Written by one of the industry's leading experts on Exchange Server performance optimization and scalability, this title teaches system designers and administrators the strategies, Exchange features, tools, and best practices to build and manage high-performance systems. 100 illus.

Foreword

ix

Preface

xi

Acknowledgments

xiii

Exchange 2000 Architecture

1

(42)

Introduction

1

(3)

Benefits at a glance

4

(3)

RAMS

7

(11)

Performance improvements

18

(11)

Exchange 2000 core architecture

29

(1)

The STORE process

30

(11)

The prospect ahead

41

(2)

Exchange 2000 Scalability

43

(62)

Why would you want to scale?

43

(7)

Scalable Exchange 2000 architecture

50

(10)

IIS/Exchange store

60

(17)

Components that scale

77

(16)

Horizontal vs. vertical scalability

93

(12)

Exchange 2000 and Windows 2000

105

(72)

Exchange 2000 requirements

105

(6)

Windows 2000 server

111

(5)

Windows 2000 Data Center Edition

116

(26)

Certification process and support services

142

(5)

Beyond Windows 2000

147

(10)

64-bit Windows

157

(3)

The Virtual Snapshot Services (VSS)

160

(1)

Scaling the Active Directory

161

(14)

Summary

175

(2)

Technologies for Exchange 2000 Deployments

177

(78)

Introduction

177

(2)

System processing

179

(4)

Networking services

183

(2)

Scale out and scale up

185

(9)

Leveraging storage technologies

194

(19)

The value of RAID

213

(19)

Fundamentals of storage performance

232

(23)

Optimizing Exchange 2000

255

(68)

Introduction to Exchange 2000 optimization

255

(3)

System optimization for Exchange 2000

258

(12)

Memory optimization for Exchange 2000

270

(15)

Network optimization for Exchange 2000

285

(6)

Storage optimization for Exchange 2000

291

(28)

Mail transport optimization

319

(2)

In summary

321

(2)

Performance and Monitoring

323

(92)

The Challenge

323

(18)

Exchange 2000 workload simulation

341

(32)

Monitoring Exchange 2000 performance

373

(42)

Best Practices

415

(26)

Introduction

415

(1)

Configuration guidelines for Windows 2000

416

(8)

Configuration guidelines for Exchange 2000 servers

424

(12)

Sample scale-up and scale-out configurations

436

(5)

Index

441

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