<p class="NumberedList1" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: .25in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">1.</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">     </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Identify three Exchange mailbox servers to use for your baseline performance gathering. These should be high-end servers that service your most aggressive e-mail users. For this procedure, these servers will be referred to as ex2003base. Often different sites have different types of users. Sometimes it is useful to get mailbox profile data for each site and have different standard mailbox profiles—one for each site.</span></span></p>
<p class="NumberedList1" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: .25in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><!--more-->2.</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">     </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Monitor the ex2003base servers for a 24 hour period on the day that usually experiences peak load (Monday for many companies). On that peak load day, start the Perfmon log on each server at 4:00 A.M and let it run for 24 hours. </span></span></p>
<p class="NumberedList1" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: .25in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">3.</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">     </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Log the following Perfmon objects (all counters, all instances) at 15 second intervals:</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 1in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Logical Disk</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 1in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">MSExchangeIS</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 1in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Physical Disk</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 1in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Processor</span></span></p>
<p class="NumberedList1" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: .25in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">4.</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">     </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Compile the following data from the ex2003base servers:</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 1in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Determine the average mailbox size of the three ex2003base servers. To help determine future storage performance needs, you will use the average mailbox size. </span></span></p>
<p class="AlertLabelinList1" style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt 0.25in"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes"></span><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Note: </span></span></strong></p>
<p class="AlertTextinList1" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0.25in 3pt 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">        ·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A mailbox size limit is required to adequately size the storage size/performance for a given user base.</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.75in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Determine how many mailboxes are on each ex2003base server. This will allow you to determine accurate I/O per mailbox averages for each server later in this process.</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.75in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Determine which of your ex2003base server volumes are used for each Exchange function, such as transaction logs, databases, and MTA queues.</span></span></p>
<p class="NumberedList1" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: .25in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">5.</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">     </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Individually analyze each of the three Perfmon logs collected in Step 3. For each log, perform the following steps.</span></span></p>
<p class="NumberedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 1in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">a.</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">     </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In Perfmon, open the Perfmon log.</span></span></p>
<p class="NumberedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 1in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">b.</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">     </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Add the following counters:</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 1.25in; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo6; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">o</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">    </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">MSExchangeIS-&gt;RPC Operations/sec</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 1.25in; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo6; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">o</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">    </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Logical Disk-&gt;Disk Transfers/sec-&gt;Instance=Drive letter that houses the Exchange Store database. (Add all drive letters that contain Exchange Database files).</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 1.25in; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo6; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">o</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">    </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Processor-&gt;%Processor-&gt;Instance=Total</span></span></p>
<p class="NumberedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 1in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">c.</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">     </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Set the scale so that all counters fall within the 0-100 x axis (so 1 minute variations of all counters can be viewed). Display the Graph View.</span></span></p>
<p class="NumberedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 1in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">d.</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">     </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Analyze the Perfmon data and identify a one hour period in which all three counters are highest (RPC Operations/sec, Disk Transfers/sec and Processor utilization). You should see a plateau where utilization is high for extended periods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></span></span></p>
<p class="NumberedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 1in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">e.</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">     </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">After you determine this one hour window, reduce the Timeline of the Perfmon log to match this window.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </span></span></span></p>
<p class="NumberedList1" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: .25in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">6.</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">     </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">From this one hour window, record the following metrics (Average) for each of the ex2003base servers:</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.75in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">RPC Operations/sec:</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.75in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Disk Transfers/sec:</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.75in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">% Processor Time:</span></span></p>
<p class="NumberedList1" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: .25in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">7.</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">     </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">Use this data to populate the Server_Sizing.xls spreadsheet that is included with the </span><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69063"><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;">download of Optimizing Storage for Exchange Server 2003</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">.</span></span></p>
<p class="NumberedList1" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: .25in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">8.</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">     </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Identify the ex2003base server that experienced the highest load. Use the data collected from the server with the highest load as your server/processor/storage baseline. Use the following best practices:</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.75in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Always design your system to allow 20 percent more utilization than you expect for peaks. This allows the storage and processors to handle spikes during peak periods.</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.75in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Megacycles per mailbox and IOPS per mailbox change as the server configuration changes. The following list includes potential factors that can change the given megacycles per mailbox and IOPS per mailbox.</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.75in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mailbox sizes are changed significantly</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.75in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Max message size is changed significantly</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.75in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Third party applications are added or removed</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.75in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Exchange features are added or removed.</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.75in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Average concurrency of the users changes (more or less users are online using the system at any given time).</span></span></p>
<p class="NumberedList1" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: .25in"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">9.</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">     </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">After the spreadsheet (included with the download of the guide Optimizing Storage for Exchange Server 2003) is populated and your mailbox profiles are determined, you can design your storage solution. For example, if your analysis indicates that your standard mailbox profile translates to .75 IOPS per mailbox and 1.25 megacycles per mailbox, you can determine the following requirements for a 4,000 mailbox server:</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.75in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mailbox Count: 4,000</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.75in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Peak DB IOPS: (4,000 × .75) = 3,000</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.75in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Peak Log IOPS: (DB IOPS/10) = 300</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.75in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Peak megacycles: (4,000 × 1.25) = 5,000 megacycles</span></span></p>
<p class="TextinList1" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">To handle spikes, you should add a 20 percent buffer to your processor and storage design. With the addition of this buffer, the minimum hardware requirements for this example are:</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.75in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mailbox count: 4,000</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.75in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Peak DB IOPS: (3,000 + 20%) = 3,600</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.75in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Peak Log IOPS: (300 + 20%) = 360</span></span></p>
<p class="BulletedList2" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.75in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: .5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small;">·</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Peak Megacycles: (5,000 + 20%) = 6,000 megacycles</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">10.</span><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">  </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;">To support these requirements, your minimum hardware for each mailbox server should be dual 3,000 mhz processors, 4 GB RAM, and storage capable of accommodating 3,600 random DB IOPS, and 360 sequential transaction log write IOPS.</span></p>