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Saturday, November 21 - 2009

Red Hat: Scaling Microsoft Exchange in a Red Hat enterprise virtualisation environment

  • Middle East: Sunday, November 08 - 2009 at 15:18

This Red Hat white paper describes the performance and scaling of an industry-standard Exchange application, Microsoft Load Generator (LoadGen), running in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 guests under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, using the KVM hypervisor. The host system was deployed on a Dell PowerEdge R71 0 G6 server equipped with 72 GB of RAM and comprising dual sockets each with a 2.53GHz Intel Xeon E5540 (Nehalem) processor with support for hyper-threading technology, totaling eight cores and 16 threads.

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It illustrates the ability of Red Hat virtualisation to virtualise disk and network IO in both scale-up and scale-out scenarios.

The white paper demonstrates that for this particular application and workload, Red Hat virtualisation is more efficient at scaling-out than at scaling-up. In addition, the paper gives some general guidelines for optimising Exchange in such an environment.

Contents:
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation (RHEV)
- Kernel-based Virtualisation Machine (KVM)
- Traditional Hypervisor Model
- Linux as a Hypervisor
- KVM Summary
- Test Configuration
- Scaling Multiple 2-vCPU Guests
- Scaling Multiple 4-vCPU Guests
- Scaling Multiple 8-vCPU Guests
- Scaling-Up by Increasing the Number of vCPUs in a Single Guest
- Virtualisation Efficiency in Consolidation Scenarios

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