Large Profile Performance Testing Hardware
Applies To: Forefront Identity Manager, Forefront Identity Manager 2010
The hardware used to test large FIM 2010 R2 installation environment is described in this section of the guide.
Hardware components | Servers hosting the FIM Portal and FIM Service | Servers hosting the FIM Service database and FIM Synchronization Service database |
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Processors |
One Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 (quad core) 2.4 gigahertz (GHz) |
Two Intel Xeon E5410 (quad core) 2.33 GHz |
Memory
|
4 gigabytes (GB) |
32 GB |
Physical disks
|
Single 136-GB hard drive |
Eight 136-GB hard drives. Configuration:
|
The performance of the disk subsystem was tested using SQLIO Disk Subsystem Benchmark Tool (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=195283) from the Microsoft Download Center. The results of these tests are provided in Large Profile FIM SQLIO Test Results. The information in Appendix A: FIM Disk Subsystem Performance Testing is provided to help you in performing your own disk subsystem tests.
Important
- The configuration of the server running Microsoft SQL ServerĀ® has a significant effect on your test results. Be sure to implement the best practices that are described in the following documents.
- Storage Top 10 Best Practices (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=183663)
- Optimizing tempdb Performance (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=188267)
- SQL Server Best Practices Article (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=188268)
- Storage Top 10 Best Practices (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=183663)
- Although the configurations in the previous table show RAID 0 (disk mirroring) configurations, this was done only to illustrate a configuration from a performance perspective. To protect data in a production network, consider a disk configuration that provides fault tolerance, such as hardware RAID 0+1 (striped mirrored disks).
See Also
Concepts
Appendix A: FIM Disk Subsystem Performance Testing
Large Profile FIM SQLIO Test Results
Performance Testing FIM Service
Performance Testing FIM Synchronization