Type Name Task Exceptions Task Queue Length Task Skipped Tasks Completed Task Dispatched
Master SG 54678 0 0 175369 175369
UserGroupsLoading…
Name Succeeded Client Type Action Profile User Count Tasks per User Day TasksCompleted
UserGroup2 Succeeded Outlook 2007 Online Heavy 3 132 139869
Task Execution Statistics
Task Name Count Actual Distribution(%) Configured Distribution(%) Average Latency 95th Percentile Latency
BrowseCalendar 12670 9 9 11 11
BrowseContacts 10755 7 7 13 11
BrowsePublicFolder 0 0 0 0 0
BrowseTasks 0 0 0 0 0
CreateContact 2102 1 0 217 1455
CreateFolder 0 0 0 0 0
CreateTask 1031 0 0 1984 6600
DeleteMail 0 0 0 0 0
DownloadOab 1075 0 0 0 0
EditRules 0 0 0 0 0
EditSmartFolders 0 0 0 0 0
ExportMail 0 0 0 0 0
InitializeMailbox 0 0 0 0 0
Logoff 3174 2 2 3 2
Logon 3 0 0 21166 21298
MakeAppointment 1038 0 1 20213 76231
ModuleInit 1 0 0 296 296
ModuleTerm 0 0 0 0 0
MoveMail 0 0 0 0 0
PostFreeBusy 4116 2 3 1 0
PublicFolderPost 0 0 0 0 0
ReadAndProcessMessages 84661 60 60 12 11
RequestMeeting 2142 1 1 0 0
Search 0 0 0 0 0
SendMail 17101 12 12 1644 5018
SynchronizeFolders 0 0 0 0 0
UserInit 0 0 0 0 0
UserTerm 0 0 0 0 0
Task Exceptions Statistics
Type Count
Microsoft.Exchange.Swordfish.SwordfishException 11
Microsoft.Mapi.MapiExceptionQuotaExceeded 99
Microsoft.Mapi.MapiExceptionSessionLimit 14121
Microsoft.Mapi.MapiExceptionShutoffQuotaExceeded 20853
UserGroup3 Succeeded Outlook 2003 Online Heavy 3 132 35500