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EMC BACKUP AND RECOVERY FOR
MICROSOFT EXCHANGE AND
SHAREPOINT 2010 SERVERS
EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
   • Improved multi-streaming backups with Avamar
   • Backup space savings with deduplication




                 EMC Solutions Group

                 Abstract
                 This white paper explains the testing and validation of the backup and recovery
                 capabilities and benefits of EMC® Avamar™ in a virtualized Microsoft
                 SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environment on EMC
                 VNX™.

                 March 2012
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Part Number: H8936




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Table of contents
  Executive summary ............................................................................................................................. 6
     Business case .................................................................................................................................. 6
        Microsoft Exchange 2010 ............................................................................................................ 6
        Microsoft SharePoint 2010 .......................................................................................................... 6
     Solution overview ............................................................................................................................ 6
     Key results ....................................................................................................................................... 7

  Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 8
     Purpose ........................................................................................................................................... 8
     Scope .............................................................................................................................................. 8
     Audience.......................................................................................................................................... 8

  Technology overview .......................................................................................................................... 9
     Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 9
     EMC Avamar ..................................................................................................................................... 9
        Application plug-ins .................................................................................................................... 9
     EMC VNX .......................................................................................................................................... 9
     VMware vCenter ............................................................................................................................. 10
        VMware vCenter Server .............................................................................................................. 10
     VMware vSphere ............................................................................................................................ 10
     Kroll Ontrack PowerControls ........................................................................................................... 10

  Configuration ................................................................................................................................... 11
    Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 11
    Physical environment ..................................................................................................................... 11
    Hardware resources ....................................................................................................................... 12
    Software resources ........................................................................................................................ 13
    Disk layout ..................................................................................................................................... 14
    Networking .................................................................................................................................... 15
    Environment profile........................................................................................................................ 16

  Deployment ...................................................................................................................................... 17
    Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 17
    VNX5500 ....................................................................................................................................... 17
    VMware vCenter Server .................................................................................................................. 17
    VMware vSphere ............................................................................................................................ 17
    Avamar .......................................................................................................................................... 17
    Load balancer ................................................................................................................................ 18
    Kroll Ontrack PowerControls ........................................................................................................... 18




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Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 ...................................................................................................... 19
  Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 19
  Design ........................................................................................................................................... 19
  Configuration ................................................................................................................................. 20
  Jetstress validation ........................................................................................................................ 21

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 .................................................................................................... 23
  Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 23
  Design ........................................................................................................................................... 23
  Test methodology .......................................................................................................................... 23
  Configuration ................................................................................................................................. 23

Backup testing methodology ............................................................................................................ 25
  Backup methodology ..................................................................................................................... 25
  Data change rates explained .......................................................................................................... 25
  Test types ...................................................................................................................................... 25
     Initial baseline performance ...................................................................................................... 25
     No data change and no load backup ......................................................................................... 25
     Percentage data change with no load backup ............................................................................ 25
     Same daily percentage data change with full user load backup ................................................. 26
  Backup configuration ..................................................................................................................... 26
     Exchange configuration ............................................................................................................. 26
     SharePoint configuration ........................................................................................................... 28

Summary of test results .................................................................................................................... 31
  Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 31
  Summary charts and tables for backups and restores .................................................................... 31
     Exchange backups .................................................................................................................... 31
     SharePoint backups .................................................................................................................. 32
     Exchange restores ..................................................................................................................... 32
     SharePoint restores ................................................................................................................... 33
     Deduplication measurements.................................................................................................... 34
  Detailed observations .................................................................................................................... 34
     Performance testing results ....................................................................................................... 34
  Benefits ......................................................................................................................................... 35
  Notes and recommendations ......................................................................................................... 36

Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................... 37
  Summary ....................................................................................................................................... 37
  Findings ......................................................................................................................................... 37




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References ....................................................................................................................................... 39
   White papers ................................................................................................................................. 39
   Product documentation.................................................................................................................. 39

Appendix A: Detailed test results ...................................................................................................... 40
  Baseline application performance testing ...................................................................................... 41
     Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 41
     Exchange 2010 Server ............................................................................................................... 41
     SharePoint 2010 Server............................................................................................................. 46
  Avamar: Backup testing with no data change and no load.............................................................. 49
     Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 49
     SharePoint 2010 Server: Test results ......................................................................................... 49
  Combined Avamar backup testing: With data change and without load ......................................... 51
     Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 51
     Exchange 2010 Server: Test results ........................................................................................... 51
     SharePoint 2010 Server: Test results ......................................................................................... 52
  Combined Avamar backup testing: With data change and load ...................................................... 54
     Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 54
     Exchange 2010 Server: Test results ........................................................................................... 54
     SharePoint 2010 Server: Test results ......................................................................................... 58
  Avamar test results with encryption ............................................................................................... 62
     Exchange................................................................................................................................... 62
     SharePoint ................................................................................................................................ 62
     Avamar performance with encryption ........................................................................................ 62
  Restore testing: Avamar Exchange native GLR restore .................................................................... 63
     Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 63
     Exchange 2010 Server: Test results ........................................................................................... 63
  Restore testing: Avamar/Exchange database recovery ................................................................... 64
     Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 64
     Exchange 2010 Server: Test results ........................................................................................... 64
  Restore testing: Avamar/ SharePoint VSS restore of site collection database ................................. 65
     Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 65
     Test results ................................................................................................................................ 65
  Avamar restore testing: Kroll recovery of a site and single item in SharePoint ................................. 66
     Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 66
     List restore ................................................................................................................................ 66
     Single-item restore .................................................................................................................... 68
  Hardware load balancing ............................................................................................................... 69
     Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 69
     Test results ................................................................................................................................ 70




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Executive summary
Business case       Data is one of the single most valuable assets a company can own. With the
                    explosion in both the volume of data being retained and its speed of change, you are
                    challenged to ensure constant access and protection against corruption or loss,
                    either through hardware, environmental, or man-made disasters. The introduction of
                    virtualization and the move to the cloud also further complicates this challenge.

                    Downtime can represent failure to critical business processes, which can effectively
                    halt business operations and lead to lost revenue, regulatory fines, and, potentially,
                    lost customers. The loss of even some megabytes of data in recovery can amount to
                    hundreds and thousands of transactions lost, which affects businesses in terms of
                    financial revenue, operational effectiveness, and legal obligation.

                    Microsoft often forms the foundation for today's most demanding, enterprise-level,
                    transaction-based companies. Microsoft SharePoint Server and Exchange may be core
                    platforms within the mission-critical framework for many businesses. Availability and
                    recoverability become critical factors when designing the supporting IT infrastructure.

                    Microsoft Exchange 2010
                    Customers are striving to provide users with larger mailboxes while reducing their
                    businesses' Exchange backup data storage requirements and complexity. With
                    current trends, Exchange users' mailbox sizes are growing rapidly, thus making it
                    more challenging, if not impossible, to back up all of the Exchange data within the
                    nightly backup windows.

                    Microsoft SharePoint 2010
                    SharePoint collaboration is an integral part of many businesses. Designing and
                    building a database infrastructure that supports this collaboration and protects the
                    data is a major challenge.

                    SharePoint is always on and accessed by users. At the same time, users store more
                    and more data. In many cases, it is not acceptable to take the SharePoint application
                    and its databases offline for nightly backups. If you require a restore, it must happen
                    quickly with minimum impact to users.

Solution overview   This solution offers an efficient approach to protect Microsoft Exchange 2010 and
                    Microsoft SharePoint 2010 on a physical or virtualized environment. This solution
                    uses a virtualized environment.

                    EMC® Avamar™ provides comprehensive backup and recovery for Microsoft
                    environments by using Avamar 6.0 Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) agent. This
                    solution tests and validates Avamar and provides recommendations and best
                    practices for using Avamar to back up Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint based on
                    the test results.

                    Avamar multi-streaming is highlighted, which enables higher throughput of backups.




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Key results   Benefits of the solution for Exchange and SharePoint are:
                •   Enables a rapid yet application-consistent backup and restore using Microsoft
                    VSS framework.
                •   Enables fast recovery to support strict recovery time objectives (RTOs) for
                    databases and single items without requiring a slow item-level based backup.
                •   Significantly reduces backup windows and backup-storage footprints by using
                    Avamar client-side data deduplication to only store unique daily changes, while
                    always maintaining daily full backups for immediate single-step restore.
                •   Provides easy management by using one Avamar GUI for Avamar backups.
                •   Provides hardware load balancing that introduces redundancy to SharePoint
                    and improves SharePoint farm performance.




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Introduction
Purpose        This white paper documents the testing and validation of backup, deduplication, and
               restore processes for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010
               using Avamar and EMC VNX5500™ in a virtualized server environment, enabled by
               VMware® vSphere™ 5.0.

               This solution shows the new multi-streaming support of the Avamar agents to enable
               higher throughput of backups. For Microsoft Exchange, VSS copies of passive
               availability group (PAG) databases were used to offload backup from active
               databases. For Microsoft SharePoint, VSS copies of the SharePoint farm databases
               were used.

Scope          This use case shows the performance of backups and restores to the Avamar grid.
               Testing of this scenario provides best practices.

               The solution was also tested for backup and recovery, and deduplication
               performance aspects, with a focus on backup and recovery throughput and timing to
               showcase the ability to meet RPO and RTO requirements.

Audience       This white paper is intended for EMC employees, partners, and customers with an
               interest in backup and recovery for Microsoft environments. Readers should already
               be familiar with Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SharePoint technologies and EMC
               backup and recovery services.




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Technology overview
Introduction   This chapter provides an overview of the primary technologies used in this solution:
                 •   EMC Avamar
                 •   EMC VNX5500
                 •   VMware vCenter Server™
                 •   VMware vSphere
                 •   Kroll Ontrack PowerControls

EMC Avamar     EMC Avamar enables fast, efficient backup and recovery by reducing the size of
               backup data at the client—before it is transferred across the network and stored.
               Avamar’s data deduplication dramatically reduces network traffic by only sending
               unique blocks over the LAN/WAN. Blocks that were previously stored are never
               backed up again. This means huge savings in bandwidth for backup, a lot less disk
               storage needed on the back end, and very fast backups—often as much as ten times
               faster.

               Avamar backups can be quickly recovered in just one step—eliminating the hassle of
               restoring full and subsequent incremental backups to reach the desired recovery
               point. The backup data is encrypted during transit across the network and at rest for
               added security.

               Application plug-ins
               For tight integration with your Microsoft applications, EMC offers the following
               Avamar application plug-ins:
                 •   EMC Avamar plug-in for Exchange VSS—Delivers backup and recovery with data
                     deduplication for Microsoft Exchange Server. Supports granular recovery of
                     individual mailboxes, folders, or messages.
                 •   EMC Avamar plug-in for SharePoint VSS—Provides backup and recovery with
                     data deduplication for Microsoft SharePoint. Achieves granular recovery for
                     SharePoint objects such as Web applications, sites, and calendars.

EMC VNX        The EMC VNX family delivers industry-leading innovation and enterprise capabilities
               for file, block, and object storage in a scalable, easy-to-use solution. This storage
               platform combines powerful and flexible hardware with an advanced efficiency,
               management, and protection software to meet the demanding needs of today's
               businesses.

               The VNX series is designed to meet the high-performance, high-scalability
               requirements of midsize and large businesses.

               The VNX array model used in this solution is VNX5500. While the VNX5500 is
               selected, this solution also applies to EMC VNX5300™, EMC VNX5700™ and EMC
               VNX7500™ models.




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VMware vCenter   You can simplify your IT management with VMware vCenter virtualization and cloud
                 management solutions. vCenter solutions help you accelerate IT service delivery,
                 transform operational efficiency, automatically assure compliance, and reduce
                 business risks.

                 VMware vCenter Server
                 By using VMware vCenter Server, key elements like hosts, clusters, resource pools,
                 datastores, networks, and virtual machines can be viewed, configured, and managed.
                 vCenter Server aggregates physical resources from multiple ESX/ESXi hosts and
                 presents a central collection of simple and flexible resources for you to provision to
                 virtual machines in the virtual environment.

                 vCenter Server has the following characteristics:
                   •   Centralized management
                   •   Operational automation
                   •   Secure access control
                   •   Availability and resource management
                   •   High levels of security
                   •   Automated energy efficiency

VMware vSphere   VMware vSphere uses the power of virtualization to transform datacenters into
                 simplified cloud computing infrastructures, and enables IT organizations to deliver
                 flexible and reliable IT services. vSphere virtualizes and aggregates the underlying
                 physical hardware resources across multiple systems and provides pools of virtual
                 resources to the datacenter.

                 As a cloud operating system, vSphere manages large collections of infrastructure
                 (such as CPUs, storage, and networking) as a seamless and dynamic operating
                 environment, and also manages the complexity of a datacenter.

Kroll Ontrack    Kroll Ontrack PowerControls software enables you to quickly and easily find, recover,
PowerControls    and restore granular SharePoint content, such as documents, lists, libraries, and
                 folders, or entire SharePoint sites, from full Avamar backups.




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Configuration
Introduction    This solution shows how a customer can back up and restore applications, Microsoft
                Exchange Server 2010, and Microsoft SharePoint 2010, using EMC Avamar
                application plug-ins for Exchange and SharePoint.

                Performance results are shown for the Avamar grid as backup targets.

                The solution is configured as follows:
                  •   All the virtual machines use VNX5500 for disk storage and management. The
                      virtual machines are split between the ESX servers.
                  •   EMC used converged networking such as Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) to
                      significantly reduce the connectivity complexity and port count for this solution,
                      from server to VNX storage connectivity. The platform, optimized for virtual
                      environments, is designed within open industry-standard technologies and
                      aims to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase business agility.
                      The system integrates a low-latency, lossless, 10-gigabit Ethernet (GbE) unified
                      network fabric with enterprise-class, x86-architecture servers.
                  •   Avamar is used for backup and restore, and Kroll Ontrack is used to perform
                      granular restores for SharePoint. The Avamar plug-in for Exchange VSS includes
                      a granular level recovery (GLR) feature that enables recovery of mailboxes,
                      folders, and mail messages.
                  •   A hardware load balancer is used between the client load and the web front-
                      ends (WFEs) for SharePoint load testing.

Physical        Figure 1 shows the overall physical architecture of the solution.
environment




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Figure 1.     Physical architecture


Hardware    The hardware used to validate the solution is listed in Table 1.
resources   Table 1.      Hardware

              Equipment          Used for                Quantity   Configuration
              ESX Servers        VMware, Exchange,       2          • 256 GB of RAM
                                 SharePoint
                                                                    • 32-core
                                                                    • 146 GB RAID 5 internal hard
                                                                      disk drives (HDD)

              Management         VMware vCenter server   1          • 16 GB of RAM
              servers
                                                                    • Dual-core

              EMC VNX5500        VMWare virtual          1          • Exchange – NL-SAS
                                 machines, Exchange
                                                                    • SharePoint – SAS
                                 databases and logs,
                                 SharePoint content
                                 databases and logs




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Equipment         Used for                Quantity   Configuration
                       EMC Avamar        Backup of SharePoint    1          • Gen 4, 6-node
                                         and Exchange
                                                                            • OS version 6.0 SP1
                                         databases


Software resources The software used to validate the solution is listed in Table 2.
                     Table 2.      Software

                       Software                                       Version
                       Microsoft Windows Server                       2008 R2 Enterprise Edition

                       Microsoft Exchange Server                      2010 SP1 Enterprise Edition

                       Microsoft SharePoint Server                    2010 Enterprise Edition

                       Microsoft SQL Server                           2008 R2 Enterprise Edition

                       EMC Avamar Windows Client                      6.0 SP1

                       EMC Avamar Windows Exchange VSS Plug-in        6.0 SP1

                       EMC Avamar Windows Exchange GLR Plug-in        6.0 SP1

                       EMC Avamar Windows SharePoint VSS Plug-in      6.0 SP1

                       Kroll Ontrack PowerControls                    6.1

                       VMware vSphere                                 4.1




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Disk layout   Figure 2 shows the disk layout for the solution.




              Figure 2.   VNX disk layout

              As Figure 2 shows, the first enclosure 0_0 was not used. Two 8+8 RAID 1/0 storage
              pools were used for the Exchange databases. The Exchange logs were on two 1+1
              RAID 1/0 storage pools.

              The boot LUNs for all the virtual machines were on a five-disk 4+1 RAID 5 storage
              pool.

              The SharePoint ContentDB data and log LUNs were on an nine-disk 8+1 storage pool,
              while the TempDB and SearchDB LUNs were on a 2+2 RAID 1/0 storage pool.




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Networking   Figure 3 shows the network layout of the solution.




             Figure 3.   Network layout

             At the time of this solution testing, Avamar supported 1 Gb network interfaces.
             Figure 3 shows how EMC used a 1/10 Gb switch to connect Avamar to the 10 Gb FCoE
             network. Since each Avamar node had a 1 Gb connection to the network, multi-
             streaming allowed Avamar to use several nodes at once; therefore, multiple 1 Gb
             network connections at once. The network was not a bottleneck in any of EMC’s tests.

             EMC attached the VNX5500 and ESX servers to the 10 Gb FCoE network.

             Client load was generated from the 1 Gb network in the same way it would in a normal
             production environment. The client load used a public network to connect to the
             virtual machines on the ESX servers.

             The Avamar nodes used a separate backup network to do backups and restores.




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Environment   This solution was validated with the environment profile listed in Table 3.
profile
              Table 3.       Environment profiles

                Application     Requirements                               Quantity/Type/Size
                Exchange        Exchange mailbox count total               5,000
                Server 2010     (2,500 per active server)

                                Exchange mailbox size                      1.5 GB

                                Exchange User profile                      150 messages sent/received
                                                                           per day (0.15 IOPS per user)

                                Exchange—Availability                      DAG

                                Disk type and RAID configuration           2 TB NL-SAS–7.2k RAID 1/0

                SharePoint      SharePoint—Total user count                6,000
                Server          SharePoint—Total data                      2.5 TB

                                SharePoint—Max content DB size             200 GB

                                SharePoint—Number of ContentDBs            14

                                SharePoint—Document size range             200 k to 2 MB

                                SharePoint—Total site collection count     14

                                SharePoint—Size per site                   About 10 GB

                                SharePoint—Sites per site collection       3–10

                                SharePoint—Total site count                200

                                SharePoint—Usage profile(s) (%browse/%     80%/10%/10%
                                search/%modify)

                                SharePoint—User concurrency                10%

                                Disk type                                  600 GB SAS–10k RAID 5




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Deployment
Introduction     This chapter describes the deployment of the hardware and software used in this
                 solution:
                   •   VNX5500
                   •   VMware vCenter Server
                   •   Avamar
                   •   Load balancer
                   •   Kroll Ontrack PowerControls

VNX5500          VNX5500 was configured with eight 100 GB Flash drives, fifty-seven 600 GB SAS
                 drives, and forty-five 2 TB NL-SAS drives. The drives were split between two buses.
                 The Flash drives were not used for this use case. Two front-end ports per storage
                 processor (SP) were connected to the FCoE network.

VMware vCenter   vCenter Server was installed on a management server and used to manage the ESX
Server           servers, and provision and manage virtual machines for Exchange and SharePoint.

                 For high availability of the virtual machines across the ESX servers, VMware high
                 availability (HA) with vMotion was configured and enabled in vCenter Server.

VMware vSphere   vSphere was used as a platform to which virtual machines for Exchange and
                 SharePoint were provisioned.

Avamar           Avamar was deployed with one utility node and five storage nodes. Each Avamar
                 node had dual internal network connections and an external network connection. The
                 external network connections were split between two network switches. This layout
                 has an additional external switch, which is the only difference to the layout shown in
                 Figure 4.




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Figure 4.   Avamar deployment


Load balancer   A hardware load balancer was used for the load balancing testing. This was
                configured to accept requests for the WFEs and then to split the requests equally
                between them.

Kroll Ontrack   Kroll Ontrack PowerControls was installed on the Avamar front-end server (lightly
PowerControls   utilized SharePoint application server) to do SharePoint granular restores. Kroll
                Ontrack PowerControls is able to extract items from the raw database files. This saves
                time as well as the extra space required by doing a full restore of the database to
                another SQL Server and then extracting the items.




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Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Introduction   In this solution, the Exchange organization consists of two mailbox servers and two
               client access and hub transport servers. High availability is provided through the use
               of the database availability group (DAG). Within a DAG, a set of mailbox servers
               performs continuous database replication through the use of host-based log
               shipping, to provide automatic database recovery in the event of failures. In this
               solution, each database is deployed with two DAG copies on two Exchange Server
               2010 mailbox servers.

Design         Due to the many variables and diversities between different organizations, sizing and
               configuring storage for use with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 can be a
               complicated process. One of the methods used to simplify the sizing and
               configuration of storage for use with Exchange Server 2010 is to define a unit of
               measure—a building block.

               A building block represents the amount of disk and server resources required to
               support a specific number of Exchange Server 2010 users. The amount of required
               resources is derived from the:
                 •   Specific user profile type
                 •   Mailbox size
                 •   Disk requirements

               Using the building block approach helps to remove much of the guesswork required
               to simplify the implementation of the Exchange Server 2010 mailbox server. After the
               initial building block is designed, it can easily be reproduced and scaled to support
               the required number of total users in the organization.

               Your Exchange administrators can now create building blocks that are based on your
               company’s specific requirements for the Exchange environment. This approach is very
               helpful when you expect future growth, because it makes scalability of the Exchange
               environment much easier and more straightforward.

               EMC’s best practices involving the building-block approach for Exchange Server
               design have proven to be very successful throughout many customer
               implementations.

               For more information about the building block calculation, refer to Microsoft
               Exchange Server 2010 Performance Review Using the EMC VNX5300 Unified Storage
               Platform—An Architectural Overview.
               Table 4 and Table 5 show the user profile and building block used in this solution.
               Table 4.     User profile

                 User profile characteristic            Value
                 Number of users supported              5,000 users

                 User profile supported                 150 messages sent/received per day (0.15
                                                        IOPS per user)




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User profile characteristic                   Value
                       Read/write ratio                              3:2

                       Number of mailbox servers                     2

                       Number of DAG copies                          2

                       Mailbox size                                  1.5 GB

                     Table 5.     Building block

                       Building block                                Value
                       User count per server                         5,000 (2,500 active users, 2,500 passive
                                                                     users)

                       Number of databases per server                10 (5 active, 5 passive)

                       User count per database                       500

                       Database LUN size                             1.4 TB

                       RAID type and disks required (database        RAID 1/0 (16 x 2 TB NL-SAS drives) in a
                       LUN)                                          storage pool

                       Log LUN size                                  72 GB

                       RAID type and disks required (log LUN)        RAID 1/0 (2 x 2 TB NL-SAS drives)


Configuration        In this solution, the first client access server also acts as the file share witness. To
                     remove a single point of failure, the virtual machines of the two mailbox servers and
                     the two client access and hub transport servers are hosted on different ESX hosts.

                     The virtual machine and LUN configurations are shown in Table 6 and Table 7.
                     Table 6.     Virtual machine configurations

                       Virtual machine                      Quantity             CPU               RAM (GB)
                       Mailbox server                       2                    6                 36

                       Hub/client access servers            2                    4                 16
                       combination

                     Table 7.     LUN configurations

                                                                LUN size                                 File system
                Virtual machine   Role               Quantity                 Storage pools
                                                                (GB)                                     type
                Mailbox server    Boot               1          100           SAS 600 GB RAID 5 4+1      VMFS
                                                                              (shared pool)

                                  Mount point        1          10            SAS 600 GB RAID 5 4+1      RDM
                                                                              (shared pool)

                                  Database           10         1,400         2 TB NL-SAS RAID 1/0       RDM

                                  Log                10         72            2 TB NL-SAS RAID 1/0       RDM




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LUN size                                File system
             Virtual machine   Role           Quantity                Storage pools
                                                          (GB)                                    type
             Hub/client        Boot           1           100         SAS 600 GB RAID 5 4+1       VMFS
             access servers
             combination



Jetstress         You should validate Exchange 2010 storage design for expected transactional I/O per
validation        second (IOPS) before it is placed in a production environment. To ensure that the
                  environment functions appropriately, EMC recommends that the Microsoft Jetstress
                  tool is used to validate the Exchange storage design.

                  The Jetstress tool simulates Exchange I/O at the database level by interacting directly
                  with the Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) database technology (also known as Jet) on
                  which Exchange is built.

                  You can configure Jetstress to test the maximum I/O throughput available to the disk
                  subsystem within the required performance constraints of Exchange. Jetstress can
                  accept a simulated profile of specific user counts and IOPS per user to validate that
                  the disk subsystem is capable of maintaining an acceptable performance level by the
                  metrics defined in that profile.

                  The 64-bit version of Jetstress 2010 can be downloaded from the Microsoft
                  Download Center.

                  In this solution, EMC used Jetstress version 14.01.0225.017 to simulate an I/O
                  profile of 0.15 IOPS per user. EMC validated the building blocks using a two-hour
                  performance test.

                  Table 8 and Table 9 show the average I/O and the average latency on the mailbox
                  server. The performance meets the design target.

                  Table 8.     I/O and latency for mailbox server (database)

                    Database I/O                         Target values                    Achieved values
                    Achieved transactional IOPS (I/O     750 (5,000 x 0.15)               755.6
                    database reads/sec + I/O
                    database writes/sec)

                    I/O database reads/sec               N/A                              459.8

                    I/O database writes/sec              N/A                              295.8

                    I/O database reads average           Less than 20 ms                  17.9
                    latency (ms)

                    I/O database writes average          This counter is not a good       2.3
                    latency (ms)                         indicator for client latency
                                                         because database writes are
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Table 9.      I/O and latency for mailbox server (transaction log)

  Transaction log I/O                   Target values                Achieved values
  I/O log writes/sec                    N/A                          251.9

  I/O log writes average latency (ms)   Less than 10 ms              0.9

  Total I/O                             Target values                Achieved values

  (DB+Logs+BDM+Replication)/sec         N/A                          1168.7




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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
Introduction       In this solution, the SharePoint farm consists of a Microsoft SQL Database Server, an
                   application server for central administration, two WFEs, and one crawl/query server.

Design             The SharePoint farm is designed to support a specific number of users at a certain
                   concurrency. It is designed with SharePoint best practices in mind, the only change
                   being the use of SAS storage pools for all SharePoint components. EMC used storage
                   pools instead of RAID groups for all LUNs.

                   The design is based on the best practices provided in EMC Virtual Infrastructure for
                   Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enabled by EMC CLARiiON and VMware vSphere 4—
                   A Detailed Review.

Test methodology   EMC used Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) to simulate the load on the
                   SharePoint farm. A client load emulation tool was used to ensure that the SharePoint
                   farm was operating at the optimal performance level.

                   All users adhered to a Microsoft heavy-user profile, which specifies 60 requests per
                   hour. A think time of zero percent was applied to all tests. “Zero percent think time”
                   is the elimination of typical user decision-making time when browsing, searching, or
                   modifying data using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. Every user request is
                   completed from start to finish without a pause, which generates a continuous
                   workload on the system.

                   The maximum user capacity is derived from the following formula:
                   # = seconds per hour/RPH/Concurrency_percent*RPS

                   Example: 3,600/60/1 percent*12=72,000

                   Example: 3,600/60/10 percent*12=7,200 (supported user capacity for
                   10 percent concurrency)

                   The response times for each organization are detailed in Table 10.

                   Table 10.    Response times

                    Test type      Action               Percent Mix   Response time
                    Browse         User browse          80            Less than 3 seconds

                    Search         Unique value         10            Less than 3 seconds
                                   search

                    Modify         Browse and           10            Less than 3 seconds
                                   metadata modify


Configuration      The SharePoint farm consists of 14 site collections, with three to ten sites each, for a
                   total of 100 sites. Each site contains different numbers and sizes of documents for a
                   total of 2.5 TB of documents for all sites combined.




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The virtual machine and LUN configurations are shown in Table 11, Table 12, and
Table 13.

Table 11.      SharePoint virtual machine configuration

 Virtual machine          Quantity              CPUs                     RAM (GB)
 SQL Server               1                     8                        32

 WFE                      2                     4                        4

 Crawl/Query              1                     4                        8

 Application              1                     4                        4


Table 12.      SharePoint LUN configuration

 Virtual                                         VMFS disk      LUN
                  Role               Quantity                                 Storage pools
 machine                                         sizes          sizes
 SQL Server       Boot               1           50             1 TB          SAS 600 GB
                                                                (shared)      RAID 5 4+1

                  ContentDBs         14          100-250        1.5 TB        SAS 600 GB
                  CDB Logs           1           10-30          1.5 TB        RAID 5 8+1
                  SP Config          1           100            500 GB
                  SQL Internal       1           10

                  TempDB Data        1           100            1 TB          SAS 600 GB
                  TempDB Log         1           10                           RAID 1/0 2+2
                  SearchDB           1           350
                  SearchDB Log       1           35

 WFE              Boot               6           50             1 TB          SAS 600 GB
                                                                (shared)      RAID 5 4+1

 Crawl/Query      Boot               2           50             1 TB          SAS 600 GB
                  Index              2           100            (shared)      RAID 5 4+1

 Application      Boot               1           50             1 TB          SAS 600 GB
                                                                (shared)      RAID 5 4+1

Table 13.      Number of ContentDBs per LUN

 LUN                          Number of ContentDBs
 ContentDBs_1                 6

 ContentDBs_2                 5

 ContentDBs_3                 3




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Backup testing methodology
Backup              EMC ran a full initial backup before backup testing to Avamar. This simulates the
methodology         initial backup that customers would have to do when they first back up an
                    environment to Avamar. The backup times for these initial backups are not relevant to
                    EMC’s testing because they are not the day-to-day backup operations that would
                    happen in an organization.

                    When a backup to Avamar runs, the Avamar client separates the data into segments
                    and calculates a hash for each segment. These hashes are then checked against
                    existing hashes on the Avamar grid. If the hash already exists, then it is not backed
                    up. This is client-side deduplication.

Data change rates   During testing, EMC used a specific rate of data change against the Exchange and
explained           SharePoint databases, 3 percent for Exchange and 10 percent for SharePoint. These
                    parameters were accurately defined in the load tools used for the testing.

                    Application data change rate in Exchange or SharePoint is not that same as the data
                    change rate that is reported by Avamar. Avamar compares every segment of the
                    changed data file and only copies the changed segment of any data file and not the
                    whole data file. When a 2 MB file is modified in SharePoint, it does not mean the
                    whole file has changed; Avamar only backs up the changed segments.

                    In this solution, an Exchange data change rate of 3 percent equates to a 1.5 percent
                    data change rate for Avamar, and a SharePoint data change rate of 10 percent
                    equates to an 8 percent data change rate in Avamar.

Test types          Initial baseline performance
                    EMC’s initial test was a baseline performance test to establish a baseline for
                    comparison with subsequent backup tests. EMC wanted to compare the impact of
                    backups on application performance.

                    For more details on the baseline performance test, see Baseline application
                    performance testing.

                    No data change and no load backup
                    EMC then did a backup test where there was no data change and no load. This gave a
                    baseline backup result that EMC could compare to other backup tests. Even though
                    there is no data change, there are still time, CPU, IOPS, and processing costs related
                    to the segmenting and hashing functions.

                    Percentage data change with no load backup
                    The next test was a percentage data change with no load. For SharePoint this was
                    approximately 10 percent, and for Exchange this was approximately 3 percent. This
                    test simulated a customer environment where backups would take place daily during
                    a backup window with no user load.




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Same daily percentage data change with full user load backup
                The final backup test was the same daily percentage data change but with full user
                load. This test simulated backups run after a data change rate of 10 percent for
                SharePoint and 3 percent for Exchange. This scenario might apply to customers who
                have no downtime window for backups, for example, customers who need to operate
                24 hours a day but still want to do daily backups.

Backup          On-demand backups were used due to the test schedule, with a retention policy of No
configuration   end date. Encryption was set to "none" apart from the specific encryption test that
                was run.

                Exchange configuration
                In order to get optimized backup performance, Exchange backup was configured as
                follows:
                  •   Exchange 2010 was configured with a DAG, which contains two Exchange
                      servers with the mailbox role installed.
                  •   Exchange backups were performed on passive database copies from both
                      mailbox servers.
                  •   Each database was placed on two separate disks—one disk for the database
                      file and one disk for the transaction logs.
                  •   Each database was roughly the same size.
                  •   Six backup streams were specified in each backup job.

                Figure 5 shows the Avamar backup GUI with only passive database copies selected.




                Figure 5.   Selecting an Exchange Information Store for backup




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Figure 6 shows the Backup Options window with the default setting for backup set to
“Always” to backup all selected databases.




Figure 6.    Setting backup options for Exchange

Alternatively, you can select all databases and change Set when backup occurs on
clustered or DAG systems to “Replica (passive) writer only”. Selecting this option
means you do not have to determine which databases are passive and you do not
have to individually select them for backup; the passive databases are automatically
selected and backed up by the program.

The maximum of six backup streams were chosen to back up the targets in parallel.
Consistency checking was disabled when simulating daily backups because this was
a DAG configuration and Exchange 2010 has internal database integrity checking. As
a best practice, EMC recommends that you enable consistency checks on a weekly
basis.

Note    Improved internal database integrity checking in Exchange 2010 reduces the
        likelihood that any database corruption will be included in backup images.
        This reduces the need to take a database offline to perform consistency
        checking by using the CHKSGFILES API or the ESEUTIL application. For more
        details, refer to the Microsoft Library Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Backup and
        Restore SDK.




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SharePoint configuration
In order to get optimized backup performance, SharePoint backup was configured as
follows:
  •   EMC used the Multi-stream by database backup option with the maximum of
      six streams selected.
  •   The Windows SharePoint VSS plug-in provided VSS backup and recovery of
      SharePoint and discovered components.
  •   Database sizes ranged from 70 GB to 200 GB.
  •   Windows SharePoint GLR plug-in provided support for granular-level recovery of
      SharePoint items when used in conjunction with a supported third-party
      recovery tool.

Figure 7 shows the Avamar backup GUI where a SharePoint farm VSS backup is
selected. The tce-sp-app-01 server is the Avamar front-end server. When the farm is
selected, Avamar VSS automatically selects the SharePoint instance on the SQL
Server as well as the Search Service Application.




Figure 7.   Selecting a SharePoint farm for backup




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Figure 8 shows backup options where you can set the retention period as well as the
encryption method, if required.




Figure 8.   Setting backup options for SharePoint




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Figure 9 shows SharePoint VSS backup options where you can choose to select
multiple targets and set the maximum number of backup streams. You can also
choose how you want to group the backup components, either by database or by
volume. In this solution, we grouped by database.




Figure 9.   Windows SharePoint VSS-specific backup options




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Summary of test results
Introduction     These results show the comparative backup and restore times and deduplication
                 rates based on EMC’s tests.

                 For more detailed information on the testing and validation done for this solution, see
                 Appendix A: Detailed test results

Summary charts   Exchange backups
and tables for   As Figure 10 shows, an Exchange backup to Avamar is running at a rate of 174 MB/s
backups and      with data change and no load, and at a rate of 142 MB/s with data change and load.
restores         This speed is because of Avamar’s client-side deduplication as well at its multi-
                 streaming capabilities. For Exchange, EMC did not test for No data change and no
                 load backup.


                                      AV data change no load (174 MB/s)
                                      AV data change and load (142 MB/s)



                                                              06:40


                                       05:26




                 Figure 10.   Exchange backups 3.4 TB per server (hours)

                 Note    During all backup test scenarios, eight vCPUs and 48 GB RAM were allocated
                         on both Microsoft Exchange mailbox servers and the Microsoft SQL Server.
                         This is the minimum recommendation for Avamar multi-streaming.




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SharePoint backups
As Figure 11 shows, SharePoint backups to Avamar are running at a rate of 176 MB/s
with no data change and no load. The rate decrease for data change and no load to
140 MB/s because of the new data that has to be compared and backed up.

The rate decreases to 113 MB/s for data change with load because less CPU is
available from the SQL Server under load.

                      AV No data change no load (176 MB/s)

                      AV data change no load (140 MB/s)

                      AV data change and load (113 MB/s)


                                                      06:40


                                    05:22


                  04:15




Figure 11.   SharePoint backups 2.5 TB (hours)


Exchange restores
Figure 12 shows the Exchange database restores from Avamar. For GLR restore, the
limiting factor is the Exchange application programming interface (API) retrieving
individual mail items, rather than the network.




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06:00


                 04:48


                 03:36


   Hours         02:24


                 01:12


                 00:00
                                AV single DB restore            AV GLR single mailbox
                                 (679GB) 35 MB/s                  restore (832MB)
           Restore Times                 05:22                         01:05


Figure 12.       Exchange restore times (hours)


SharePoint restores
Figure 13 shows the SharePoint restores from Avamar. For SharePoint granular
restores, most of the restore time is taken up by Kroll Ontrack PowerControls reading
the ContentDB and log files necessary for the granular restore.

                 02:09
                 01:55
                 01:40
                 01:26
                 01:12
   Hours




                 00:57
                 00:43
                 00:28
                 00:14
                 00:00
                             AV DB           AV list      Kroll                      Kroll
                           restore (70      restore      restore    AV single       restore
                             GB) 38          (1520     time from   file restore   time from
                              MB/s           items)       AvFS                       AvFS
           Restore Times     00:31          02:02       02:00         00:10        00:08


Figure 13.       SharePoint restore times (hours)




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Deduplication measurements
               Figure 14 shows the deduplicated data size for Avamar backups in GB. This example
               is based on the SharePoint backups. For the first full backup, the data was
               deduplicated by 49.56 percent. For the No data change backup, deduplication was
               99.98 percent. For the Data change backup, deduplication was 92.07 percent. The
               Data change and load backup deduplication was 92.67 percent.

                                         Data size      Data size with deduplication


                     2464.18               2500.3               2520.45                2520.65




                             1242.87



                                                                        199.18                184.69
                                                     0.47

                     First Full backup    No data change      Data change backup       Data Change and
                                              backup                                         load

               Figure 14.     Avamar deduplication for backups (GB)


Detailed       Performance testing results
observations   EMC made the following observations during and after testing.

               Application workload
                 •    The Exchange environment supported 5,000 users at 150 messages per day
                 •    The SharePoint farm supported 6,000 users at 10 percent concurrency
                 •    Hardware load balancing improved SharePoint performance by 3 percent

               Backup
                 • No data change no load backup:
                           2.6 TB of SharePoint data to Avamar took 4 hours and 15 minutes
                 •    Data change no load backup (1.5 percent Exchange, 8 percent SharePoint data
                      change):
                           6.9 TB of Exchange data to Avamar took 5 hours and 26 minutes
                           2.6 TB of SharePoint data to Avamar took 5 hours and 22 minutes
                 •    Data change with load backup (2 percent Exchange, 10 percent SharePoint
                      data change):
                           6.9 TB of Exchange data to Avamar took 6 hours and 40 minutes
                           2.6 TB of SharePoint data to Avamar took 6 hours and 40 minutes



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Restores from Avamar
                    Exchange single database restore of 679 GB took 5 hours and 22 minutes
                    Exchange mailbox restore of 832 MB took 1 hour and 5 minutes
                    SharePoint database restore of 70 GB took 31 minutes
                    List restore of 1,520 SharePoint items took 2 hours and 2 minutes
                    Single file SharePoint restore took 10 minutes

           Deduplication rates
             •   Deduplication rate for first full backup to Avamar:
                    Exchange was 1.67:1
                    SharePoint was 1.98:1

             •   Deduplication rate for incremental backups to Avamar:
                    Exchange was 81:1 for a 3 percent data change rate
                    SharePoint was 12.61:1 for a 10 percent data change rate

Benefits   Based on the testing results, these are the main benefits of this solution.
           Reduce backup time through Avamar multi-streaming
           Backing up terabytes of data took a long time with a traditional, tape-based, backup
           solution. For example, when backing up 6.4 TB of data with LTO-5 (maximum 140
           MB/s), the most advanced tape technology requires 13 hours for conventional tape
           backup, not including backup application time and performance. However, it took
           about only 5.5 hours to back up the same amount of Microsoft Exchange data
           through 1 Gb Ethernet with Avamar multi-streaming, which means the backup time is
           reduced by up to 58 percent. Reduction of backup times compared to traditional
           backups is much faster because Avamar deduplicates and sends only unique
           changes, thus less data, combined with faster ingests.

           Reduce granular recovery time
           The EMC Avamar plug-in for the Exchange GLR plug-in provides the capability to
           mount an existing backup’s database from the Avamar grid, which makes that
           database available on a mount point. This eliminates the time required to restore the
           database to a recovery database. Once you mount the database, it can be browsed,
           and individual items can be extracted from the database for recovery. The SharePoint
           GLR plug-in also mounts the content database using a mount point and eliminates
           the need to restore it to a different location before extracting items.

           Reduced backup storage requirements
           Compared with the traditional 100-percent-backup storage capacity requirement on
           tape, only a relatively small amount of additional capacity is required with data
           deduplication on Avamar grid.

           In this solution, the first full backup to Avamar of 9.76 TB of data used 6.51 TB of disk
           space after client-side deduplication. For a subsequent backup of a 3.15 percent data
           change under load, 9.85 TB of data used 278.20 GB of disk space after client-side
           deduplication.



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Note    Your results may vary depending on how many duplicates are in your specific
                          environment.

Notes and         When EMC backed up to the Avamar grid, the CPU load on SharePoint SQL Server and
recommendations   Exchange mailbox servers were at 90 percent with the recommended eight cores.
                  Avamar was configured to the maximum of six cores. Microsoft does not recommend
                  such a high CPU usage, even though it did not affect performance.

                  Restore times for Avamar were acceptable for both Exchange and SharePoint,
                  however, Avamar backup times can be improved by adding more cores to the SQL
                  and Exchange mailbox servers. Avamar backups used almost all of the spare CPU of
                  the SQL and Exchange mailbox servers but application performance was not affected
                  by this.

                  With the advent of Avamar 6.0 and its multi-streaming backup capability, Avamar
                  backs up and restores everything from small to enterprise-level environments, as
                  proven in this solution.




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Conclusion
Summary      EMC Avamar extends the optimization capabilities of EMC backup and recovery
             solutions to accelerate performance, enhance replication control, and simplify
             administration. Your IT backup administrator can now manage organization-wide
             backup workloads associated with each dataset from a single management interface.

             The EMC Avamar application plug-ins for Exchange and SharePoint enable
             application-consistent backups. Avamar client-side deduplication saves backup
             space and minimizes the amount of data that needs to be backed up.

Findings     Table 14 to Table 16 summarize the objectives of this solution and the results
             achieved.
             Table 14.    Baseline performance

              Objective                                  Results
              Validate Exchange 2010 design and layout   Exchange 2010 performed at acceptable
              by showing acceptable performance levels   levels, and storage layout was within
                                                         parameters for performance.

              Validate SharePoint 2010 design and        SharePoint 2010 performed at acceptable
              layout by showing acceptable performance   levels, and storage layout was within
              levels                                     parameters for performance.

             Table 15.    Hardware load balancing

              Objective                                  Results
              Show SharePoint farm performance impact    Using a load balancer gives a slightly
              of a hardware load balancer                better performance (3%).

             Table 16.    Avamar backups

              Objective                                  Results
              Show backup times for SharePoint 2010      With the recommended eight cores, CPU
              and Exchange 2010 to Avamar                load on SharePoint SQL Server and
                                                         Exchange mailbox servers were at 90%.
                                                         Microsoft does not recommend such a
                                                         high CPU usage for SQL Server or
                                                         Exchange, although it did not affect
                                                         application performance in EMC’s tests.

              Show deduplication rates for backups to    • Initial deduplication rate of 1.67:1 for
              Avamar                                       Exchange data
                                                         • Initial deduplication rate of 1.98:1 for
                                                           SharePoint data
                                                         • Subsequent data change deduplication
                                                           rate of 85:1 for Exchange data
                                                         • Subsequent data change deduplication
                                                           rate of 12.61:1 for SharePoint data




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Objective                                  Results
 Show restore times from Avamar for         Restore times for Avamar were acceptable
 SharePoint 2010 and Exchange 2010          for both Exchange and SharePoint.

 Show how Avamar affects SharePoint and     Avamar backups used almost all of the
 Exchange                                   spare CPU of the SQL Server and Exchange
                                            mailbox servers, but application
                                            performance was not affected by this.

 Show in which environments Avamar is       With the advent of Avamar 6.0 and its new
 best suited                                multi-streaming backup capability,
                                            Avamar backs up and restores everything
                                            from small to enterprise-level
                                            environments, as proven in this solution.

For more information on the testing and validation done for this solution, see
Appendix A: Detailed test results




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References
White papers    For additional information, see the white papers listed below.
                  •   EMC Virtual Infrastructure for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
                  •   Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Performance Review Using the EMC VNX5300
                      Unified Storage Platform—An Architectural Overview

Product         For additional information, see the product documents listed below.
documentation
                  •   Avamar 6 Portfolio
                  •   Avamar Data Store Gen4 Multi-Node System Installation Guide
                  •   Avamar 6.0 for Exchange VSS Guide




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Appendix A: Detailed test results
              Testing scenarios for this solution include:
                •   Baseline application performance testing
                •   Avamar: Backup testing with no data change and no load
                •   Combined Avamar backup testing: With data change and without load
                •   Combined Avamar backup testing: With data change and load
                •   Avamar test results with encryption
                •   Restore testing: Avamar Exchange native GLR restore
                •   Restore testing: Avamar Exchange database recovery
                •   Restore testing: Avamar SharePoint VSS restore of site collection database
                •   Avamar restore testing: Kroll recovery of a site and single item in SharePoint
                •   Hardware load balancing




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Baseline      Introduction
application   EMC ran this test to establish baseline performance and to validate the design and
performance   configuration of Exchange and SharePoint.
testing
              Baseline test
              The objective of this test is to show the baseline performance when both Exchange
              applications and SharePoint applications are running at the same time in the
              environment. The load profiles are explained in each of the application sections that
              follow:

                •   Microsoft Exchange 2010 Server
                •   Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Server

              EMC ran all the tests for a minimum of eight hours concurrently to simulate a normal
              working day.

              Notes Benchmark results are highly dependent upon workload, specific application
                    requirements, and system design and implementation. Relative system
                    performance will vary as a result of these and other factors. Therefore, you
                    should not use this workload as a substitute for a specific customer
                    application benchmark when you are considering critical capacity planning
                    and/or product evaluation decisions.

                     All performance data contained in this report was obtained in a rigorously
                     controlled environment. Results obtained in other operating environments
                     may vary significantly.

                     EMC Corporation does not warrant or represent that a user can or will achieve
                     similar performance expressed in transactions per second.

              Exchange 2010 Server
              Performance
              After EMC completed the storage validation with Jetstress and determined that the
              storage was sized correctly and performed as expected, the next step in the
              validation process was to use the Microsoft Exchange Server Load Generator
              (LoadGen) tool to simulate a MAPI workload against the entire Exchange
              infrastructure. LoadGen testing is necessary to determine how each Exchange
              component performs under close-to-production user load.

              LoadGen requires full deployment of the Exchange environment for validation testing.
              You must perform all LoadGen validation testing in an isolated lab environment
              where there is no connectivity to production data.

              LoadGen:
                •   Generates users and workloads against the entire Exchange environment,
                    including network and storage components
                •   Simulates the entire email flow and locates any bottlenecks in the solution
                •   Assists in determining the CPU and memory resources that are required to
                    sustain the load for which the Exchange environment is designed


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The 64-bit version of LoadGen 2010 can be downloaded from the Microsoft Download
Center.

Test results
In this solution, LoadGen 2010 was used to simulate Outlook 2007 online mode
mailboxes with the following characteristics:
  •     The action profile was 150 messages per mailbox per day
  •     Each mailbox was 1.16 GB in size

Note      The building block design in this solution can support a mailbox size up to
         1.5 GB. Due to the long time required for mailbox initialization, the mailbox
         size configured in LoadGen was 1 GB. The actual mailbox size populated by
         LoadGen was around 1.16 GB.

EMC determined the validity of each test run by comparing the results of selected
performance counters to Microsoft-specified criteria. Performance counter data was
collected at one-minute intervals for the duration of each test run. The results of the
first and last hours were discarded. Results were averaged over the remainder of the
test.

For additional information about monitoring Exchange 2010 performance and other
key performance counters, see Microsoft Exchange Server Library topic Performance
and Scalability Counters and Thresholds.
Table 17 shows the LoadGen tests used to measure the performance of the Exchange
infrastructure of this solution.

Table 17.      LoadGen tests

 Test       Description
 1          Normal operation: 8 hours, 100 percent concurrency test under normal
            operating conditions with 150 messages MAPI profile. The objective was to
            validate the entire Exchange environment under normal operating conditions.

 2          Mailbox server failure: 8 hours, 100 percent concurrency test during the failure
            of one mailbox server and one client access server. All databases become
            active on the other mailbox server. All client RPC requests are processed by
            one client access server. The objective was to validate the environment's
            performance when one mailbox server and one client access server were lost.

As shown in Table 18, the performance achieved by the Exchange virtual machines
meets the target metrics in all test scenarios. In the second test scenario, the
processor utilization on the remaining servers is increased due to the loss of one
mailbox server and one client access server.




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Table 18.    Performance of virtual machines

                                                                                             Failover
                                                                          Normal situation
                                                                                             situation
Server            Performance counter                 Target              (2,500 users per
                                                                                             (5,000 users on
                                                                          server)
                                                                                             single server)

Mailbox server    ProcessorPercent processor time    Less than 80%       38%                59%

                  MSExchange databaseI/O             Less than 20 ms     10                 11
                  database reads (attached)
                  average latency

                  MSExchange databaseI/O             Less than 20 ms     1                  2
                  database writes (attached)
                  average latency                     Less than reads
                                                      avg.

                  MSExchange databaseI/O             Less than 200       21                 0
                  database reads (recovery) average   ms
                  latency

                  MSExchange databaseI/O             Less than 200       2                  0
                  database writes (recovery)          ms
                  average latency

                  MSExchange databaseI/O log         Less than 20 ms     3                  0
                  read average latency

                  MSExchange databaseI/O log         Less than 20 ms     3                  1
                  writes average latency

                  MSExchange                          Less than 2         1                  0
                  Replication(*)ReplayQueueLengt
                  h

                  MSExchangeISRPC requests           Less than 70        2                  5

                  MSExchangeISRPC averaged           Less than 10ms      3                  4
                  latency

CAS/HUB           ProcessorPercent processor time    Less than 80%       30%                60%
servers combo
                  MSExchange                          Less than 40        2                  6
                  RpcClientAccessRPC Requests

                  MSExchange                          Less than 250       9                  13
                  RpcClientAccessRPC Averaged        ms
                  Latency

                  MSExchangeTransport                 Less than 3,000     1                  7
                  Queues(_total)Aggregate
                  Delivery Queue Length (All
                  Queues)

                  MSExchangeTransport                 Less than 250       0                  0
                  Queues(_total)Active Remote
                  Delivery Queue Length




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Failover
                                                                                                                                                         Normal situation
                                                                                                                                                                              situation
Server    Performance counter                                                                     Target                                                 (2,500 users per
                                                                                                                                                                              (5,000 users on
                                                                                                                                                         server)
                                                                                                                                                                              single server)

          MSExchangeTransport                                                                     Less than 250                                          1                    7
          Queues(_total)Active Mailbox
          Delivery Queue Length

         Figure 15 shows the throughput on Exchange active database LUNs. LoadGen
         simulated user actions were the main contributor to the activities on these LUNs. The
         average IOPS was 58.75, while the maximum was 126.66.

                   140


                   120


                   100                                                                                                                                                  Exchange MB1 DB_1
                                                                                                                                                                        Exchange MB1 DB_3
                                                                                                                                                                        Exchange MB1 DB_5
                    80
                                                                                                                                                                        Exchange MB1 DB_7
            IOPS




                                                                                                                                                                        Exchange MB1 DB_9
                    60
                                                                                                                                                                        Exchange MB2 DB_2
                                                                                                                                                                        Exchange MB2 DB_4
                    40
                                                                                                                                                                        Exchange MB2 DB_6
                                                                                                                                                                        Exchange MB2 DB_8
                    20                                                                                                                                                  Exchange MB2 DB_10


                     0
                         03:01:16
                                    03:11:16
                                               03:21:16
                                                          03:31:16
                                                                     03:41:16
                                                                                03:51:16
                                                                                           04:01:16
                                                                                                      04:11:16
                                                                                                                 04:21:16
                                                                                                                            04:31:16
                                                                                                                                       04:41:16
                                                                                                                                                  04:51:16
                                                                                                                                                             05:01:16




         Figure 15.          Exchange active database LUN throughput




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  • 1. White Paper EMC BACKUP AND RECOVERY FOR MICROSOFT EXCHANGE AND SHAREPOINT 2010 SERVERS EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter • Improved multi-streaming backups with Avamar • Backup space savings with deduplication EMC Solutions Group Abstract This white paper explains the testing and validation of the backup and recovery capabilities and benefits of EMC® Avamar™ in a virtualized Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environment on EMC VNX™. March 2012
  • 2. Copyright © 2012 EMC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. EMC believes the information in this publication is accurate as of its publication date. The information is subject to change without notice. The information in this publication is provided “as is.” EMC Corporation makes no representations or warranties of any kind with respect to the information in this publication, and specifically disclaims implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Use, copying, and distribution of any EMC software described in this publication requires an applicable software license. For the most up-to-date listing of EMC product names, see EMC Corporation Trademarks on EMC.com. VMware, ESX, ESXi, VMware vCenter, VMware vCenter Server, and VMware vSphere are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners. Part Number: H8936 EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 2 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 3. Table of contents Executive summary ............................................................................................................................. 6 Business case .................................................................................................................................. 6 Microsoft Exchange 2010 ............................................................................................................ 6 Microsoft SharePoint 2010 .......................................................................................................... 6 Solution overview ............................................................................................................................ 6 Key results ....................................................................................................................................... 7 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 8 Purpose ........................................................................................................................................... 8 Scope .............................................................................................................................................. 8 Audience.......................................................................................................................................... 8 Technology overview .......................................................................................................................... 9 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 9 EMC Avamar ..................................................................................................................................... 9 Application plug-ins .................................................................................................................... 9 EMC VNX .......................................................................................................................................... 9 VMware vCenter ............................................................................................................................. 10 VMware vCenter Server .............................................................................................................. 10 VMware vSphere ............................................................................................................................ 10 Kroll Ontrack PowerControls ........................................................................................................... 10 Configuration ................................................................................................................................... 11 Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 11 Physical environment ..................................................................................................................... 11 Hardware resources ....................................................................................................................... 12 Software resources ........................................................................................................................ 13 Disk layout ..................................................................................................................................... 14 Networking .................................................................................................................................... 15 Environment profile........................................................................................................................ 16 Deployment ...................................................................................................................................... 17 Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 17 VNX5500 ....................................................................................................................................... 17 VMware vCenter Server .................................................................................................................. 17 VMware vSphere ............................................................................................................................ 17 Avamar .......................................................................................................................................... 17 Load balancer ................................................................................................................................ 18 Kroll Ontrack PowerControls ........................................................................................................... 18 EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 3 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 4. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 ...................................................................................................... 19 Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 19 Design ........................................................................................................................................... 19 Configuration ................................................................................................................................. 20 Jetstress validation ........................................................................................................................ 21 Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 .................................................................................................... 23 Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 23 Design ........................................................................................................................................... 23 Test methodology .......................................................................................................................... 23 Configuration ................................................................................................................................. 23 Backup testing methodology ............................................................................................................ 25 Backup methodology ..................................................................................................................... 25 Data change rates explained .......................................................................................................... 25 Test types ...................................................................................................................................... 25 Initial baseline performance ...................................................................................................... 25 No data change and no load backup ......................................................................................... 25 Percentage data change with no load backup ............................................................................ 25 Same daily percentage data change with full user load backup ................................................. 26 Backup configuration ..................................................................................................................... 26 Exchange configuration ............................................................................................................. 26 SharePoint configuration ........................................................................................................... 28 Summary of test results .................................................................................................................... 31 Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 31 Summary charts and tables for backups and restores .................................................................... 31 Exchange backups .................................................................................................................... 31 SharePoint backups .................................................................................................................. 32 Exchange restores ..................................................................................................................... 32 SharePoint restores ................................................................................................................... 33 Deduplication measurements.................................................................................................... 34 Detailed observations .................................................................................................................... 34 Performance testing results ....................................................................................................... 34 Benefits ......................................................................................................................................... 35 Notes and recommendations ......................................................................................................... 36 Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................... 37 Summary ....................................................................................................................................... 37 Findings ......................................................................................................................................... 37 EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 4 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 5. References ....................................................................................................................................... 39 White papers ................................................................................................................................. 39 Product documentation.................................................................................................................. 39 Appendix A: Detailed test results ...................................................................................................... 40 Baseline application performance testing ...................................................................................... 41 Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 41 Exchange 2010 Server ............................................................................................................... 41 SharePoint 2010 Server............................................................................................................. 46 Avamar: Backup testing with no data change and no load.............................................................. 49 Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 49 SharePoint 2010 Server: Test results ......................................................................................... 49 Combined Avamar backup testing: With data change and without load ......................................... 51 Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 51 Exchange 2010 Server: Test results ........................................................................................... 51 SharePoint 2010 Server: Test results ......................................................................................... 52 Combined Avamar backup testing: With data change and load ...................................................... 54 Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 54 Exchange 2010 Server: Test results ........................................................................................... 54 SharePoint 2010 Server: Test results ......................................................................................... 58 Avamar test results with encryption ............................................................................................... 62 Exchange................................................................................................................................... 62 SharePoint ................................................................................................................................ 62 Avamar performance with encryption ........................................................................................ 62 Restore testing: Avamar Exchange native GLR restore .................................................................... 63 Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 63 Exchange 2010 Server: Test results ........................................................................................... 63 Restore testing: Avamar/Exchange database recovery ................................................................... 64 Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 64 Exchange 2010 Server: Test results ........................................................................................... 64 Restore testing: Avamar/ SharePoint VSS restore of site collection database ................................. 65 Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 65 Test results ................................................................................................................................ 65 Avamar restore testing: Kroll recovery of a site and single item in SharePoint ................................. 66 Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 66 List restore ................................................................................................................................ 66 Single-item restore .................................................................................................................... 68 Hardware load balancing ............................................................................................................... 69 Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 69 Test results ................................................................................................................................ 70 EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 5 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 6. Executive summary Business case Data is one of the single most valuable assets a company can own. With the explosion in both the volume of data being retained and its speed of change, you are challenged to ensure constant access and protection against corruption or loss, either through hardware, environmental, or man-made disasters. The introduction of virtualization and the move to the cloud also further complicates this challenge. Downtime can represent failure to critical business processes, which can effectively halt business operations and lead to lost revenue, regulatory fines, and, potentially, lost customers. The loss of even some megabytes of data in recovery can amount to hundreds and thousands of transactions lost, which affects businesses in terms of financial revenue, operational effectiveness, and legal obligation. Microsoft often forms the foundation for today's most demanding, enterprise-level, transaction-based companies. Microsoft SharePoint Server and Exchange may be core platforms within the mission-critical framework for many businesses. Availability and recoverability become critical factors when designing the supporting IT infrastructure. Microsoft Exchange 2010 Customers are striving to provide users with larger mailboxes while reducing their businesses' Exchange backup data storage requirements and complexity. With current trends, Exchange users' mailbox sizes are growing rapidly, thus making it more challenging, if not impossible, to back up all of the Exchange data within the nightly backup windows. Microsoft SharePoint 2010 SharePoint collaboration is an integral part of many businesses. Designing and building a database infrastructure that supports this collaboration and protects the data is a major challenge. SharePoint is always on and accessed by users. At the same time, users store more and more data. In many cases, it is not acceptable to take the SharePoint application and its databases offline for nightly backups. If you require a restore, it must happen quickly with minimum impact to users. Solution overview This solution offers an efficient approach to protect Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010 on a physical or virtualized environment. This solution uses a virtualized environment. EMC® Avamar™ provides comprehensive backup and recovery for Microsoft environments by using Avamar 6.0 Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) agent. This solution tests and validates Avamar and provides recommendations and best practices for using Avamar to back up Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint based on the test results. Avamar multi-streaming is highlighted, which enables higher throughput of backups. EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 6 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 7. Key results Benefits of the solution for Exchange and SharePoint are: • Enables a rapid yet application-consistent backup and restore using Microsoft VSS framework. • Enables fast recovery to support strict recovery time objectives (RTOs) for databases and single items without requiring a slow item-level based backup. • Significantly reduces backup windows and backup-storage footprints by using Avamar client-side data deduplication to only store unique daily changes, while always maintaining daily full backups for immediate single-step restore. • Provides easy management by using one Avamar GUI for Avamar backups. • Provides hardware load balancing that introduces redundancy to SharePoint and improves SharePoint farm performance. EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 7 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 8. Introduction Purpose This white paper documents the testing and validation of backup, deduplication, and restore processes for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010 using Avamar and EMC VNX5500™ in a virtualized server environment, enabled by VMware® vSphere™ 5.0. This solution shows the new multi-streaming support of the Avamar agents to enable higher throughput of backups. For Microsoft Exchange, VSS copies of passive availability group (PAG) databases were used to offload backup from active databases. For Microsoft SharePoint, VSS copies of the SharePoint farm databases were used. Scope This use case shows the performance of backups and restores to the Avamar grid. Testing of this scenario provides best practices. The solution was also tested for backup and recovery, and deduplication performance aspects, with a focus on backup and recovery throughput and timing to showcase the ability to meet RPO and RTO requirements. Audience This white paper is intended for EMC employees, partners, and customers with an interest in backup and recovery for Microsoft environments. Readers should already be familiar with Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SharePoint technologies and EMC backup and recovery services. EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 8 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 9. Technology overview Introduction This chapter provides an overview of the primary technologies used in this solution: • EMC Avamar • EMC VNX5500 • VMware vCenter Server™ • VMware vSphere • Kroll Ontrack PowerControls EMC Avamar EMC Avamar enables fast, efficient backup and recovery by reducing the size of backup data at the client—before it is transferred across the network and stored. Avamar’s data deduplication dramatically reduces network traffic by only sending unique blocks over the LAN/WAN. Blocks that were previously stored are never backed up again. This means huge savings in bandwidth for backup, a lot less disk storage needed on the back end, and very fast backups—often as much as ten times faster. Avamar backups can be quickly recovered in just one step—eliminating the hassle of restoring full and subsequent incremental backups to reach the desired recovery point. The backup data is encrypted during transit across the network and at rest for added security. Application plug-ins For tight integration with your Microsoft applications, EMC offers the following Avamar application plug-ins: • EMC Avamar plug-in for Exchange VSS—Delivers backup and recovery with data deduplication for Microsoft Exchange Server. Supports granular recovery of individual mailboxes, folders, or messages. • EMC Avamar plug-in for SharePoint VSS—Provides backup and recovery with data deduplication for Microsoft SharePoint. Achieves granular recovery for SharePoint objects such as Web applications, sites, and calendars. EMC VNX The EMC VNX family delivers industry-leading innovation and enterprise capabilities for file, block, and object storage in a scalable, easy-to-use solution. This storage platform combines powerful and flexible hardware with an advanced efficiency, management, and protection software to meet the demanding needs of today's businesses. The VNX series is designed to meet the high-performance, high-scalability requirements of midsize and large businesses. The VNX array model used in this solution is VNX5500. While the VNX5500 is selected, this solution also applies to EMC VNX5300™, EMC VNX5700™ and EMC VNX7500™ models. EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 9 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 10. VMware vCenter You can simplify your IT management with VMware vCenter virtualization and cloud management solutions. vCenter solutions help you accelerate IT service delivery, transform operational efficiency, automatically assure compliance, and reduce business risks. VMware vCenter Server By using VMware vCenter Server, key elements like hosts, clusters, resource pools, datastores, networks, and virtual machines can be viewed, configured, and managed. vCenter Server aggregates physical resources from multiple ESX/ESXi hosts and presents a central collection of simple and flexible resources for you to provision to virtual machines in the virtual environment. vCenter Server has the following characteristics: • Centralized management • Operational automation • Secure access control • Availability and resource management • High levels of security • Automated energy efficiency VMware vSphere VMware vSphere uses the power of virtualization to transform datacenters into simplified cloud computing infrastructures, and enables IT organizations to deliver flexible and reliable IT services. vSphere virtualizes and aggregates the underlying physical hardware resources across multiple systems and provides pools of virtual resources to the datacenter. As a cloud operating system, vSphere manages large collections of infrastructure (such as CPUs, storage, and networking) as a seamless and dynamic operating environment, and also manages the complexity of a datacenter. Kroll Ontrack Kroll Ontrack PowerControls software enables you to quickly and easily find, recover, PowerControls and restore granular SharePoint content, such as documents, lists, libraries, and folders, or entire SharePoint sites, from full Avamar backups. EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 10 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 11. Configuration Introduction This solution shows how a customer can back up and restore applications, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and Microsoft SharePoint 2010, using EMC Avamar application plug-ins for Exchange and SharePoint. Performance results are shown for the Avamar grid as backup targets. The solution is configured as follows: • All the virtual machines use VNX5500 for disk storage and management. The virtual machines are split between the ESX servers. • EMC used converged networking such as Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) to significantly reduce the connectivity complexity and port count for this solution, from server to VNX storage connectivity. The platform, optimized for virtual environments, is designed within open industry-standard technologies and aims to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase business agility. The system integrates a low-latency, lossless, 10-gigabit Ethernet (GbE) unified network fabric with enterprise-class, x86-architecture servers. • Avamar is used for backup and restore, and Kroll Ontrack is used to perform granular restores for SharePoint. The Avamar plug-in for Exchange VSS includes a granular level recovery (GLR) feature that enables recovery of mailboxes, folders, and mail messages. • A hardware load balancer is used between the client load and the web front- ends (WFEs) for SharePoint load testing. Physical Figure 1 shows the overall physical architecture of the solution. environment EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 11 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 12. Figure 1. Physical architecture Hardware The hardware used to validate the solution is listed in Table 1. resources Table 1. Hardware Equipment Used for Quantity Configuration ESX Servers VMware, Exchange, 2 • 256 GB of RAM SharePoint • 32-core • 146 GB RAID 5 internal hard disk drives (HDD) Management VMware vCenter server 1 • 16 GB of RAM servers • Dual-core EMC VNX5500 VMWare virtual 1 • Exchange – NL-SAS machines, Exchange • SharePoint – SAS databases and logs, SharePoint content databases and logs EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 12 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 13. Equipment Used for Quantity Configuration EMC Avamar Backup of SharePoint 1 • Gen 4, 6-node and Exchange • OS version 6.0 SP1 databases Software resources The software used to validate the solution is listed in Table 2. Table 2. Software Software Version Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Enterprise Edition Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition EMC Avamar Windows Client 6.0 SP1 EMC Avamar Windows Exchange VSS Plug-in 6.0 SP1 EMC Avamar Windows Exchange GLR Plug-in 6.0 SP1 EMC Avamar Windows SharePoint VSS Plug-in 6.0 SP1 Kroll Ontrack PowerControls 6.1 VMware vSphere 4.1 EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 13 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 14. Disk layout Figure 2 shows the disk layout for the solution. Figure 2. VNX disk layout As Figure 2 shows, the first enclosure 0_0 was not used. Two 8+8 RAID 1/0 storage pools were used for the Exchange databases. The Exchange logs were on two 1+1 RAID 1/0 storage pools. The boot LUNs for all the virtual machines were on a five-disk 4+1 RAID 5 storage pool. The SharePoint ContentDB data and log LUNs were on an nine-disk 8+1 storage pool, while the TempDB and SearchDB LUNs were on a 2+2 RAID 1/0 storage pool. EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 14 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 15. Networking Figure 3 shows the network layout of the solution. Figure 3. Network layout At the time of this solution testing, Avamar supported 1 Gb network interfaces. Figure 3 shows how EMC used a 1/10 Gb switch to connect Avamar to the 10 Gb FCoE network. Since each Avamar node had a 1 Gb connection to the network, multi- streaming allowed Avamar to use several nodes at once; therefore, multiple 1 Gb network connections at once. The network was not a bottleneck in any of EMC’s tests. EMC attached the VNX5500 and ESX servers to the 10 Gb FCoE network. Client load was generated from the 1 Gb network in the same way it would in a normal production environment. The client load used a public network to connect to the virtual machines on the ESX servers. The Avamar nodes used a separate backup network to do backups and restores. EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 15 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 16. Environment This solution was validated with the environment profile listed in Table 3. profile Table 3. Environment profiles Application Requirements Quantity/Type/Size Exchange Exchange mailbox count total 5,000 Server 2010 (2,500 per active server) Exchange mailbox size 1.5 GB Exchange User profile 150 messages sent/received per day (0.15 IOPS per user) Exchange—Availability DAG Disk type and RAID configuration 2 TB NL-SAS–7.2k RAID 1/0 SharePoint SharePoint—Total user count 6,000 Server SharePoint—Total data 2.5 TB SharePoint—Max content DB size 200 GB SharePoint—Number of ContentDBs 14 SharePoint—Document size range 200 k to 2 MB SharePoint—Total site collection count 14 SharePoint—Size per site About 10 GB SharePoint—Sites per site collection 3–10 SharePoint—Total site count 200 SharePoint—Usage profile(s) (%browse/% 80%/10%/10% search/%modify) SharePoint—User concurrency 10% Disk type 600 GB SAS–10k RAID 5 EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 16 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 17. Deployment Introduction This chapter describes the deployment of the hardware and software used in this solution: • VNX5500 • VMware vCenter Server • Avamar • Load balancer • Kroll Ontrack PowerControls VNX5500 VNX5500 was configured with eight 100 GB Flash drives, fifty-seven 600 GB SAS drives, and forty-five 2 TB NL-SAS drives. The drives were split between two buses. The Flash drives were not used for this use case. Two front-end ports per storage processor (SP) were connected to the FCoE network. VMware vCenter vCenter Server was installed on a management server and used to manage the ESX Server servers, and provision and manage virtual machines for Exchange and SharePoint. For high availability of the virtual machines across the ESX servers, VMware high availability (HA) with vMotion was configured and enabled in vCenter Server. VMware vSphere vSphere was used as a platform to which virtual machines for Exchange and SharePoint were provisioned. Avamar Avamar was deployed with one utility node and five storage nodes. Each Avamar node had dual internal network connections and an external network connection. The external network connections were split between two network switches. This layout has an additional external switch, which is the only difference to the layout shown in Figure 4. EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 17 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 18. Figure 4. Avamar deployment Load balancer A hardware load balancer was used for the load balancing testing. This was configured to accept requests for the WFEs and then to split the requests equally between them. Kroll Ontrack Kroll Ontrack PowerControls was installed on the Avamar front-end server (lightly PowerControls utilized SharePoint application server) to do SharePoint granular restores. Kroll Ontrack PowerControls is able to extract items from the raw database files. This saves time as well as the extra space required by doing a full restore of the database to another SQL Server and then extracting the items. EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 18 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 19. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Introduction In this solution, the Exchange organization consists of two mailbox servers and two client access and hub transport servers. High availability is provided through the use of the database availability group (DAG). Within a DAG, a set of mailbox servers performs continuous database replication through the use of host-based log shipping, to provide automatic database recovery in the event of failures. In this solution, each database is deployed with two DAG copies on two Exchange Server 2010 mailbox servers. Design Due to the many variables and diversities between different organizations, sizing and configuring storage for use with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 can be a complicated process. One of the methods used to simplify the sizing and configuration of storage for use with Exchange Server 2010 is to define a unit of measure—a building block. A building block represents the amount of disk and server resources required to support a specific number of Exchange Server 2010 users. The amount of required resources is derived from the: • Specific user profile type • Mailbox size • Disk requirements Using the building block approach helps to remove much of the guesswork required to simplify the implementation of the Exchange Server 2010 mailbox server. After the initial building block is designed, it can easily be reproduced and scaled to support the required number of total users in the organization. Your Exchange administrators can now create building blocks that are based on your company’s specific requirements for the Exchange environment. This approach is very helpful when you expect future growth, because it makes scalability of the Exchange environment much easier and more straightforward. EMC’s best practices involving the building-block approach for Exchange Server design have proven to be very successful throughout many customer implementations. For more information about the building block calculation, refer to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Performance Review Using the EMC VNX5300 Unified Storage Platform—An Architectural Overview. Table 4 and Table 5 show the user profile and building block used in this solution. Table 4. User profile User profile characteristic Value Number of users supported 5,000 users User profile supported 150 messages sent/received per day (0.15 IOPS per user) EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 19 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 20. User profile characteristic Value Read/write ratio 3:2 Number of mailbox servers 2 Number of DAG copies 2 Mailbox size 1.5 GB Table 5. Building block Building block Value User count per server 5,000 (2,500 active users, 2,500 passive users) Number of databases per server 10 (5 active, 5 passive) User count per database 500 Database LUN size 1.4 TB RAID type and disks required (database RAID 1/0 (16 x 2 TB NL-SAS drives) in a LUN) storage pool Log LUN size 72 GB RAID type and disks required (log LUN) RAID 1/0 (2 x 2 TB NL-SAS drives) Configuration In this solution, the first client access server also acts as the file share witness. To remove a single point of failure, the virtual machines of the two mailbox servers and the two client access and hub transport servers are hosted on different ESX hosts. The virtual machine and LUN configurations are shown in Table 6 and Table 7. Table 6. Virtual machine configurations Virtual machine Quantity CPU RAM (GB) Mailbox server 2 6 36 Hub/client access servers 2 4 16 combination Table 7. LUN configurations LUN size File system Virtual machine Role Quantity Storage pools (GB) type Mailbox server Boot 1 100 SAS 600 GB RAID 5 4+1 VMFS (shared pool) Mount point 1 10 SAS 600 GB RAID 5 4+1 RDM (shared pool) Database 10 1,400 2 TB NL-SAS RAID 1/0 RDM Log 10 72 2 TB NL-SAS RAID 1/0 RDM EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 20 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 21. LUN size File system Virtual machine Role Quantity Storage pools (GB) type Hub/client Boot 1 100 SAS 600 GB RAID 5 4+1 VMFS access servers combination Jetstress You should validate Exchange 2010 storage design for expected transactional I/O per validation second (IOPS) before it is placed in a production environment. To ensure that the environment functions appropriately, EMC recommends that the Microsoft Jetstress tool is used to validate the Exchange storage design. The Jetstress tool simulates Exchange I/O at the database level by interacting directly with the Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) database technology (also known as Jet) on which Exchange is built. You can configure Jetstress to test the maximum I/O throughput available to the disk subsystem within the required performance constraints of Exchange. Jetstress can accept a simulated profile of specific user counts and IOPS per user to validate that the disk subsystem is capable of maintaining an acceptable performance level by the metrics defined in that profile. The 64-bit version of Jetstress 2010 can be downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center. In this solution, EMC used Jetstress version 14.01.0225.017 to simulate an I/O profile of 0.15 IOPS per user. EMC validated the building blocks using a two-hour performance test. Table 8 and Table 9 show the average I/O and the average latency on the mailbox server. The performance meets the design target. Table 8. I/O and latency for mailbox server (database) Database I/O Target values Achieved values Achieved transactional IOPS (I/O 750 (5,000 x 0.15) 755.6 database reads/sec + I/O database writes/sec) I/O database reads/sec N/A 459.8 I/O database writes/sec N/A 295.8 I/O database reads average Less than 20 ms 17.9 latency (ms) I/O database writes average This counter is not a good 2.3 latency (ms) indicator for client latency because database writes are asynchronous EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 21 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 22. Table 9. I/O and latency for mailbox server (transaction log) Transaction log I/O Target values Achieved values I/O log writes/sec N/A 251.9 I/O log writes average latency (ms) Less than 10 ms 0.9 Total I/O Target values Achieved values (DB+Logs+BDM+Replication)/sec N/A 1168.7 EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 22 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 23. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Introduction In this solution, the SharePoint farm consists of a Microsoft SQL Database Server, an application server for central administration, two WFEs, and one crawl/query server. Design The SharePoint farm is designed to support a specific number of users at a certain concurrency. It is designed with SharePoint best practices in mind, the only change being the use of SAS storage pools for all SharePoint components. EMC used storage pools instead of RAID groups for all LUNs. The design is based on the best practices provided in EMC Virtual Infrastructure for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enabled by EMC CLARiiON and VMware vSphere 4— A Detailed Review. Test methodology EMC used Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) to simulate the load on the SharePoint farm. A client load emulation tool was used to ensure that the SharePoint farm was operating at the optimal performance level. All users adhered to a Microsoft heavy-user profile, which specifies 60 requests per hour. A think time of zero percent was applied to all tests. “Zero percent think time” is the elimination of typical user decision-making time when browsing, searching, or modifying data using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. Every user request is completed from start to finish without a pause, which generates a continuous workload on the system. The maximum user capacity is derived from the following formula: # = seconds per hour/RPH/Concurrency_percent*RPS Example: 3,600/60/1 percent*12=72,000 Example: 3,600/60/10 percent*12=7,200 (supported user capacity for 10 percent concurrency) The response times for each organization are detailed in Table 10. Table 10. Response times Test type Action Percent Mix Response time Browse User browse 80 Less than 3 seconds Search Unique value 10 Less than 3 seconds search Modify Browse and 10 Less than 3 seconds metadata modify Configuration The SharePoint farm consists of 14 site collections, with three to ten sites each, for a total of 100 sites. Each site contains different numbers and sizes of documents for a total of 2.5 TB of documents for all sites combined. EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 23 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 24. The virtual machine and LUN configurations are shown in Table 11, Table 12, and Table 13. Table 11. SharePoint virtual machine configuration Virtual machine Quantity CPUs RAM (GB) SQL Server 1 8 32 WFE 2 4 4 Crawl/Query 1 4 8 Application 1 4 4 Table 12. SharePoint LUN configuration Virtual VMFS disk LUN Role Quantity Storage pools machine sizes sizes SQL Server Boot 1 50 1 TB SAS 600 GB (shared) RAID 5 4+1 ContentDBs 14 100-250 1.5 TB SAS 600 GB CDB Logs 1 10-30 1.5 TB RAID 5 8+1 SP Config 1 100 500 GB SQL Internal 1 10 TempDB Data 1 100 1 TB SAS 600 GB TempDB Log 1 10 RAID 1/0 2+2 SearchDB 1 350 SearchDB Log 1 35 WFE Boot 6 50 1 TB SAS 600 GB (shared) RAID 5 4+1 Crawl/Query Boot 2 50 1 TB SAS 600 GB Index 2 100 (shared) RAID 5 4+1 Application Boot 1 50 1 TB SAS 600 GB (shared) RAID 5 4+1 Table 13. Number of ContentDBs per LUN LUN Number of ContentDBs ContentDBs_1 6 ContentDBs_2 5 ContentDBs_3 3 EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 24 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 25. Backup testing methodology Backup EMC ran a full initial backup before backup testing to Avamar. This simulates the methodology initial backup that customers would have to do when they first back up an environment to Avamar. The backup times for these initial backups are not relevant to EMC’s testing because they are not the day-to-day backup operations that would happen in an organization. When a backup to Avamar runs, the Avamar client separates the data into segments and calculates a hash for each segment. These hashes are then checked against existing hashes on the Avamar grid. If the hash already exists, then it is not backed up. This is client-side deduplication. Data change rates During testing, EMC used a specific rate of data change against the Exchange and explained SharePoint databases, 3 percent for Exchange and 10 percent for SharePoint. These parameters were accurately defined in the load tools used for the testing. Application data change rate in Exchange or SharePoint is not that same as the data change rate that is reported by Avamar. Avamar compares every segment of the changed data file and only copies the changed segment of any data file and not the whole data file. When a 2 MB file is modified in SharePoint, it does not mean the whole file has changed; Avamar only backs up the changed segments. In this solution, an Exchange data change rate of 3 percent equates to a 1.5 percent data change rate for Avamar, and a SharePoint data change rate of 10 percent equates to an 8 percent data change rate in Avamar. Test types Initial baseline performance EMC’s initial test was a baseline performance test to establish a baseline for comparison with subsequent backup tests. EMC wanted to compare the impact of backups on application performance. For more details on the baseline performance test, see Baseline application performance testing. No data change and no load backup EMC then did a backup test where there was no data change and no load. This gave a baseline backup result that EMC could compare to other backup tests. Even though there is no data change, there are still time, CPU, IOPS, and processing costs related to the segmenting and hashing functions. Percentage data change with no load backup The next test was a percentage data change with no load. For SharePoint this was approximately 10 percent, and for Exchange this was approximately 3 percent. This test simulated a customer environment where backups would take place daily during a backup window with no user load. EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 25 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 26. Same daily percentage data change with full user load backup The final backup test was the same daily percentage data change but with full user load. This test simulated backups run after a data change rate of 10 percent for SharePoint and 3 percent for Exchange. This scenario might apply to customers who have no downtime window for backups, for example, customers who need to operate 24 hours a day but still want to do daily backups. Backup On-demand backups were used due to the test schedule, with a retention policy of No configuration end date. Encryption was set to "none" apart from the specific encryption test that was run. Exchange configuration In order to get optimized backup performance, Exchange backup was configured as follows: • Exchange 2010 was configured with a DAG, which contains two Exchange servers with the mailbox role installed. • Exchange backups were performed on passive database copies from both mailbox servers. • Each database was placed on two separate disks—one disk for the database file and one disk for the transaction logs. • Each database was roughly the same size. • Six backup streams were specified in each backup job. Figure 5 shows the Avamar backup GUI with only passive database copies selected. Figure 5. Selecting an Exchange Information Store for backup EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 26 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 27. Figure 6 shows the Backup Options window with the default setting for backup set to “Always” to backup all selected databases. Figure 6. Setting backup options for Exchange Alternatively, you can select all databases and change Set when backup occurs on clustered or DAG systems to “Replica (passive) writer only”. Selecting this option means you do not have to determine which databases are passive and you do not have to individually select them for backup; the passive databases are automatically selected and backed up by the program. The maximum of six backup streams were chosen to back up the targets in parallel. Consistency checking was disabled when simulating daily backups because this was a DAG configuration and Exchange 2010 has internal database integrity checking. As a best practice, EMC recommends that you enable consistency checks on a weekly basis. Note Improved internal database integrity checking in Exchange 2010 reduces the likelihood that any database corruption will be included in backup images. This reduces the need to take a database offline to perform consistency checking by using the CHKSGFILES API or the ESEUTIL application. For more details, refer to the Microsoft Library Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Backup and Restore SDK. EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 27 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 28. SharePoint configuration In order to get optimized backup performance, SharePoint backup was configured as follows: • EMC used the Multi-stream by database backup option with the maximum of six streams selected. • The Windows SharePoint VSS plug-in provided VSS backup and recovery of SharePoint and discovered components. • Database sizes ranged from 70 GB to 200 GB. • Windows SharePoint GLR plug-in provided support for granular-level recovery of SharePoint items when used in conjunction with a supported third-party recovery tool. Figure 7 shows the Avamar backup GUI where a SharePoint farm VSS backup is selected. The tce-sp-app-01 server is the Avamar front-end server. When the farm is selected, Avamar VSS automatically selects the SharePoint instance on the SQL Server as well as the Search Service Application. Figure 7. Selecting a SharePoint farm for backup EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 28 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 29. Figure 8 shows backup options where you can set the retention period as well as the encryption method, if required. Figure 8. Setting backup options for SharePoint EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 29 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 30. Figure 9 shows SharePoint VSS backup options where you can choose to select multiple targets and set the maximum number of backup streams. You can also choose how you want to group the backup components, either by database or by volume. In this solution, we grouped by database. Figure 9. Windows SharePoint VSS-specific backup options EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 30 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 31. Summary of test results Introduction These results show the comparative backup and restore times and deduplication rates based on EMC’s tests. For more detailed information on the testing and validation done for this solution, see Appendix A: Detailed test results Summary charts Exchange backups and tables for As Figure 10 shows, an Exchange backup to Avamar is running at a rate of 174 MB/s backups and with data change and no load, and at a rate of 142 MB/s with data change and load. restores This speed is because of Avamar’s client-side deduplication as well at its multi- streaming capabilities. For Exchange, EMC did not test for No data change and no load backup. AV data change no load (174 MB/s) AV data change and load (142 MB/s) 06:40 05:26 Figure 10. Exchange backups 3.4 TB per server (hours) Note During all backup test scenarios, eight vCPUs and 48 GB RAM were allocated on both Microsoft Exchange mailbox servers and the Microsoft SQL Server. This is the minimum recommendation for Avamar multi-streaming. EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 31 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 32. SharePoint backups As Figure 11 shows, SharePoint backups to Avamar are running at a rate of 176 MB/s with no data change and no load. The rate decrease for data change and no load to 140 MB/s because of the new data that has to be compared and backed up. The rate decreases to 113 MB/s for data change with load because less CPU is available from the SQL Server under load. AV No data change no load (176 MB/s) AV data change no load (140 MB/s) AV data change and load (113 MB/s) 06:40 05:22 04:15 Figure 11. SharePoint backups 2.5 TB (hours) Exchange restores Figure 12 shows the Exchange database restores from Avamar. For GLR restore, the limiting factor is the Exchange application programming interface (API) retrieving individual mail items, rather than the network. EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 32 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 33. 06:00 04:48 03:36 Hours 02:24 01:12 00:00 AV single DB restore AV GLR single mailbox (679GB) 35 MB/s restore (832MB) Restore Times 05:22 01:05 Figure 12. Exchange restore times (hours) SharePoint restores Figure 13 shows the SharePoint restores from Avamar. For SharePoint granular restores, most of the restore time is taken up by Kroll Ontrack PowerControls reading the ContentDB and log files necessary for the granular restore. 02:09 01:55 01:40 01:26 01:12 Hours 00:57 00:43 00:28 00:14 00:00 AV DB AV list Kroll Kroll restore (70 restore restore AV single restore GB) 38 (1520 time from file restore time from MB/s items) AvFS AvFS Restore Times 00:31 02:02 02:00 00:10 00:08 Figure 13. SharePoint restore times (hours) EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 33 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 34. Deduplication measurements Figure 14 shows the deduplicated data size for Avamar backups in GB. This example is based on the SharePoint backups. For the first full backup, the data was deduplicated by 49.56 percent. For the No data change backup, deduplication was 99.98 percent. For the Data change backup, deduplication was 92.07 percent. The Data change and load backup deduplication was 92.67 percent. Data size Data size with deduplication 2464.18 2500.3 2520.45 2520.65 1242.87 199.18 184.69 0.47 First Full backup No data change Data change backup Data Change and backup load Figure 14. Avamar deduplication for backups (GB) Detailed Performance testing results observations EMC made the following observations during and after testing. Application workload • The Exchange environment supported 5,000 users at 150 messages per day • The SharePoint farm supported 6,000 users at 10 percent concurrency • Hardware load balancing improved SharePoint performance by 3 percent Backup • No data change no load backup:  2.6 TB of SharePoint data to Avamar took 4 hours and 15 minutes • Data change no load backup (1.5 percent Exchange, 8 percent SharePoint data change):  6.9 TB of Exchange data to Avamar took 5 hours and 26 minutes  2.6 TB of SharePoint data to Avamar took 5 hours and 22 minutes • Data change with load backup (2 percent Exchange, 10 percent SharePoint data change):  6.9 TB of Exchange data to Avamar took 6 hours and 40 minutes  2.6 TB of SharePoint data to Avamar took 6 hours and 40 minutes EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 34 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 35. Restores from Avamar  Exchange single database restore of 679 GB took 5 hours and 22 minutes  Exchange mailbox restore of 832 MB took 1 hour and 5 minutes  SharePoint database restore of 70 GB took 31 minutes  List restore of 1,520 SharePoint items took 2 hours and 2 minutes  Single file SharePoint restore took 10 minutes Deduplication rates • Deduplication rate for first full backup to Avamar:  Exchange was 1.67:1  SharePoint was 1.98:1 • Deduplication rate for incremental backups to Avamar:  Exchange was 81:1 for a 3 percent data change rate  SharePoint was 12.61:1 for a 10 percent data change rate Benefits Based on the testing results, these are the main benefits of this solution. Reduce backup time through Avamar multi-streaming Backing up terabytes of data took a long time with a traditional, tape-based, backup solution. For example, when backing up 6.4 TB of data with LTO-5 (maximum 140 MB/s), the most advanced tape technology requires 13 hours for conventional tape backup, not including backup application time and performance. However, it took about only 5.5 hours to back up the same amount of Microsoft Exchange data through 1 Gb Ethernet with Avamar multi-streaming, which means the backup time is reduced by up to 58 percent. Reduction of backup times compared to traditional backups is much faster because Avamar deduplicates and sends only unique changes, thus less data, combined with faster ingests. Reduce granular recovery time The EMC Avamar plug-in for the Exchange GLR plug-in provides the capability to mount an existing backup’s database from the Avamar grid, which makes that database available on a mount point. This eliminates the time required to restore the database to a recovery database. Once you mount the database, it can be browsed, and individual items can be extracted from the database for recovery. The SharePoint GLR plug-in also mounts the content database using a mount point and eliminates the need to restore it to a different location before extracting items. Reduced backup storage requirements Compared with the traditional 100-percent-backup storage capacity requirement on tape, only a relatively small amount of additional capacity is required with data deduplication on Avamar grid. In this solution, the first full backup to Avamar of 9.76 TB of data used 6.51 TB of disk space after client-side deduplication. For a subsequent backup of a 3.15 percent data change under load, 9.85 TB of data used 278.20 GB of disk space after client-side deduplication. EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 35 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 36. Note Your results may vary depending on how many duplicates are in your specific environment. Notes and When EMC backed up to the Avamar grid, the CPU load on SharePoint SQL Server and recommendations Exchange mailbox servers were at 90 percent with the recommended eight cores. Avamar was configured to the maximum of six cores. Microsoft does not recommend such a high CPU usage, even though it did not affect performance. Restore times for Avamar were acceptable for both Exchange and SharePoint, however, Avamar backup times can be improved by adding more cores to the SQL and Exchange mailbox servers. Avamar backups used almost all of the spare CPU of the SQL and Exchange mailbox servers but application performance was not affected by this. With the advent of Avamar 6.0 and its multi-streaming backup capability, Avamar backs up and restores everything from small to enterprise-level environments, as proven in this solution. EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 36 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 37. Conclusion Summary EMC Avamar extends the optimization capabilities of EMC backup and recovery solutions to accelerate performance, enhance replication control, and simplify administration. Your IT backup administrator can now manage organization-wide backup workloads associated with each dataset from a single management interface. The EMC Avamar application plug-ins for Exchange and SharePoint enable application-consistent backups. Avamar client-side deduplication saves backup space and minimizes the amount of data that needs to be backed up. Findings Table 14 to Table 16 summarize the objectives of this solution and the results achieved. Table 14. Baseline performance Objective Results Validate Exchange 2010 design and layout Exchange 2010 performed at acceptable by showing acceptable performance levels levels, and storage layout was within parameters for performance. Validate SharePoint 2010 design and SharePoint 2010 performed at acceptable layout by showing acceptable performance levels, and storage layout was within levels parameters for performance. Table 15. Hardware load balancing Objective Results Show SharePoint farm performance impact Using a load balancer gives a slightly of a hardware load balancer better performance (3%). Table 16. Avamar backups Objective Results Show backup times for SharePoint 2010 With the recommended eight cores, CPU and Exchange 2010 to Avamar load on SharePoint SQL Server and Exchange mailbox servers were at 90%. Microsoft does not recommend such a high CPU usage for SQL Server or Exchange, although it did not affect application performance in EMC’s tests. Show deduplication rates for backups to • Initial deduplication rate of 1.67:1 for Avamar Exchange data • Initial deduplication rate of 1.98:1 for SharePoint data • Subsequent data change deduplication rate of 85:1 for Exchange data • Subsequent data change deduplication rate of 12.61:1 for SharePoint data EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 37 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 38. Objective Results Show restore times from Avamar for Restore times for Avamar were acceptable SharePoint 2010 and Exchange 2010 for both Exchange and SharePoint. Show how Avamar affects SharePoint and Avamar backups used almost all of the Exchange spare CPU of the SQL Server and Exchange mailbox servers, but application performance was not affected by this. Show in which environments Avamar is With the advent of Avamar 6.0 and its new best suited multi-streaming backup capability, Avamar backs up and restores everything from small to enterprise-level environments, as proven in this solution. For more information on the testing and validation done for this solution, see Appendix A: Detailed test results EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 38 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 39. References White papers For additional information, see the white papers listed below. • EMC Virtual Infrastructure for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 • Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Performance Review Using the EMC VNX5300 Unified Storage Platform—An Architectural Overview Product For additional information, see the product documents listed below. documentation • Avamar 6 Portfolio • Avamar Data Store Gen4 Multi-Node System Installation Guide • Avamar 6.0 for Exchange VSS Guide EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 39 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 40. Appendix A: Detailed test results Testing scenarios for this solution include: • Baseline application performance testing • Avamar: Backup testing with no data change and no load • Combined Avamar backup testing: With data change and without load • Combined Avamar backup testing: With data change and load • Avamar test results with encryption • Restore testing: Avamar Exchange native GLR restore • Restore testing: Avamar Exchange database recovery • Restore testing: Avamar SharePoint VSS restore of site collection database • Avamar restore testing: Kroll recovery of a site and single item in SharePoint • Hardware load balancing EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 40 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 41. Baseline Introduction application EMC ran this test to establish baseline performance and to validate the design and performance configuration of Exchange and SharePoint. testing Baseline test The objective of this test is to show the baseline performance when both Exchange applications and SharePoint applications are running at the same time in the environment. The load profiles are explained in each of the application sections that follow: • Microsoft Exchange 2010 Server • Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Server EMC ran all the tests for a minimum of eight hours concurrently to simulate a normal working day. Notes Benchmark results are highly dependent upon workload, specific application requirements, and system design and implementation. Relative system performance will vary as a result of these and other factors. Therefore, you should not use this workload as a substitute for a specific customer application benchmark when you are considering critical capacity planning and/or product evaluation decisions. All performance data contained in this report was obtained in a rigorously controlled environment. Results obtained in other operating environments may vary significantly. EMC Corporation does not warrant or represent that a user can or will achieve similar performance expressed in transactions per second. Exchange 2010 Server Performance After EMC completed the storage validation with Jetstress and determined that the storage was sized correctly and performed as expected, the next step in the validation process was to use the Microsoft Exchange Server Load Generator (LoadGen) tool to simulate a MAPI workload against the entire Exchange infrastructure. LoadGen testing is necessary to determine how each Exchange component performs under close-to-production user load. LoadGen requires full deployment of the Exchange environment for validation testing. You must perform all LoadGen validation testing in an isolated lab environment where there is no connectivity to production data. LoadGen: • Generates users and workloads against the entire Exchange environment, including network and storage components • Simulates the entire email flow and locates any bottlenecks in the solution • Assists in determining the CPU and memory resources that are required to sustain the load for which the Exchange environment is designed EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 41 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 42. The 64-bit version of LoadGen 2010 can be downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center. Test results In this solution, LoadGen 2010 was used to simulate Outlook 2007 online mode mailboxes with the following characteristics: • The action profile was 150 messages per mailbox per day • Each mailbox was 1.16 GB in size Note The building block design in this solution can support a mailbox size up to 1.5 GB. Due to the long time required for mailbox initialization, the mailbox size configured in LoadGen was 1 GB. The actual mailbox size populated by LoadGen was around 1.16 GB. EMC determined the validity of each test run by comparing the results of selected performance counters to Microsoft-specified criteria. Performance counter data was collected at one-minute intervals for the duration of each test run. The results of the first and last hours were discarded. Results were averaged over the remainder of the test. For additional information about monitoring Exchange 2010 performance and other key performance counters, see Microsoft Exchange Server Library topic Performance and Scalability Counters and Thresholds. Table 17 shows the LoadGen tests used to measure the performance of the Exchange infrastructure of this solution. Table 17. LoadGen tests Test Description 1 Normal operation: 8 hours, 100 percent concurrency test under normal operating conditions with 150 messages MAPI profile. The objective was to validate the entire Exchange environment under normal operating conditions. 2 Mailbox server failure: 8 hours, 100 percent concurrency test during the failure of one mailbox server and one client access server. All databases become active on the other mailbox server. All client RPC requests are processed by one client access server. The objective was to validate the environment's performance when one mailbox server and one client access server were lost. As shown in Table 18, the performance achieved by the Exchange virtual machines meets the target metrics in all test scenarios. In the second test scenario, the processor utilization on the remaining servers is increased due to the loss of one mailbox server and one client access server. EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 42 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 43. Table 18. Performance of virtual machines Failover Normal situation situation Server Performance counter Target (2,500 users per (5,000 users on server) single server) Mailbox server ProcessorPercent processor time Less than 80% 38% 59% MSExchange databaseI/O Less than 20 ms 10 11 database reads (attached) average latency MSExchange databaseI/O Less than 20 ms 1 2 database writes (attached) average latency Less than reads avg. MSExchange databaseI/O Less than 200 21 0 database reads (recovery) average ms latency MSExchange databaseI/O Less than 200 2 0 database writes (recovery) ms average latency MSExchange databaseI/O log Less than 20 ms 3 0 read average latency MSExchange databaseI/O log Less than 20 ms 3 1 writes average latency MSExchange Less than 2 1 0 Replication(*)ReplayQueueLengt h MSExchangeISRPC requests Less than 70 2 5 MSExchangeISRPC averaged Less than 10ms 3 4 latency CAS/HUB ProcessorPercent processor time Less than 80% 30% 60% servers combo MSExchange Less than 40 2 6 RpcClientAccessRPC Requests MSExchange Less than 250 9 13 RpcClientAccessRPC Averaged ms Latency MSExchangeTransport Less than 3,000 1 7 Queues(_total)Aggregate Delivery Queue Length (All Queues) MSExchangeTransport Less than 250 0 0 Queues(_total)Active Remote Delivery Queue Length EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 43 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter
  • 44. Failover Normal situation situation Server Performance counter Target (2,500 users per (5,000 users on server) single server) MSExchangeTransport Less than 250 1 7 Queues(_total)Active Mailbox Delivery Queue Length Figure 15 shows the throughput on Exchange active database LUNs. LoadGen simulated user actions were the main contributor to the activities on these LUNs. The average IOPS was 58.75, while the maximum was 126.66. 140 120 100 Exchange MB1 DB_1 Exchange MB1 DB_3 Exchange MB1 DB_5 80 Exchange MB1 DB_7 IOPS Exchange MB1 DB_9 60 Exchange MB2 DB_2 Exchange MB2 DB_4 40 Exchange MB2 DB_6 Exchange MB2 DB_8 20 Exchange MB2 DB_10 0 03:01:16 03:11:16 03:21:16 03:31:16 03:41:16 03:51:16 04:01:16 04:11:16 04:21:16 04:31:16 04:41:16 04:51:16 05:01:16 Figure 15. Exchange active database LUN throughput EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint 2010 Servers 44 EMC Avamar, EMC VNX, VMware vCenter