Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 Scalability with SP1 and SP2

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Index

See also Transaction log

Log threads waiting counter, 522

Log writes/sec counter, 522

LUNs, 11, 93, 94, 235

Fibre Channel, 286

production server, 242

SAN-based, 239

SCSI, 284

Mailboxes

archiving solutions, 73

large, burden, 73

users’, 214

Mailbox servers, 55, 72–75

configuration, 72

critical folders, 73

database file placement for, 396–400

defined, 396, 439

switching, 400–401

See also Servers

Mailbox store, creating, 91

Mail drop, 66

Mail transport

default operation, 420

optimization, 420–22

Maintenance

database, 114–18

defragmentation, 115

interval schedule, 115

interval setting in policy, 117

online, 403–5

optimization, 402–20

Majority node set, 164, 165

Manageability, 12–23, 58, 220

MAPI

clients, 26, 28, 71

hierarchy, 71

implementation, 52

latency, 507

Messaging Benchmark 3 (MMB3), 429–30

properties, 24, 26

Remote Procedure Call (RPC) interface, 24

Master boot record (MBR), 385

M:\ drive properties, 77

Mean time between failure (MTBF), 11

Mean time to repair (MTTR), 110

Memory

chunks, 372

consumption, 356

requirements, 356–57

sizing, 542–43

utilization, 514–15

Memory mapped I/O (MMIO), 367–68

Memory optimization, 331, 355–73

physical memory utilization, 356–57

virtual memory fragmentation and, 370–

72

virtual memory utilization, 357–70

See also Optimization

Message opens/sec counter, 521

Messages received/sec counter, 522

Message throughput

scalability, 107–8

SMTP, 108

Message transfer agent (MTA), 172, 173

Messaging database (MDB), 94

Microsoft Clustering Services (MSCS), 239

Microsoft Commercial Internet Services

(MCIS), 1, 76

Microsoft Exchange Performance

Troubleshooting Analyzer, 482–83

Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS),

134

Microsoft Knowledge Base, 365

Microsoft Management Console (MMC)

snap-in, 16–17

Taskpad, 17

tool customization, 17

Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF),

215