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in reality (you hardly run any backup during production hours, unless you
have a consolidated Exchange deployment that spans multiple time zones),
but it can give a worst-case scenario and possibly outline hotspots anywhere
between the servers and the back-end disks.
6.2.3 Other Tools
Exchange Stress and Performance (ESP, or Medusa)
ESP uses scripts to generate activity to an Internet protocol server, and
some scripts have been defined to “mimic” the Exchange 2003 OWA or
ActiveSync clients. The ESP 2003 kit that can be obtained from Microsoft
(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=27881) contains sample scripts, ...