Dell PowerVault DL2100 - Manual (Page 4)

Test Setup
The test setup details are summarized in the table below:
Backup
Solution
No. of
MD1000
Enclosures 2
Backup Type Clients 3,4,5
DL2000 – Powered
by Symantec
Backup Exec with
Performance
Optimized hardware
and 6 GbE ports 1
1
Standard
Software
Compression
Software
Encryption
6, 12 and
24 Microsoft
Exchange
2007 clients
with average
Information
Store size of
approximately
36 GB
6, 12 and 24
Microsoft SQL
2008 clients
with average
database
size of
approximately
36 GB
Note: The 6, 12
and 24 clients
were used
for 1, 2, and
5 enclosure
benchmarks
respectively.
2
5
DL2000 – Powered
by Symantec Backup
Exec with Value
Series hardware and
6 GbE ports 1
1
Standard
Software
Compression
Software
Encryption
2
5
DL2000 – Powered
by Symantec Backup
Exec with Value
Series hardware and
2 GbE ports 1
1
Standard
Software
Compression
Software
Encryption
2
5
1 The DL2000 NIC ports were set up in a Smart Load Balanced (SLB) team using the Broadcom Advanced Control Suite
(BACS) with receive and transmit buffer sizes set to 1024. TCP Offload capabilities are not available to a team with
heterogeneous network adapters. To enable TOE, configure the DL2000 with each GbE port assigned to a separate
subnet. The Dell PowerConnect 6248 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet switch was used to connect the DL2000 with the
client systems in a dedicated network environment.
2 Each MD1000 enclosure contained 15 1TB 7.2K SATA disk drives and disk groups were automatically configured via
the Symantec Backup Exec Storage Provisioning Option (SPO).
3 The clients ran on Windows Server 2008 64-bit Standard Edition. Synthetic database load for the backup system
clients was generated using the Microsoft Exchange Load Generation tool, version 08.02.0045.000 for Exchange
clients and the RedGate SQL Data Generator version 1.2 for SQL clients.
4 The size of the total backup set was sufficient to eliminate in-memory caching effects and maintain sustained
performance through a 10 minute measurement interval
5 Backups were performed in a homogenous application server environment, i.e. the environment consisted of only
Exchange Servers or only SQL Servers). The Exchange Information Stores and SQL databases were backed up in a static
environment, i.e. no transactional database activity was taking place during backup operations.