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Performance and Monitoring
6.1 The Challenge
Performance testing for a product such as Microsoft Exchange is focused on
two distinct evaluation criteria. One is to estimate the capacity of a given
server, storage subsystem, and overall combination of hardware and soft-
ware to handle a certain workload with a satisfactory response time. The
other is to evaluate the features of the product being tested that you believe
your environment will exercise most and to determine what the benchmark
or load simulation results reveal about those features, how the proposed
solution reacts to the stress testing, and how it can evolve in the future. This
evolution ...