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Server consolidation with the Dell PowerEdge M620
Changing the default Mailbox Database drive location
1. Click Start, and click Exchange Management Console.
2. Right-click Mailbox Database.
3. Select Move Database Path.
4. Click Browse, navigate to E:\Database, and click Save.
5. Click Move.
6. When the application prompts you to dismount the mailbox database, click Yes.
7. Click Finish.
Installing LoadGen 2010 on HP Client
On a client with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP2 that is already part of the domain, perform the following steps:
1. Select StartAdministrative ToolServer Manager.
2. Click Features.
3. Click Add Features.
4. Select .NET Framework 3.5.1 Features.
5. When the Add Features Wizard pop-up window prompts you, click Add Required Role Services.
6. Click Next.
7. At the Introduction to Web Server (IIS) screen, click Next.
8. At the Select Role Services screen, click Next.
9. Click Install.
10. At the Installation Results screen, click Close.
11. Select the Loadgen2010 .EXE
12. At the welcome screen, click Next.
13. Accept the EULA, and click Next.
14. On the Select Installation Folder, click Next.
15. At the installation confirmation, click Next.
16. At the Installation complete screen, click Next.
17. On the Restart your systems prompt, click Yes.
Preparing LoadGen
1. Select StartAll ProgramsMicrosoft ExchangeExchange Load Generator.
2. When the Load Generator window appears, select Start a new test.
3. Select Create a new test configuration, and click Continue.
4. In the Specify test settings window, type Password1 as the Directory Access Password and Mailbox Account
Master Password, and click Continue with recipient management.
5. Make 2,000 users in the Mailbox Database, and click Continue.
6. To accept defaults for Advanced recipient settings, click Continue.
7. In the Specify test user groups window, select the plus sign (+) to add a user group.
8. Change the Client Type to Outlook 2007 Cached and the Action Profile to Average, 100MB and click Continue.
9. Leave defaults in Remote configurations, and click Continue.
10. Click Save the configuration file as, and name it 100x2000.cfg
11. Click Start the initialization phase (recommended before running the test) to start initialization. The initialization
process might take a few hours.
Backing up the mail database on the HP ProLiant BL460c G6
On the test server, once you have set up LoadGen and created its initial mail database, you need to back up that
database and log files so you can have clean copies for each test. Use this process to back up that database:
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