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MMB3 Comparative Analysis Enterprise Product Group Dell White Paper By Scott Stanford Contents Executive Summary 5 Key Results 5 Introduction 6 The Test Environment 6 Comparing MMB2 to MMB3 8 Need for the Next Generation Workload 8 Why MMB Changed 8 What is the Same 8 So what is the same? 9 What has Changed 9 Evaluating MMB3 Results 13 Verification Process 13 Server Workload Analysis (MMB2 vs. MMB3) 14 Response Time (95th Percentile) 14 Exchange Information Store Database 15 Epoxy 17 Logical Disk Utilization 18 Memory 19 Microsoft Exchange DSAccess Caches 21 Microsoft Exchange Information Store 22 Microsoft Exchange Information Store Mailbox 25 Network 27 NTDS 27 Processes 28 Store 29 Processor 30 SMTP Server 30 How Do I know if my Server is Healthy? 32 How Can MMB3 Help Me? 34 Summary and Conclusion 36 Key Findings 36 Related Websites for More Information 37 Appendix A 38 What is MMB3? 38 Comparing MMB3 and MMB2 Workloads 38 Appendix B 44 LoadSim Action Comparison Table 44 Appendix C 46 Message Size Comparison 46 Appendix D 47 Message Action and Weight Comparison 47 Appendix E 49 Client Configuration 49 Appendix F 50 Server Configuration and OS/Exchange Tuning Parameters 50 Figures Figure 1: Database Table Open Cache Impacts 16 Figure 2: Database Page Evictions and Faults/sec 16 Figure 3: Epoxy SMTP Blocks and Bytes 17 Figure 4: Information Store and Transaction Logs Total Average Throughput 18 Figure 5: Information Store Total Average Disk I/O 19 Figure 6: Impact on Memory Subsystem 21 Figure 7: Read and Write Bytes RPC Clients/sec 23 Figure 8: RPC Latency and RPC Requests Relationship 24 Figure 9: RPC Operations and RPC Packets/sec 24 Figure 10: Microsoft Exchange IS Mailbox Delivery Rates per Minute 25 Figure 11: Microsoft Exchange IS Mailbox and Processor Utilization 26 Figure 12: Network Utilization 27 Figure 13: Processor Utilization 30 Figure 14: SMTP Server Local Queue and Categorizer State 31 Tables Table 1: Server Configurations for the MM