MS Exchange Server Jetstress 2010

Jetstress 2010 is an Exchange Server test, it simulate disk I/O load to verify the performance and stability of the disk subsystem. Jetstress testing should be performed prior to installing MS Exchange and putting the Exchange server in to production.

Supported OS: Windows 2000 SP4, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008,
Windows Server 2008 R2

Testing Environment:
MS Exchange 2010 Server
Windows Server 2008 R2

Jetstress instructions for testing data storage:

1. Configure the data storage sub system (iSCSI, FCoE, etc) to be used for MS Exchange database and logs.
Format the LUNs using NTFS (recommended 64KB allocation unit size).

2. Install MS .NET Framework
Server Manager -> Feature -> Add Feature
and click on the box “.NET Framework 3.5.1 Feature”
Follow the wizard; it will also install all the dependencies (IIS, WCF Activation, etc…)

3. Download Jetstress.msi (version 14.01.0225.017) from Microsoft.com and install it. Follow the setup wizard, select “Everyone” when you get to “Select Installation Folder” screens.

4. Copy the Jetstress required files from MS Exchange 2010 CD/DVD (or download the MS Exchange 2010 Trial from Microsoft.com) to the Jetstress folder: “C:\Program Files\Exchange Jetstress”

Required files:
ese.dll
eseperf.dll
eseperf.hxx
eseperf.ini
eseperf.xml

Location of the files from installation media:
ese.dll is in “\setup\serverroles\common”
eseperf.* are in “\setup\serverroles\common\perf\amd64″

5. Run Jetstress 2010
The first run will check the test system and have to be restarted (see Screen Shot below).
Close Jetstress and rerun it.

6. After restarting Jetstress, click on “Start new test”.

7. It will check the system again, “Checking Test System”, click Next.

8. Next screen “Open Configuration”, by default “Create a new test configuration” is selected, click Next.

9. The Next five screens I selected the default.

10. In the “Define Database configuration” Define the Number of databases, Number of copies per database, and their path. My data storage under test is X:\ drive.

11. Next Screen, Select Database Source, Create new… (default), Next.

12. Next Screen, Review and Execute.

For detail Instruction:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff459260.aspx