Email archiving: Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage
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1. A Principled Technologies test report 22 Servers Dell PowerEdge 2950 Dell PowerEdge M600 Dell PowerEdge R900 Dell PowerEdge R515 Speed in the system currently running MHz Timing Latency tCL tRCD iRP tRASmin Size GB 667 667 667 2 667 Number of RAM modules 32 Chip organization Double sided Double sided Double sided Double sided Hard disk Vendor and model number Number of disks in system Size GB Type Controller Controller driver Operating system Western Digital WD1602ABKS 160 SATA Dell SAS 6 iR LSI 1 28 3 52 Fujitsu MAY2073RC 2 73 SAS Dell SAS 6 iR LSI 1 28 3 52 Seagate ST973451SS SAS Serial Attached SCSI PERC 6 i LSI 4 5 0 64 Seagate T3146855SS RAID 1 1 x Seagate St373454SS 3 x Fujitsu Max3073RC Raid10 8 6 i 146 RAID 1 73 RAID 10 SAS 3Gbps LSI PERC H700 Integrated LSI 3 18 00 Name Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition SP1 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition SP1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition SP1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition SP1 Build number 7601 7601 7601 7601 File system NTFS NTFS NTFS NTFS Language English English English English Network card subsystem NIC one Vendor and model number Type Broadcom BCM5708C NetXtreme II Integrated Broad2. Dell PowerEdge R515 SQL server AAO i rar WEA o a a m m a a 2x Dell eres eo e PowerConnect C LSL R A L mamm 6248 switch 4x Dell EqualLogic PS5000XV Dell PowerEdge R900 Active Directory server Dell PowerEdge M1000e Modular Server Enclosure with 15x Dell PowerEdge M600 Blade Server t a v 7 Z u Dell PowerConnect 5448 switch Figure 6 Test bed configuration for the leading object storage platform we tested Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform A Ennapied Technologies tesi report ay Setting up the storage Dell PowerEdge M600 blades Dell PowerEdge R515 Dell PowerEdge R900 and Dell EqualLogic PSSOOOXV storage We installed all five Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers to use internal storage We configured the PERC 6i RAID controller for a RAID 1 configuration on a pair of 73GB SATA Disks for the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Both drives hosted the OS We installed the Dell PowerEdge R900 server to use internal storage We configured the PERC 6i RAID controller for a RAID 5 configuration with eight 73GB SAS Disks to host the Active Directory on the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 OS We installed the Dell PowerEdge R515 server to use internal storage We configured the PERC H700 RAID controller for a RAID1 configuration on two 73GB SAS disks to host the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 OS and another four 73GB SAS dis
3. SO Ur e wY Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform RENDE IS e TSeanONeeie pes ere port ae ae eee eer ae Va ian Aantacr nto V 7ra CON 1ante cnte yauit store on i Vault store for the leading object storage ault store for the Dell DX Object Storage File server platform Platform ALEADINGOBJECTSTORAGEPLATFORM 1 ALEADINGOBJECTSTORAGEPLATFORM 2 ALEADINGOBJECTSTORAGEPLATFORM 3 ALEADINGOBJECTSTORAGEPLATFORM 4 ALEADINGOBJECTSTORAGEPLATFORM 1 ALEADINGOBJECTSTORAGEPLATFORM 2 ALEADINGOBJECTSTORAGEPLATFORM 3 File 9 ALEADINGOBJECTSTORAGEPLATFORM 4 File 10 ALEADINGOBJECTSTORAGEPLATFORM 5 File 11 ALEADINGOBJECTSTORAGEPLATFORM 1 File 12 ALEADINGOBJECTSTORAGEPLATFORM 2 File 13 ALEADINGOBJECTSTORAGEPLATFORM 3 File 14 ALEADINGOBJECTSTORAGEPLATFORM 4 File 15 ALEADINGOBJECTSTORAGEPLATFORM 5 Figure 7 The Symantec Enterprise Vault Store configuration we used for testing Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform A Erineipied Technologios testreport aa APPENDIX C SERVER AND STORAGE CONFIGURATION INFORMATION Figure 8 provides configuration information about the test servers Servers Dell PowerEdge 2950 General processor setup Dell PowerEdge M600 Dell PowerEdge R900 Dell PowerEdge R515 Number of processor packages Number of cores per processor
4. http www dell com us enterprise owervault dx6000 pd refid dell dx Leading object storage platform We chose a leading object storage platform to compare against the performance of Dell DX storage platform This is a disk based platform that addresses the need for fixed content data storage that provides features similar to DX such as fault tolerance and scalability We set up the platform which is certified by many application vendors with the same capacity 7 2K RPM SATA II disk drives as the Dell DX platform 1 http www rcfp org newsitems index php i 11596 Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform A Principled Technologies test report 3 Symantec Enterprise Vault Symantec Enterprise Vault version 9 0 2 1061 is an email and file archiving program designed specifically for storing managing and retrieving data Enterprise Vault can store data on several different platforms including Dell DX Object Storage and the chosen leading platform it can also archive data from programs such as Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint To learn more about Symantec Enterprise Vault visit http www symantec com business enterprise vault ACCELERATED EMAIL ARCHIVING RESULTS Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform We used Symantec Enterprise Vault on five Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers to archive emai
5. 7 2K RPM SATA II drives just as with the Dell DX nodes Best practice recommendations for obtaining the maximum performance were followed when setting up and configuring competitor s platform including the use of distinct networking and switch requirements as per vendor documentation Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform A Pniel isa TEC NMOVCEI eS test ne nat ios DX6000 Cluster Services Node with Obi ject Storage network 8x DX6004s Storage Node ax Del PowerEdge 2990 e Data network E _ Enterprise Vault servers e iSCSI network a B DD Dell PowerEdge R515 SQL server MMDA UCCA Paes era 2x Dell r Se SSS Se PowerConnect San Rn Sa mmm 6248 switch WWW 4x Dell EqualLogic PS5000XV Dell PowerEdge R900 Active Directory server Dell PowerEdge M1000e Modular Server Enclosure with 15x Dell PowerEdge M600 Blade Server Dell PowerConnect 5448 switch ew adddaaaddee E f moog ae CAAA AAA ka A LLL PDD Figure 5 Test bed configuration for Dell DX Object Storage Platform Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform A Pipcpled Tecnologi tesehepert 2 8X Leading object storage platform nodes 5x Dell PowerEdge 2950 Object ae network i e Data networ Enterprise Vault servers iSCSI network
6. archive content and even with a content management system a cumbersome and time consuming manual retrieval process Such limitations make it difficult for companies to reliably locate the information they need in an urgent situation such as when preparing for a lawsuit To combat these limitations companies are turning to object based storage solutions that use metadata and protect individual content As the name implies object based storage saves files as individual objects These data objects are a combination the file itself as well as metadata about the file Simply put metadata is an assortment of characteristics that describe the object Metadata provides far more contextual information about a file which allows users to conduct context based searches This improves the speed A Principled Technologies test report 2 File Object VS File Name aplication txt Received 13 24 00 Created By Smit Message ID 20459190 Created on 01 21 2010 References HR File Type email Compared to unstructured data structured data using object based storage provides extensive context for each data object which assists in the retrieval process OUR TEST COMPONENTS of file retrieval and increases the relevance of files retrieved The illustration on the following page shows such metadata How important is metadata Very according to the US Supreme Court In 2010 s O Neill vs City of Shoreline the Court established the prece
7. boot sequence Setting up the internal storage on the R515 for host operating system installation and SQL data Pwhn wo oN au Enter the RAID controller BIOS by pressing Ctrl R at the relevant prompt during boot Highlight Controller 0 and press F2 Select Create New VD Select the first two drives select RAID level 1 tab to the OK button and press Enter Accept the warning regarding initialization Select the new virtual drive press F2 and select Initialization Start Init Wait for the initialization operation to complete Press Escape Highlight Controller 0 and press F2 Select drives three through six select RAID level 10 tab to the OK button and press Enter Accept the warning regarding initialization 10 Wait for the initialization operation to complete 11 Press Escape and choose to Save and Exit to return to the boot sequence Setting up the internal storage on the M600 for host operating system installation 1 PW OY som 8 Enter the RAID controller BIOS by pressing Ctrl R at the relevant prompt during boot Highlight Controller 0 and press F2 Select Create New VD Select the first two drives select RAID level 1 tab to the OK button and press Enter Accept the warning regarding initialization Select the new virtual drive press F2 and select Initialization Start Init Wait for the initialization operation to complete Repeat steps 2 through 6 for the remaining internal volume select
8. console Click start gt Enterprise Vault gt Configuration Wizard In the Enterprise Vault Configuration Wizard click Yes to create a new vault directory on this computer Click the English for the control language and click Next When prompted for account details use test administrator and confirm the password Click Next Enter SQL 1 for the SQL server name Enter SQL 1 eS sqldata for the database and transaction log locations and click Next Enter EV 1 for name and description of the enterprise vault site and click Next Enter ev 1 for the DNS alias of the server and click Next Click Yes to use the DNS name Enter the domain Administrator Password for the Vault Service account and click OK To add EV 1 to the site click Next Click Add to add additional services Select all four enterprise vault Services and click Next For confirmation and informational pages click Next 27 Click the radio button next to Just close this wizard when done and click Finish Wan anpwn Pp PRPRPRPRPRPRPRPRPB OANDUBRWNPRO NNNNNNN Nu BWNFrF O Installing Symantec Enterprise Vault Add additional servers to the Vault Directory EV 2 1 Log into EV 2 as administrator 2 Insert the installation DVD for Symantec Enterprise Vault into the DVD drive 3 Run evault_setup Symantec Enterprise Vault 9 0 2 Server setup exe 4 Atthe Enterprise Vault Install Shield Welcome screen click Next 5 Ac
9. file servers we used five Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers running the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 OS each with a copy of Symantec Enterprise Vault 9 0 2 installed We configured a stacked pair of Dell PowerConnect 6248 switches to act as the core network for the data and CAS networks and a dedicated Dell PowerConnect 5448 switch for ISCSI traffic We connected all 15 Dell PowerEdge M600 file servers with a dedicated 1Gbps link to the Dell PowerConnect 5448 switch and another to the Dell PowerConnect 6248 stack Each of the five Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers has four single Gbps links to the Dell PowerConnect 6248 stack two for the data network and two to the object storage network We installed a Dell PowerEdge R900 with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 to Host Active Directory and connected it to the Dell PowerConnect 6248 stack with a single Gbps link To host the Symantec Enterprise Vault SQL database we installed a Dell PowerEdge R515 with the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 OS and connected it to the Dell PowerConnect 6248 stack with a single Gbps link We then installed Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP1 We connected the Dell DX Object Storage eight node storage cluster to the Dell PowerConnect 6248 stack Figure 6 shows the corresponding leading object storage platform Eight nodes were used for an even comparison and these nodes were connected to the same test configuration Each of the eight nodes was installed with four 1TB
10. 59 ccc6a4f9dc19 amp displaylang en Run SQLServer2008SP1 KB968369 x64 ENU exe On the Welcome screen click Next On the License terms screen accept the license terms and click Next On the Features screen select available features and click Next On the Check files in use screen click Next On the Update screen click Next When the update completes click Next and click Close 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Setting up the file servers file 1 This section outlines how to install and prepare a Dell PowerEdge M600 blade server to be a Microsoft Windows file server named file 1 Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 1 Connect an external DVD drive to the Blade 1 in the Chassis and power on the Dell PowerEdge M600 2 Insert the installation DVD for Windows Server 2008 R2 into the DVD drive 3 Choose the language time and currency and keyboard input Click Next 4 Click Install Now 5 Choose Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Full Installation and click Next 6 Accept the license terms and click Next 7 Click Custom 8 Click the Disk and click Drive options advanced 9 Click New gt Apply gt Format and click Next 10 After the installation completes click OK to set the Administrator password 11 Enter the administrator password twice and click OK 12 Connect the machine to the Internet and install all available Windows updates Restart as necessary 13 Enable remote desktop access 14 Change th
11. EMAIL ARCHIVING STORAGE PERFORMANCE OF DELL DX OBJECT STORAGE PLATFORM VS A LEADING OBJECT STORAGE PLATFORM Dell DX Object Storage Platform faster email archiving versus a leading object storage platform The amount of digital information in today s world is growing rapidly with one estimate suggesting a 44 fold increase to 35 trillion gigabytes by 2020 How best to store it all For organizations storing employee and customer emails effective storage includes archiving files in a secure and timely manner This process is not just about convenience in the face of lawsuits and stringent regulations like the Sarbanes Oxley Act it s a matter of survival Principled Technologies tested two object based storage solutions with email archiving performance in mind We used the Dell DX Object Storage Platform and a leading object storage platform to archive email files testing how many objects per second each storage platform archived We used Symantec Enterprise Vault archiving platform software on each storage solution In our tests the Dell DX Object Storage Platform excelled at archiving higher amounts of objects per second archiving 112 6 percent more objects per second than a leading object storage platform IDC Digital Universe Study May 2010 D EE August 2011 al i A PRINCIPLED TECHNOLOGIES TEST REPORT Commissioned by Dell Inc To help protect consumers and employees in the digital age US government and ind
12. Mode Enter a password for the system administrator sa account Click Add Current user Note This may take several seconds Click Next Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform A Principled Technologies test report 14 27 On the Error and usage reporting screen click Next 28 On the Installation rules screen click Next 29 On the Ready to Install screen click Next 30 After installation completes click Start All Programs Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Configuration Tools SQL Server Configuration Manager 31 Expand the Network Configuration node and select the relevant instance 32 In the right pane right click TCP IP and choose Enable 33 In the right pane right click Named Pipes and choose Enable 34 In the left pane click SQL Server Services 35 In the right pane right click the SQL Server service and select Restart 36 Click Start Run and type Services msc and press Enter 37 Change SQL server Analysis Services and click Properties 38 Click the login tab and change to domain administrator type the Password for the account confirm the password and click OK 39 Restart the SQL server Analysis Services service 40 Repeat Steps 37 through 39 for the SQL Reporting Service Installing SQL Server 2008 SP1 Service Pack 1 is available for download from http www microsoft com downloads details aspx FamilyID 66ab3dbb bf3e 4f46 95
13. Platfornm by clicking Next Begin the creation of the vault group and click Next Select server EV 1 as the storage server and click Next Enter the name ALeadingObjectStoragePlatform 1 for the vault store and description and click Next Accept the default SQL server name SQL 1 and click Next Browse to e sqldata for both file group and transaction log locations and click Next In the remove safety copies dropdown box select Immediately after backup and click Next Click Next to create vault store ALeadingObjectStoragePlatformi on EV 1 Begin the creation of the vault store partition and click Next Accept the defaults for name and description ensure the new partition is open and click Next Select the appropriate vendor for the storage type and click Next Add the IP address of all vendor s nodes and click Test Ensure the platform is responsive and click Next Select a retention period by selecting the radio button next to never and click Next Leave the scan period at 60 minutes and click Next Leave remaining options at default Confirm the new partition creation by clicking Finish Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform A Principled Technologies test report 19 25 Right click the vault store group ALeadingObjectStoragePlatform and click New vault store 26 Repeat steps 9 through 16 four times to create vault stores and partitio
14. XCLUSIVE REMEDIES ARE AS SET FORTH HEREIN Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform REENE IGE TiS eanONeeie Pes e pale gE
15. YWN 10 11 12 Log into EV 1 as administrator Open the Enterprise vault administrator Console Browse to Enterprise vault Directory onEV 1 gt EV 1 gt Targets gt File Servers Right click File Servers and select New file server In the new file server wizard click Next In the name type file 1 test local Select the checkbox next to Install the FSA Agent on the new file server and click Next Click Next to add the fileserver and install the agents When prompted for the Vault service account enter the domain administrator password and click OK When the wizard is done installing the FSA agent click Next Click Next to allow data collection Repeat steps 1 through 12 for all 15 file servers Configuring the archive stores on the leading object storage platform 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Log into EV 1 as test administrator Open the Enterprise vault administrator Console Browse to Enterprise vault gt Directory on EV 1 gt EV 1 gt Vault Store Groups right click and select New Vault Store Group Click Next when the new Vault store Group wizard begins For the Name and description type ALeadingObjectStoragePlatform and click Next Create a SQL fingerprint for the Vault store group leave the SQL Server default name SQL 1 and click Next Browse to e sqldata for both file group and transaction log locations and click Next Create the vault store group named ALeadingObjectStorage
16. aincl pled TEcAhologios tesrheperty APPENDIX B DETAILED TEST METHODOLOGY Here we explain the detailed steps we followed to set up our test scenario To show the differences between the Dell DX6000 Object Storage Platform and a leading object storage platform we configured a large test bed with real world servers and archiving solutions We installed 15 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 file servers and configured two shared directories one named LV and the other named DX We copied our email files equally across 15 file servers and then installed five Symantec Enterprise Vault servers to archive the email files We configured a task in Symantec Enterprise Vault to archive the 15 LV file shares to the leading object storage platform and then configured another task to archive the other 15 DX file shares to the Dell DX Object Storage Platform We ran the tasks on the leading object storage platform verified the archive then ran the Dell DX tasks verified the results and compared the results from the Symantec Enterprise Vault task logs Figure 5 shows our test environment for the Dell DX6000 Each of the eight Dell DX nodes was configured with four 1TB 7 2K RPM SATA II drives We configured the Dell DX6000 with system defaults We configured all 15 Dell PowerEdge M600 blades servers with the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 operating system OS We used the Dell EqualLogic PSSOOOXV storage array to house the data To archive data on the
17. cept the license agreement by clicking Yes 6 Accept the default install location and click Next 7 Keep the default features and click Next 8 At Prerequisites check Click next 9 Inthe Best practices screen leave the recommended setting box checked and click Next 10 Enter the license key for Enterprise vault and click Next 11 The install wizard will warn you that several services need to be restarted Click Next 12 Allow the installation wizard to install Enterprise Vault 13 When completed allow the install wizard to reboot 14 Open the Enterprise Vault administrator console Click Start gt Enterprise Vault gt Configuration Wizard Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform REENE IIe Seana ele Pees ere Dore A 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 In the Enterprise Vault Configuration Wizard join an existing Directory and select EV 1 Click Next Enter ev 2 for the DNS alias of the server click Next Enter the domain Administrator Password for the Vault Service account and click OK Click Add to add additional services Select all four enterprise vault Services and click Next Click the radio button next to Just close this wizard when done and click Finish Repeat steps 1 through 20 for each of the remaining three Enterprise Vault servers Installing Symantec Enterprise Vault install client agents on the target servers B OPNDNP
18. com BCM5708S NetXtreme Il Integrated Broadcom NetXtreme Il BCM57710 10 Gigabit PCle 4 x Discrete Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57710 10 Gigabit PCle Integrated Driver Broadcom 6 2 9 0 Broadcom 6 2 9 0 Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform Microsoft 4 8 4 1 Microsoft 4 8 4 1 12 23 2008 A Principled Technologies test report 23 Broadcom NetXtreme Intel PRO 1000 PT II BCM5708 Gigabit Intel Pro 1000 PT Ethernet Type PCI Express PCl e PCl e Driver Intel 9 13 41 0 Microsoft 4 8 4 1 9 14 180 0 USB ports Type i 2 0 a 2 0 Figure 8 Detailed configuration information for the test servers Vendor and model number Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform Lee ICE Technologijos teen een 2s APPENDIX D ABOUT THE FILE CORPUS Here we present information on the files that constitute our email corpus Using the Linux DD command http www redhat com mirrors LDP LDP abs html extmisc html we created a corpus of unique urandom files that simulated an organization s email files The average object size for all files used in testing was 8KB Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform Een PME ICE Technologies testrepor 2s ABOUT PRINCIPLED TECHNOLOGIES B We provide industr
19. created seven 250 GB LUNS for blades 8 through 15 Setting up the internal storage on the Dell PowerEdge R900 for host operating system installation 1 Enter the RAID controller BIOS by pressing Ctrl R at the relevant prompt during boot 2 Highlight Controller 0 and press F2 3 Select Create New VD 4 Select all eight drives select RAID level 5 tab to the OK button and press Enter Accept the warning regarding initialization 5 Select the new virtual drive press F2 and select Initialization Start Init 6 Wait for the initialization operation to complete 7 Repeat steps 2 through 6 for the remaining internal volume selecting drives three and four 8 Press Escape and choose to Save and Exit to return to the boot sequence Setting up the internal storage on the Dell PowerEdge 2950 for host operating system installation 1 Enter the RAID controller BIOS by pressing Ctrl R at the relevant prompt during boot 2 Highlight Controller 0 and press F2 3 Select Create New VD Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform qe les eRe Step eye 5 6 7 Select both drives select RAID level 1 tab to the OK button and press Enter Accept the warning regarding initialization Select the new virtual drive press F2 and select Initialization Start Init Wait for the initialization operation to complete Press Escape and choose to Save and Exit to return to the
20. dent that email metadata is subject to disclosure under the Public Records Act t In addition to metadata object based storage assigns a unique ID to each data object This enables object based storage platforms to locate the data object without a traditional hierarchical file directory Users can still retrieve the file even if it changes locations Because companies often store different kinds of data in different storage silos sometimes moving data between locations this is especially helpful Because archiving moves copies of data to other storage the need for manual backups is greatly reduced To fully comply with government regulations like the Sarbanes Oxley Act businesses must be able to prove that emails haven t been altered Object based storage offers such proof It assigns a unique hash signature that reflects the specific information in that file and that hash will change or no longer be allowed if any of the information in the file is changed In this way data owners can be confident that an archived file always matches the original Dell DX Object Storage Platform The Dell DX Object Storage Platform is an integrated software and hardware based object storage solution that handles the storage management and preservation of unstructured files Because it uses an object based approach making use of metadata it helps administrators archive and locate large amounts of data For a full list of features visit
21. e hostname and reboot when prompted 15 Set up networking for the data network Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform Geen les eS E IES TER Epon da 16 17 18 19 Click Start Control Panel right click Network Connections and choose Open Right click the VM traffic NIC and choose Properties Select TCP IP v4 and choose Properties Set the IP address subnet gateway and DNS server Repeat Step 15 for the ISCSI network For iSCSI NICs open the connection properties Click Configure for The ISCSI NIC and modify the advanced properties of each NIC setting the MTU to 9000 Join the test com domain and reboot Log in as test administrator 2an ow Installing Dell EqualLogic Host Integration Tools for MPIO Log into Windows and start the Dell EqualLogic Host Integration Tools installer At the Welcome screen click Next At the License Agreement screen click Next At the Installation Type screen select Typical Requires reboot on Windows Server platforms and click Next In the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator service is not running window click Yes to start the service and enable iSCSI traffic through the firewall In the Microsoft iSCSI service window click Yes When the iSCSI Initiator Properties window pops up accept the defaults and click OK If a Windows Firewall Detected window appears click Yes to enable echo requests At the Ready
22. echnologies test report 12 6 h Repeat steps e through g seven times for bladeserver2 through 8 for a total of eight LUNS Be sure to adjust the iSCSI name in Step g to coincide with the server name Repeat Step 5 e though g and create seven more 250GB LUNS for bladeserver 9 through 15 Setting up the Active Directory server DC1 Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 O 00 N OT ee IS PRPRPRPR BWNRO Insert the installation DVD for Windows Server 2008 R2 into the DVD drive Choose the language time and currency and keyboard input Click Next Click Install Now Choose Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Full Installation and click Next Accept the license terms and click Next Click Custom Click the Disk and click Drive options advanced Click New Apply gt Format and click Next After the installation completes click OK to set the Administrator password Enter the administrator password twice and click OK Connect the machine to the Internet and install all available Windows updates Restart as necessary Enable remote desktop access Change the hostname and reboot when prompted Set up networking for the data network Click Start Control Panel right click Network Connections and choose Open Right click the VM traffic NIC and choose Properties Uncheck TCP IP v6 Select TCP IP v4 and choose Properties e Set the IP address subnet gateway and DNS server 2000 Installing Act
23. ing drives three and four Press Escape and choose to Save and Exit to return to the boot sequence Setting up the external storage 1 a ws Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform Using the command line console via serial cable reset the first Dell EqualLogic PS5000XV by using the reset command Supply a group name group IP address and IP address for ethO on the first of three arrays Reset the second array in the same manner supply the group name to join and IP address created in Step 2 Repeat Steps 1 through 3 for Array three and four to create two storage groups After group creation using a computer connected to the same subnet as the storage use the Dell EqualLogic Web interface to do the following Assign IP addresses on the remaining NICs eth1 and eth2 on each array Enable the NICs Verify matching firmware levels on each array and MTU size of 9 000 on each NIC on each array Create a storage pool by right clicking Storage pools and choosing Create storage pool Click each member and choose Yes when prompted to configure the member Choose RAID 50 for the RAID Policy for both members Create a 250GB volume to host the data volumes for bladeserver1 For the volumes created in the previous step limit access to ISCSI initiator name and enter iqn 1991 05 com microsoft bladeserverl test local for the initiator name mam hoang A Principled T
24. ion finishes click Exit If any warnings appear about compatibility accept them as installing SP1 in the next section should solve them If the application prompts you click OK to install a hotfix for Windows KB942288 Click Restart now to restart the server upon completion After rebooting log into the server Click Start and click Computer Double click the CD DVD drive Click Installation Click New SQL Server stand alone installation On the Setup support rules screen click OK Specify the Enterprise Evaluation free edition and click Next Click the checkbox to accept the license terms and click Next Click Install to install the setup support files You may see a Windows Firewall warning For now ignore this and click Next On the Feature Selection screen select Database Engine Services Full Text Search Analysis Services Reporting Services Client Tools Connectivity Client Tools Backward Compatibility Management Tools Basic and Management Tools Complete Click Next On the Instance configuration screen leave the default selection of default instance and click Next On the Disk space requirements screen change this install directory to e SQLdata and click Next On the Server configuration screen choose NT AUTHORITY SYSTEM for SQL Server Agent and choose NT AUTHORITY SYSTEM for SQL Server Database Engine Click Next On the Database Engine Configuration screen select Mixed
25. ive Directory and DNS services on DC1 1 2 COONAN 10 11 Click Start gt Run type dcpromo and click OK At the Active Directory Domain Services Installation Wizard welcome screen check the Use advanced mode installation option and click Next In the Choose a Deployment Configuration dialog box select Create a new domain in a new forest and click Next At the FQDN page type test comand click Next At the NetBIOS name prompt leave the name test and click Next At the Forest Functionality level select Windows Server 2008 R2 and click Next At the additional Domain Controller Options leave DNS server selected and click Next At the System Folder Location screen leave the default options and click Next Assign a Directory Services Restore Mode Administrator account password and click Next At the Summary screen review your selections and click Next Once Active Directory Domain Services finishes installing click Finish and restart the system Setting up the Symantec Enterprise Vault SQL Server SQL 1 Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 1 Dot PS Insert the installation DVD for Windows Server 2008 R2 into the DVD drive Choose the language time and currency and keyboard input Click Next Click Install Now Choose Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Full Installation and click Next Accept the license terms and click Next Click Custom Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object S
26. ks in a RAID 10 array for Microsoft SQL Server data We configured 15 Dell PowerEdge M600 blades to use both internal and external storage For each Dell PowerEdge M600 blade we configured a virtual disk on a RAID 1 array using the two internal 15K 36GB SAS drives connected to the RAID controller We used this Virtual Disk to host the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 OS on each server For data that was to be archived we configured a dedicated 1Gb iSCSI link on each Dell PowerEdge M600 Server We connected all 15 iSCSI links to a Dell PowerConnect 5448 switch connected to four Dell EqualLogic PSSOOOXV storage arrays Figures 5 and 6 on the prior page show the layout of the test bed hardware that we used for testing both the DX Object Storage and a leading object storage platform All recommended best practices associated with a leading object storage platform were followed We enabled jumbo frames on all iSCSI dedicated NICs To do this in Windows we adjusted the MTU to 9 000 via the NIC properties window We enabled jumbo frames on the Dell PowerConnect 5448 switch and on each NIC on the Dell EqualLogic PS5000XV storage Each Dell EqualLogic PS5000XV contained 16 drives We configured two storage groups with two Dell EqualLogic PS5000XVs as members We configured both groups to have single storage pools in RAID 50 mode On the storage pool on storage group 1 we created eight 250 GB LUNS for blades 1 through 8 and on the storage pool in storage group 2 we
27. l files from 15 Dell PowerEdge M600 blade servers onto a Dell DX Object Storage Platform and performed this same task on a leading object storage platform For our testing we used an average email size of 8KB In our tests the Dell DX Object Storage Platform archived email files consistently better than the competing solution for a 112 6 percent increase in throughput which we calculated in objects per second see Figure 1 We began testing on the five servers simultaneously and recorded the total objects archived We also captured the duration of the archive which is how long it took to perform this task The average duration was captured as the average of the individual server s duration We calculated objects second as the total objects divided by duration We calculated percentage win based on the aggregate objects second results Refer to Appendix A for the individual tests run on each server Figure 1 presents the archiving performance in objects per second for the two solutions normalized to the leading object storage platform for percentage improvement comparison A Principled Technologies test report 4 Normalized archiving performance 250 200 g 112 6 a increase g 150 wn b 2 100 v N T 50 2 0 Leading object storage platform Dell DX Object Storage Platform Figure 1 Normalized performance of email archiving on the Dell DX platform and a leading object storage platform We exp
28. lain our detailed test results in Appendix A our test methodology in Appendix B our server and storage configuration information in Appendix C and our email files corpus in Appendix D FINAL THOUGHTS Object based storage enables companies to effectively and confidently manage their ever expanding email archives by using metadata and unique identifiers for each email object While the Dell DX Object Storage and the leading object storage platform we tested both provide these capabilities DX Object Storage can archive substantially more objects per second over 112 percent in our tests than a leading object storage platform Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform A Pipapled TEcihologios tesehepert 3 APPENDIX A DETAILED TEST RESULTS Figures 2 presents our normalized test results for the entire duration of the Symantec Enterprise Vault tasks for each of the individual servers used to stream objects to the archival platform We normalized all results to the lowest performing server for the leading object storage platform Normalized archiving performance by server N O O 150 100 w O Normalized objects per second Server 1 Server 2 Server 3 Server 4 Server 5 E Leading object storage platform B Dell DX Object Storage Platform Figure 2 Normalized email archiving performance on the Dell DX Object Storage Platform and a leading objec
29. ns for the leading object storage platform on all five Enterprise Vault servers Configuring the archive stores on the Dell DX 1 Log into EV 1 as administrator 2 Open the Enterprise vault administrator console 3 Browse to Enterprise vault gt Directory onEV 1 gt EV 1 gt Vault Store Groups right click and select New Vault Store Group 4 Click Next when the new Vault store Group wizard begins 5 Forthe name and description type DX and click Next 6 Create a SQL fingerprint for the Vault store group leave the SQL Server default name SQL 1 and click Next 7 Browse to e sqldata for both file group and transaction log locations and click Next 8 Create the vault store group named DX by clicking Next 9 Begin the creation of the vault group and click Next 10 Select server EV 1 as the storage server and click Next 11 Enter the name DX 1 for the vault store and description and click Next 12 Accept the default SQL server name SQL 1 and click Next 13 Browse to e sqidata on sql 1 for both file group and transaction log locations and click Next 14 In the remove safety copies dropdown box select after backup and click Next 15 Click Next to create vault store DX 1 on EV 1 16 Begin the creation of the vault store partition and click Next 17 Accept the defaults for name and description ensure the new partition is open and click Next 18 Select Dell DX Object Storage Platform for the storage
30. package Number of hardware threads per core Vendor Intel Intel Name Stepping Intel Xeon processor E5405 EO Intel Xeon processor E5345 B Intel Intel Xeon processor E7450 Al AMD Opteron 4180 HY D1 Socket type LGA 771 LGA 771 LGA 771 Socket C32 1207 Core frequency GHz 2 00 2 33 2 40 2 60 Bus frequency 1 333 MHz 1 333 MHz 1 066 MHz 2 000 MHz HyperTransport Technology L1 cache KB 128 128 32 KB instruction 32 KB data 64 KB 64 KB per core L2 cache 12 MB 8 MB 3 x 3 072 KB 6 x 512 KB per core Thermal design power TDP in watts 80 80 90 115 Platform Vendor and model number Motherboard model number Motherboard chipset BIOS name and version BIOS settings Dell PowerEdge 2950 0M332H Intel 5000X Dell 2 7 0 Default Dell PowerEdge M600 Dell OMY736 Intel 5000P Dell 2 4 0 Default Dell PowerEdge R900 0X947H 7300 Dell BIOS 1 1 10 Default Dell PowerEdge R515 03X0MN IDSA12 Dell Inc 1 2 5 Default Memory modules Vendor and model Samsung Samsung Samsung Samsung number M395T5750EZ4 CE66 M395T2953EZA CE65 M395T5750EZ4 CE65 M391B5273CHO CH9 Type PC2 5300 PC2 5300 PC2 5300F PC3 10600E Speed MHz 667 667 667 667 Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform
31. s mal Join the test com domain and reboot 24 25 Loginas test administrator Repeat Steps 1 through 24 for the remaining four Enterprise Vault Servers Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform A Principled Technologies test report 17 Installing Symantec Enterprise Vault Create a new Vault Directory Server EV 1 Note Before installing ensure that IIS Microsoft net framework and MSMQ are installed on the Windows 2008 R2 server Refer to page 38 and 39 of the Installing and configuring guide http www symantec com business support index page content amp id DOC2845 Insert the installation DVD for Symantec Enterprise Vault into the DVD drive Run evault_setup Symantec Enterprise Vault 9 0 2 Server setup exe At the Enterprise Vault Install Shield Welcome screen click Next Accept the license agreement by clicking Yes Accept the default install location and click Next Keep the default features and click Next At Prerequisites check click Next In the Best practices screen leave the recommended setting box checked and click Next Enter the license key for Enterprise vault and click Next The install wizard will warn you that several services need to be restarted Click Next Allow the installation wizard to install Enterprise Vault When completed allow the install wizard to reboot Open the Enterprise Vault administrator
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33. sing number of strict private and government regulations see sidebar Proper archiving has numerous benefits It helps companies comply with government and industry regulations and makes it easier to retrieve data to respond to lawsuits avoiding delays that can be costly and damaging Additionally archiving can optimize other areas of the enterprise such as backup procedures by taking outdated data out of the workflow THE CASE FOR OBJECT BASED STORAGE Effectively archiving emails requires more than just storage space It also requires an intelligent reliable storage method that is capable of archiving many objects per second Emails have traditionally been backed up as datastores such as PST files making individual emails difficult to restore Such datastores lack any context or metadata that would facilitate rapid search and retrieval Very little descriptive information is available to provide a larger context Additionally traditional file based storage sees the data in an unstructured file as a series of unrelated data blocks and is more concerned with location of data within folders and subfolders than with extensive metadata Later technology allowed for drilling into datastores to pull out individual mailboxes and later individual messages Even so users could not know whether the original email message had since been changed The consequence for organizations A lack of confidence about the validity of their email
34. t At the Specify Volume Size window leave the default selection and click Next At the Assign Drive Letter or Path window choose a drive letter use drive letter E and click Next At the Format Partition window choose NTFS and 64K allocation unit size and click Next At the Completing the New Simple Volume Wizard window click Finish Open the E drive in windows explorer a create a new folder called email Share the email folder by right clicking it and selecting Properties Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform A Principled Technologies test report 16 12 13 14 15 Click the sharing tab and click Share Type the name everyone and click Add Select the Everyone permissions and change them to read write Important Repeat the section Setting up the file servers for each of the remaining 14 Dell PowerEdge M600 blade servers Setting up the Enterprise Vault servers EV 1 This section outlines how to install and prepare a Dell PowerEdge 2950 to be a Symantec Enterprise Vault server Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 SO 00 SY UT RTW PRPRPRPRPRPRBR NU BWNPRO 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Insert the installation DVD for Windows Server 2008 R2 into the DVD drive Choose the language time and currency and keyboard input Click Next Click Install Now Choose Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Full Installation and click Ne
35. t storage platform by email server Each test bed used five Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers as email servers with data We simulated an email archive job by copying random groups of the email files to each of the servers to ensure that some servers would have more email files to archive than other servers would Figures 3 and 4 provide information around the test bed input data in terms of the number of objects per ingest server average size of the object and overall amount of data output from each of the servers Because the two test beds were independent the total objects differ somewhat between the two test beds Because we compare objects second which is a throughput metric the results are comparable despite the total objects differing between the two test beds Server 1 29 917 Server 2 29 815 Server 3 30 720 Server 4 29 815 Server 5 29 675 Figure 3 Data sets used to test the email archiving performance of the Dell DX Object Storage Platform Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform A Principled Technologies tesehepart 6 Server 1 28 734 Server 2 25 153 Server 3 28 891 Server 4 26 131 Server 5 28 707 Figure 4 Data sets used to test the email archiving performance of a leading object storage platform Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform peP
36. to install the components screen click Install Inthe Microsoft Multipath I O feature is not detected window click Yes to install the feature At the Installation Complete screen click Finish Inthe System Restart Required window select Yes want to restart my computer now and click OK After reboot open the Dell EqualLogic Host Integration Toolkit remote setup wizard and click configure MPIO Under Subnets included for MPIO ensure only the iSCSI subnet is included in the include section Connecting to the volumes with Microsoft iSCSI Initiator 1 WO GIR Ws Using the Dell EqualLogic Web UI ensure the data volumes are online Click Start gt Administrative Tools iSCSI Initiator Select the Discovery Tab and click Discover Portal Enter the IP address for the Dell EqualLogic Storage Group and click OK Select the Targets tab and click Refresh Select the first Inactive Target listed and click Connect Ensure that Add this connection to the list of Favorite Targets is selected check the Enable multi path check box and click OK Configuring the external volumes in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 e WONDNAWH 10 11 Click the Server Manager icon in the taskbar In the left pane expand Storage and click Disk Management Right click the first external volume and choose Initialize Disk In the right pane right click the volume and choose New Simple Volume At the welcome window click Nex
37. torage Platform vs a leading object storage platform A Principled Technologies test report 13 15 16 17 18 19 Click the Disk and click Drive options advanced Click New gt Apply Format and click Next After the installation completes click OK to set the Administrator password Enter the administrator password twice and click OK Connect the machine to the Internet and install all available Windows updates Restart as necessary Enable remote desktop access Change the hostname and reboot when prompted Set up networking for the data network Click Start Control Panel right click Network Connections and choose Open Right click the VM traffic NIC and choose properties Uncheck TCP IP v6 Select TCP IP v4 and choose Properties Set the IP address subnet gateway and DNS server Open Disk manger start run and type diskmgmt msc Right click Disk 1 and click format Assign as E drive label as SQL data and close the disk manager Join the test com domain and reboot Log in as test administrator papo Installing SQL Server 2008 x64 edition on SQL 1 ma O 0 N oO oe wN PRPRPRPRPRPRPRPRPB WOON DUBWNRPRO 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Insert the DVD into the physical DVD drive Click Run SETUP EXE on the AutoPlay menu When the application prompts you to install the NET Framework click OK Select the Accept radio button and click Install When the installat
38. type and click Next 19 Enter the 16 IP addresses for each of the DX storage nodes and click OK 20 Enter the Primary DX CD publisher IP address and click OK 21 Test the Dell DX settings by clicking Test 22 Click OK to accept the Dell DX Settings 23 Leave the checkbox next to store data in compliance mode as unchecked and click Next 24 Runa connectivity test and click Next when successful 25 Do not enable Partition rollover and click Next 26 Select a retention period by selecting the radio button next to never and click Next 27 Leave the scan period at 60 minutes and click Next 28 Confirm the new partition creation by clicking Finish 29 Right click the vault store group Dell DX and click New vault store 30 Repeat steps 9 through 16 four times to create vault stores and partitions for the Dell DX on all five Enterprise Vault servers Configuring the archive Symantec Enterprise Vault setup volumes 1 Browse to Enterprise vault gt Directory onEV 1 gt EV 1 gt Targets gt File Servers gt file 1 Right click file 1 and select New volume Click Next when the new volume wizard begins Select the files share on file 1 by clicking the browse button Click the radio button for regular share and click OK Click the share named email and click Next Select the appropriate vault store See Figure 7 to select the correct store depending on the file server and storage platform and click Next
39. ustry regulations now enforce strict email storage and retention policies Here are just a few of them e U S Federal Rules of Civil Procedure FRCP Requires companies of all types and sizes to retrieve emails in a timely and accurate manner Additionally the U S District Court requires that retrieved emails be in native format with their metadata intact Source http www inboxer com downloads Whitepaper _FRCP pdf Sarbanes Oxley Act Requires public companies to retain records for 7 years and requires CEOs and CFOs to take individual responsibility for the accuracy of their company s financial disclosures Security Exchange Act Rule 17a 4 requires financial institutions to adhere to certain guidelines for retention accessibility and indexing To prove they comply with these regulations and avoid substantial fines and legal woes companies must archive email data in such a way that it is readily accessible and in the proper format Email archiving Storage performance of Dell DX Object Storage Platform vs a leading object storage platform MEETING THE EMAIL ARCHIVING CHALLENGE Given the sheer volume of electronic communication companies require an efficient storage platform for archiving the emails IMs file attachments and text messages employees generate each day Archiving these objects properly allows for fast accurate retrieval which is becoming necessary to comply with an increa
40. xt Accept the license terms and click Next Click Custom Click the Disk and click Drive options advanced Click New Apply Format and click Next After the installation completes click OK to set the Administrator password Enter the administrator password twice and click OK Connect the machine to the Internet and install all available Windows updates Restart as necessary Enable remote desktop access Change the hostname and reboot when prompted Install Broadcom Advanced Control suite Create a network team called data net Set up networking for the data network a Click Start Control Panel right click Network Connections and choose Open b Right click the VM traffic NIC and choose properties c Select TCP IP v4 and choose Properties d Set the IP address subnet gateway and DNS server Right click Intel PRO 1000 PT Port Server adaptor 1 and select Configure Click the teaming tab click Team this adapter with other adaptors and select New team Name the TEAM CAS net add Intel PRO 1000 PT Port Server adaptor 2 Select IEEE 802 3ad Dynamic Link Aggregation Click Finish Set up networking for the object storage network Click Start Control Panel right click Network Connections and choose Open Right click the VM traffic NIC and choose Properties Uncheck TCP IP v6 Select TCP IP v4 and choose Properties Set the IP address subnet gateway and DNS server Click OK pap
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