Using Microsoft Exchange Server Load Simulator 2000
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Published: December 13, 2002
By Patricia Anderson, Dale Koetke
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Microsoft Exchange Server Load Simulator2000 (LoadSim2000) is a benchmarking tool designed to test how a server responds to mail load. LoadSim2000 allows you to simulate the delivery of multiple MAPI client messaging requests to an Exchange2000 server. To simulate the delivery of these messaging requests, you run LoadSim tests on client computers. These tests send multiple messaging requests to the Exchange server, thereby causing a mail load.
After the tests are complete, you can use the results to:
Calculate the clients response time when the server is experiencing mail loads
Calculate the realistic number of users per server
Identify bottlenecks on the server
**Important:**Microsoft Load Simulator2000 is strictly a benchmarking tool that tests the effect of an isolated client load on a server. LoadSim2000 is not intended to simulate the load in a real production environment. When planning your Exchange deployment, do not use these tests to simulate actual user loads on your production server.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Setup
Chapter 2: Configuring LoadSim2000 on a Client Computer
Chapter 3: Configuring Storage Groups and Databases on Your Exchange Server
Chapter 4: Creating and Running the LoadSim Test on a Client Computer
Chapter 5: Repeating the Test
Chapter 6: Understanding LoadSim2000 Tasks
Chapter 7: Understanding LoadSim2000 Log Files
Chapter 8: Consolidating System Monitor (Perfmon) Data
Chapter 9: Using System Monitor Data
Chapter 10: Best Practices for Using LoadSim
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