Monitoring and Tuning Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Performance

Jeff Mealiffe

Principal Program Manager

Microsoft – Office 365

http://aka.ms/E2013Sizing-MEC

http://aka.ms/E2013Sizing

http://aka.ms/E2013Calc

http://aka.ms/preferred

\Memory\% Committed Bytes In Use < 80

\Memory\Available Mbytes > 5% of RAM

http://aka.ms/e2013ssloffload

\MSExchange ADAccess Domain Controllers(*)\LDAP Search Time

\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time

http://aka.ms/maxconcurrentapi

\Netlogon\Semaphore Waiters

\Netlogon\Semaphore Holders

\Netlogon\Semaphore Acquires

\Netlogon\Semaphore Timeouts

\Netlogon\Average Semaphore Hold Time

Achieving balance for deployment health Optimal hardware utilization

Better response to failures

More predictable user experience

\Web Service(Default Web Site)\Current Connections

\MSExchange Active Manager(_total)\Database Mounted

http://aka.ms/ExOnlineLimits

Prioritize service availability

\Processor(_Total)\% Privileged Time

\Processor(_Total)\% User Time

\Process(*)\% Privileged Time

\MSExchange WorkloadManagement Workloads(*)\ActiveTasks

\MSExchange WorkloadManagement Workloads(*)\CompletedTasks

\MSExchange WorkloadManagement Workloads(*)\QueuedTasks

\.NET CLR Memory(*)\% Time in GC < 10

\Memory\% Committed Bytes In Use < 80

\Memory\Available Mbytes > 5% of RAM

\.NET CLR Memory(*)\# Bytes in all Heaps

\Process(*)\Private Bytes

\Process(*)\Working Set

\MSExchange Database ==> Instances(*)\I/O Database Reads (Attached) Average Latency < 20ms

\MSExchange Database ==> Instances(*)\I/O Database Writes (Attached) Average Latency < 50ms

\MSExchange Database ==> Instances(*)\I/O Log Writes Average Latency < 10ms

\MSExchange Database ==> Instances(*)\I/O Database Reads (Recovery) Average Latency < 200ms

\MSExchange Database ==> Instances(*)\I/O Database Writes (Recovery) Average Latency < read latency for same

instance as above

\MSExchange Database ==> Instances(*)\I/O Database Reads (Attached)/sec

\MSExchange Database ==> Instances(*)\I/O Database Writes (Attached)/sec

\MSExchange Database ==> Instances(*)\I/O Log Writes/sec

http://aka.ms/procmon

\MSExchangeIS Store(*)\RPC Average Latency < 100ms

\MSExchangeIS Client Type(*)\RPC Average Latency < 100ms

\MSExchangeIS Store(*)\RPC Operations/sec

\MSExchangeIS Client Type(*)\RPC Operations/sec

MaxSize="5120"

http://aka.ms/relog

http://aka.ms/UNC379

Session Evaluation