Exchange Server Performance Tuning – Optimizing Database Availability Groups (DAGs)

Exchange Server 2010 mailbox servers offer a new function known as Database Availability Groups (DAG). Under a  DAG configuration, the mailbox data is replicated across several hosts.  The result of this is that in Exchange Server 2010 it is now less important to build in system level redundancy. If a DAG node fails, as opposed to  rebuilding it, we can [...]

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Exchange Server Performance Tuning – Optimizing MailBox Servers

MailBox Server Performance and System Memory The Mailbox server role will likely have the biggest impact on performance of all the servers in Exchange Server 2010. Mailbox servers were  traditionally very dependent on the disk subsystem for their performance. In Exchange Server 2010, however, this has changed somewhat and the disk behavior is very related to the [...]

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