Large Profile Performance Testing Hardware

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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

Processors

One Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 (quad core) 2.4 gigahertz (GHz)

Two Intel Xeon E5410 (quad core) 2.33 GHz

Memory

  • DDR2

  • 667

  • ECC

  • SDRAM

4 gigabytes (GB)

32 GB

Physical disks

  • Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)

  • 10,000 RPMs

  • 6 GB/sec throughput

  • 2.99 ms latency

  • Track-to-track read speed of .2 ms and write speed of .4 ms

  • Average read .8 ms and write speed 4.3 ms

  • Maximum read speed of 8.0 ms and write speed of 9.0 ms

Single 136-GB hard drive

Eight 136-GB hard drives. Configuration:

  • C: Single hard drive for operating system and applications

  • D: Single hard drive for Structured Query Language (SQL) logs (.ldf file type)

  • F: Six drives in disk stripe (RAID 0) for SQL data files (.mdf file type)

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 Server® has a significant effect on your test results. Be sure to implement the best practices that are described in the following documents.

  • 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