Outlook Web App
Outlook
EAS
EAC
PowerShell
POP/IMAP
SMTP
SIP
Load Balancer
Redirect
IIS
Client
Access
POP,
IMAP
HTTP Proxy
SMTP
SMTP
POP, IMAP
HTTP
UM
IIS
RpcProxy
RPS
RPC CA
OWA, EAS, EWS, ECP,
OAB
POP
IMAP
Transport
Mailbox
MDB
MailQ
UM
SIP + RTP
A Single Common Namespace Example
Geographical DNS Solution
Sue
DNS Resolution
Round-Robin between # of VIPs
VIP #1
DAG
Sue
mail.contoso.com
(somewhere in NA)
DNS Resolution via Geo-DNS
Round-Robin between # of VIPs
VIP #2
VIP #3
DAG
(traveling
in APAC)
VIP #4
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HTTP
HTTP
IIS
IIS
CAS
HTTP
Protocol Head
DB
Cross-Site Proxy Request
HTTP Proxy
CAS
HTTP
Protocol Head
Site Boundary
Layer 4 LB
Site Boundary
Layer 4 LB
HTTP Proxy
DB
MBX
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HTTP
Local Proxy Request
IIS
HTTP Proxy
CAS
Protocol Head
DB
MBX
OWA Cross-Site Redirect Request
MBX
Exchange 2010
Legacy Coexistence
HTTP
Layer 4 LB
Layer 7 LB
HTTP Proxy
Exchange 2010 CAS
CAS 2013
RPC
Store
Protocol Head
DB
DB
MBX
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MBX
2013
Site Boundary
IIS
Protocol
Head
OWA
Cross-Site
Redirect
Request
Protocol
Head
E2010 CAS
RPC
Store
DB
MBX
Cross-Site
Proxy Request
Legacy Coexistence
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Protocol
E2007 user accessing E2010
namespace
E2007 user accessing E2013
namespace
E2010 user accessing E2013 namespace
Requires
Legacy Namespace
Legacy Namespace
No additional namespaces
OWA
• Same AD site: silent or SSO FBA redirect
• Externally facing AD site: manual or
silent/SSO cross-site redirect
• Internally facing AD site: proxy
Silent redirect in CU2+ to CAS 2007
externally facing URL in-site or cross-site
• Proxy to CAS 2010
• Cross-site silent redirect in CU2+, which may redirect to CAS
2010 or CAS 2013
Exchange
ActiveSync
• EAS v12.1+ : Autodiscover & redirect
• Older EAS devices: proxy
Proxy to MBX 2013
Proxy to CAS 2010
Outlook Anywhere
Direct CAS 2010 support
Proxy to CAS 2007
Proxy to CAS 2010
Autodiscover
Exchange 2010 answers Autodiscover
query for 2007 User
Exchange 2013 answers Autodiscover query
for 2007 User
Proxy to CAS 2010
EWS
Uses Autodiscover to find CAS 2007 EWS
External URL
Uses Autodiscover to find CAS 2007 EWS
External URL
Proxy to CAS 2010
POP/IMAP
Proxy
Proxy to CAS 2007
Proxy to CAS 2010
OAB
Direct CAS 2010 support
Proxy to CAS 2007
Proxy to CAS 2010
RPS
n/a
n/a
Proxy to CAS 2010
ECP
n/a
n/a
• Proxy to CAS 2010
• Cross-site redirect, which may redirect to CAS 2010 or CAS
2013
What you need to control connectivity flow
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17
External SMTP
External SMTP
Front-End Transport Pipeline
SMTP Receive
SMTP Send
Protocol
Agents
Hub Selector
SMTP from MBX 2013
18
SMTP to MBX 2013
19
1.
FET accepts initial SMTP conversation
if source passes connection filtering
2.
FET determines the recipient
type/location via hub selector
3.
Proxies the message to the
appropriate destination
20
1.
MBX 2013 determines if mail recipient
is a remote destination and selects a
FET within local site if the
FrontEndProxyEnabled parameter on
Send Connector is set to $true
2.
MBX 2013 connects to FET and
initiates SMTP conversation
3.
FET proxies outbound connection to
appropriate destination
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100 GB System Memory
Per DB cache usage in Megabytes
10 Active DBs
0 Passive DBs
10 Max Allowed Active DBs
Other
50GB
2560
2560
2560
Search
Foundations
Cache ~25GB
ESE Cache
~25GB
2560
2560
2560
2560
30
2560
2560
2560
100 GB System Memory
Other
50GB
Per DB cache usage in Megabytes
5 Active DBs
5 Passive DBs
10 Max Allowed Active DBs
DB1, 2560
DB2, 2560
Search
Foundations
Cache ~25GB
Remaining Pool, 14336
DB3, 2560
DB4, 2560
ESE Cache
~25GB
DB5, 2560
DB6, 512
DB10, 512
DB9, 512
DB8, 512 DB7, 512
100 GB System Memory
Per DB cache usage in Megabytes
5 Active DBs
5 Passive DBs
5 Max Active DBs Allowed
Other
50GB
853
853
853
853
4267
853
Search
Foundations
Cache ~25GB
4267
4267
ESE Cache
~25GB
4267
4267
Exchange 5.5
9gb, 18gb
10k-15k RPM
Exchange 2000
36gb
10k-15k RPM
Exchange 2003
72-146gb
10k-15k RPM
Exchange 2007
300-600gb
7200 RPM
Exchange 2010
2TB
7200 RPM
Exchange 2013
4-8TB
7200 RPM
25mb MBX
100mb MBX
250mb MBX
2GB MBX
10GB MBX
25GB MBX
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4
0.70
3.99
3.75
3.5
0.60
3.16
3.09
3
0.50
2.5
0.40
18 | 41% Average RPC
Latency reduction
2.35
0.65
2
1.5
0.30
1
0.20
0.74
0.5
0.16
0.10
0
0.00
DB IOPS/MAILBOX
37
E14SP1
E15 Build 466
RPC AVERAGE
LATENCY
Online | Cached Modes
48 | 76% IOPS reduction
(disk IOPS capacity not
expected to change)
MCYCLES PER
RPC PACKET
E14SP1
STORE MEMORY
PER MAILBOX
(MB)
E15 Build 466
17 | 34% increase in CPU
per RPC processed (offset
by additional CPU cores)
~4X increase in store
memory overhead (~4GB
vs. ~1GB not including
ESE cache)
DB IOPS/Mailbox
~95.5%
Reduction!
1
0.8
Exchange 2003
0.6
Exchange 2007
Exchange 2010
0.4
Exchange 2013
0.2
0
Exchange 2003
Exchange 2007
Exchange 2010
Exchange 2013
1 Day
150
11 MB
1 Month
3300
242 MB
1 Year
39000
2.8 GB
2 Years
78000
5.6 GB
4 Years
156000
11.2 GB
Public
Private
logon
logon
Public
logon
CAS2013
Hierarchy
Mailbox
MBX
2013
Content
Mailbox
MBX
2013
MBX
2013
Incoming Documents
Incoming Queries
CTS
Filter
Word
Break
“CTS Flow”
IMS
Content
XForm
MARS
Writer
Content Transformation System
Content
XForm
Query
Parse
“IMS Flow”
Core
Catalog
Integration Management Service
Transport
Transport
CTS
Mailbox
Store
ExSearch
CTS
Index
Node
Mailbox
Passive
DB
Idx
Log
DB
Idx
Log
Read Content
SMTP
SMTP
Transport Pipeline
SMTP Receive
Delivery Queue
Protocol
Agents
SMTP Send
Categorizer
Pickup/Replay
Submission
Queue
Routing
Agents
Delivery Agents for
other protocols
Delivery Queue
SMTP from MBX Transport Delivery
SMTP to MBX Transport Submission
SMTP from Transport Service
SMTP to Transport Service
Mailbox Transport Pipeline
SMTP Receive
SMTP Send
Hub Selector (Router)
Store Driver Deliver
MBX Deliver
Agents
Store Driver Submit
MBX
Assistants
Mailbox Transport Delivery
MBX Submit
Agents
Mailbox Transport Submission
MAPI
MAPI
Mailbox Store
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L4 Load Balancer
time
CAS2
CAS2
CAS1
Managed Availability = Monitoring + HA
“Stuff breaks, but the Experience does not”
DAG
MBX1
DB1
DB1
OWA
DB2
MBX2
DB1
OWA
DB2
MBX3
DB1
OWA
DB2
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60
61
62
Building Blocks
Flexible Scalable
Simpler