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supporting applications. By combining such applications onto a single or fewer servers and better managing resources used by these services, costs are greatly reduced and management of the environment becomes much easier. The ProLiant Essentials Workload Management Pack from the new HP, featuring - HP DL760 | Microsoft Exchange 2000 Consolidation Using ProLiant Essentials Workl - Page 2
Consolidation Using ProLiant Essentials Workload Management Pack ... NOTICE Compaq shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained additional warranty. Compaq and ProLiant registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Microsoft, Windows, and Exchange - HP DL760 | Microsoft Exchange 2000 Consolidation Using ProLiant Essentials Workl - Page 3
and allocate memory usage on a per process basis. In an Exchange 2000 server environment, the most compute intensive process is the store.exe process. Using RPM, an Exchange 2000 administrator can allocate a specific number of processors to store.exe and a specific number of processors to supporting - HP DL760 | Microsoft Exchange 2000 Consolidation Using ProLiant Essentials Workl - Page 4
, and initial testing indicates some potential benefits with as many as six processors. However, the resources of an 8-way server, such as the ProLiant DL760 server, may be better utilized through the partitioning of services, specifically by limiting the Exchange STORE process to four or six - HP DL760 | Microsoft Exchange 2000 Consolidation Using ProLiant Essentials Workl - Page 5
The ProLiant DL760 server was designed for mission-critical environments and offers an outstanding combination of high performance and high availability features, with 8 processors, 16 GB of SDRAM, 11 hot-pluggable 64-bit I/O slots (of which 8 are PCI-X slots), redundant hot plug power supplies and - HP DL760 | Microsoft Exchange 2000 Consolidation Using ProLiant Essentials Workl - Page 6
object technology in Windows 2000 to provide a quick and easy way to manage processor and memory resources dynamically.1 PARTITION CONFIGURATION On a server, RPM is used to create two resource partitions isolating Exchange 2000 Information Store processes from supporting application processes. The - HP DL760 | Microsoft Exchange 2000 Consolidation Using ProLiant Essentials Workl - Page 7
BRIEF (cont.) Microsoft Exchange 2000 Consolidation Using ProLiant Essentials Workload Management Pack ... Add the Active process will remain in a pending state until the partition is activated by the RPM service. Partitions are either Available (not started) or Active. When a partition is - HP DL760 | Microsoft Exchange 2000 Consolidation Using ProLiant Essentials Workl - Page 8
.exe process is already running, Information Store Service and other Exchange 2000 services that are dependent upon the Information Store Service will fail. To avoid this problem, an administrator can manually create a DependOnService service entry in the RPM service registry key, as shown in Figure - HP DL760 | Microsoft Exchange 2000 Consolidation Using ProLiant Essentials Workl - Page 9
Figure 4 indicates that for this 8-processor ProLiant DL760 server, two partitions have been created: supporting applications. The store.exe process is running but not currently managed by RPM, while the processes assigned to the manageapp partition are running on the processors configured to service - HP DL760 | Microsoft Exchange 2000 Consolidation Using ProLiant Essentials Workl - Page 10
TECHNOLOGY BRIEF (cont.) Microsoft Exchange 2000 Consolidation Using ProLiant Essentials Workload Management Pack ... Resource Partition Properties The Resource Partition Properties screen in Figure 5 shows the EXStore partition assigned to processors 1 through 6 for use by the store.exe process - HP DL760 | Microsoft Exchange 2000 Consolidation Using ProLiant Essentials Workl - Page 11
ProLiant Essentials Workload Management Pack ... The Resource Partition Properties screen in Figure 6 shows that the manageapp partition is assigned to processors 7 and 8 for use by the supporting applications. The manageapp partition is also configured to start automatically when the RPM service - HP DL760 | Microsoft Exchange 2000 Consolidation Using ProLiant Essentials Workl - Page 12
analysis yields information to improve overall server utilization. Administrators can set up rules to avoid current or future bottlenecks. Partition Processor Utilization Figure 7 shows the Resource Partitioning Manager screen for another 8-processor, ProLiant DL760 system running Exchange 2000 and - HP DL760 | Microsoft Exchange 2000 Consolidation Using ProLiant Essentials Workl - Page 13
280 GB of data in the information store. The manual scan lasted 8 hours and 54 minutes; overall CPU utilization was 66.9 percent for all eight processors as recorded by the Windows 2000 performance monitor (PerfMon). During the scan, processors 1 through 6, which were assigned to the stor partition - HP DL760 | Microsoft Exchange 2000 Consolidation Using ProLiant Essentials Workl - Page 14
2000 Consolidation Using ProLiant Essentials Workload Management Pack ... CONCLUSION An effective server consolidation scenario for use Resource Partitioning Manager to isolate Exchange 2000 server processes from supporting applications and thereby facilitate consolidation of resources. With
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June 2002
Compaq Computer
Corporation
Prepared by
ISS Solutions
Engineering and ISS
Enterprise Marketing
Programs
C
ONTENTS
Abstract
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1
Introduction
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3
Exchange 2000
Consolidation
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3
The Test Platform:
ProLiant
DL760
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5
Resource Partitioning
Manager
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6
Partition Configuration
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6
Add the Active Process
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6
Add the Active Process to
Resource Partition
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7
Registry Setting for Exchange
2000
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8
Processor Utilization
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9
Resource Partition Properties10
Partition Performance
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12
Partition Processor Utilization12
Partition Rules
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13
Test Results
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13
Conclusion
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Microsoft Exchange 2000 Consolidation
Using ProLiant Essentials Workload
Management Pack
A
BSTRACT
Increasingly, today’s enterprises need to reduce costs while increasing uptime and better
leveraging hardware and software investments. One of the most effective means of cost
reduction is consolidating applications spread across the IT infrastructure.
A Microsoft
Exchange 2000 environment, for example, often requires multiple servers and multiple
supporting applications.
By combining such applications onto a single or fewer servers
and better managing resources used by these services, costs are greatly reduced and
management of the environment becomes much easier.
The ProLiant Essentials Workload Management Pack from the new HP, featuring
Resource Partitioning Manager (RPM), enables system administrators to set processor
affinity and allocate memory usage on a per process basis to maximize system
performance.
This paper explains how to set up and configure RPM partitions for use
with Microsoft Exchange 2000 and supporting applications and to ensure a consolidation
scenario that can be easily deployed and managed in the enterprise.
Please direct comments regarding this communication to the ISS Technology Communications Group at this Internet
address:
1
TC020602TB