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Virtualizing Exchange Workloads with Microsoft Hyper-V R2

Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst Brian Garrett, Vice President, ESG Lab

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Application Virtualization Timeline

100% virtualized Scalability Percent Virtualized
Tier-1

Performance Availability

Tier-2

Agility Manageability Consolidation

Utilities

Time

59% have not virtualized any tier-1 workloads

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ESG Server Virtualization Maturity Model

Percent of current virtualization users, by segment Basic, 22% Progressing, 53% Advanced, 25%

75% of the market

58% are less than 30% virtualized 75% expect to be more than 30% virtualized in 24 months

56% have less than 250 virtual machines deployed

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Factors Preventing Organizations from Using Virtualization

Collaboration and Training Virtual Stall

Best Practices

Application Performance

Lack of Understanding

Virtualization technology is not the barrier to success

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Accelerating Virtualization Adoption

Massive Opportunity
70% of organizations using more than one hypervisor

31% expect 25:1 VM consolidation in 24 months

75% expect to be more than 30% virtualized in 24 months Key Metrics for Gauging Virtualization Success

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Extent of Production VM-based Applications

E-mail

Why This Matters

Deployment flexibility Simplified administration Reduced hardware costs

Ability to improve service levels

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Insight into why and how these capabilities matter

Focused on usability, functionality, performance, scalability, total cost of ownership, etc.

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2010 ESG Lab Highlights: VM Scalability

Hyper-V R2 on 16 servers with Microsoft Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) stored on a single SAN attached disk array supported 1,024 virtual machines
Virtual Machine Scalability
1 through 16 Microsoft Hyper-V R2 Servers
1,024

896

Vrirtual Machines

768 640 512 384 256 128 0 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16

Clustered Hyper-V R2 Servers

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2010 ESG Lab Highlights: Mixed Workloads

Hyper-V R2 on 2 servers with 16 VMs sharing a single disk array:
18,750 mailboxes with the Microsoft Exchange 2010 Jetstress utility and 3,475 small database IOs per second with the Microsoft SQLIO utility and 650 MB/sec of database throughput with the SQLIO utility and 3,106 simulated web server IOPs with the Iometer utility and 413 MB/sec of simulated backup throughput with the Iometer utility with predictably fast response times and scalability
14,000 12,000

I/O's per second (IOPS)

10,000 8,000 6,000 4,000 2,000 0 1 2 3 4

Exchange SQL Server Web Server Scan/read

Virtual Machines
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2011 ESG Lab Test Bed (Physical)

HP BL680C up to 24 cores and 128 GB RAM per blade

2x4 Gbps FC per server

SAN

RAID-10 Pools:

EMC CX4-960 155 15K RPM FC disk drives

Data (88): Logs(16):

OS(24):
Apps(16):

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2011 Exchange Test Bed (Logical)

Application: Exchange 2010 VM configuration: 4 vCPU, 4 GB RAM Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
Hyper-V R2

Hypervisor: Microsoft Hyper-V R2 Physical OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

SAN

Virtual machine images: Exchange data and logs:

Fixed VHD Fixed VHD

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2011 Exchange Workload

Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress 2010
Scale from 5,000 to 20,000 simulated Exchange mailboxes 5,000 mailboxes per VM 250 MB mailboxes 0.15 IOPs per mailbox 2 databases/2 copies per VM

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2011 Exchange Workload Results

Hyper-V R2 Virtual Application Workload Scalability (Up to 20,000 Exchange 2010 mailboxes, Windows 2008 R2 SP1)
25,000 25 Exchange DB Read Response Time (ms)

20,000

20

Exchange 2010 Mailboxes

15,000

15

10,000

10

5,000

0 1 2 3 4

Hyper-V R2 Virtual Machines

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2011 Exchange Workload Results

Hyper-V R2 Virtual Application Workload Scalability (Up to 20,000 Exchange 2010 mailboxes, Windows 2008 R2 SP1)
8,000 7,000

Exchange IO Operations per second

6,000 5,000 4,000 3,000

2,000
1,000 0

Hyper-V R2 Virtual Machines

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Exchange Tested Solutions

Microsoft and participating server and storage vendors Key design decision points for common scenarios

Cost effective resource planning (server, storage, network)

Device Access Group and multi-site designs for HA

Documented results of exhaustive performance tests

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Exchange Tested Solutions Virtualized with Hyper-V R2

35,000 30,000 25,000

Exchange 2010 Mailboxes

20,000 15,000 10,000 5,000 0

Exchange Tested Solutions

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Exchange Tested Solutions Virtualized with Hyper-V R2

Hyper-V R2 VMs Solution
1 2 3 4

Mboxes
9,000 15,000 20,000 32,000

Sites
2 2 2 3

Cores
36 96 128 96

RAM(GB)
432 512 768 1,152

Drives
144 136 160 432

Mbox
9 12 16 24

CAS/Hub
9 8 16 12

Total
18 20 32 36

1. 2. 3. 4.

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2011 Exchange Results Summary

Hyper-V R2 Exchange Workload Scalability 20,000 simulated Exchange 2010 users on a single server in four Hyper-V R2 VMs with Jetstress Exchange tested solutions from 9,000 through 32,000 mailboxes The 32,000 mailbox solution was deployed in 36 Hyper-V R2 VMs over three sites

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The Bigger Truth

Why This Matters
A single Hyper-V R2 enabled server scaled to meet the IO performance requirements of 20,000 Exchange 2010 mailboxes. Exchange Tested Solutions virtualized with Hyper-V R2 met the scalability and performance requirements of 9,000 through 32,000 highly available Exchange 2010 mailboxes. The performance, scalability, and low overhead of Hyper-V R2 can be used to reduce costs and improve the manageability, flexibility, and availability of consolidated Exchange applications.
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Issues to Consider
Mileage varies; test with your workloads and your data Hyper-V Included for free with Windows Server 2008 Proven to perform with demanding applications

Accelerate the time it takes to move from pilot to production

Maximize investments Leverage ESG Lab Validations, Microsoft and its partners best practices/proof points

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Thank You

For more information, please contact Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst 508.381.5153 | mark.bowker@esg-global.com Brian Garrett, Vice President, ESG Lab 508.381.5160 | brian.garrett@esg-global.com

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