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TECHNOLOGY BRIEF (cont.) Microsoft Exchange 2000 Consolidation Using ProLiant Essentials Workload Management Pack ProLiant DL760 Server TC020602TB ... THE TEST PLATFORM: PROLIANT DL760 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 fans, and more. The ProLiant DL760 has been developed to meet the needs of customers requiring scalability and fault tolerance in a data center environment. With the latest performance, reliability, manageability, and serviceability features in a modular, dense 7U form factor design, this server provides an ideal solution for demanding enterprise applications. PCI-X is the next evolution of the PCI I/O standard and is backward compatible with PCI. Customers can install their existing PCI adapters in the ProLiant DL760 while investing in new PCI-X adapters. High speed PCI-X I/O technology was developed by Compaq and is being licensed to others in the industry. Today's mission-critical applications demand ever-increasing scalability and availability from data center servers. The ProLiant DL760, with new Intel Pentium III Xeon 900-MHz processors and PCI-X I/O, delivers the performance and uptime required to meet the current and future demands of enterprise server consolidation, e-business, ERP, thin client, compute engine, mail and messaging, and data mining applications. Based on the Profusion architecture jointly developed by Compaq, Corollary and Intel, the ProLiant DL760 offers excellent scalability driven by its balanced system architecture. Test Server Configuration Component Quantity Description CPU: 8 900-MHz Intel Pentium III Xeon processors CPU Cache: 2 MB RAM: 4 GB OS: Windows 2000 Advanced Server - build 2195 with SP1 Storage: 2 4-GB disks for OS/Exchange DS/MTA and NTDS (Active Directory) files 7 18.2-GB disks for log files (RAID 0) 56 18.2-GB disks for information store files (RAID 0) 7 18.2-GB disks for SMTP queue (RAID 0) Controller: 1 SmartArray 5i embedded RAID controller 3 SmartArray 5304 4-channel RAID controllers NIC: 1 Compaq NC3163 (100BaseTX) network interface card 5