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As promised, I'm adding the Jetstress test here to compare ReFS and NTFS. I tested once with a database and logs on one volume and 4 databases with separate log and database volumes (8 volumes). All volumes of the Windows VM were stored on the same XtremIO LUN. There were no other changes. ... Read more
I have already carried out a speed comparison between ReFS and NTFS. Exchange 2016: Testing storage performance with Jetstress (comparing NTFS to ReFS) Part 1 Exchange 2016: Testing storage performance with Jetstress (comparing NTFS to ReFS) Part 2 Exchange 2016: Testing storage performance with Jetstress (comparing NTFS to ReFS) Part 3 I have performed the test ... Read more
In part 1 and part 2 of this article series it became clear that the choice of file system can have an impact on performance. In the last test, I was able to improve performance with a little fine-tuning: The fine-tuning at this point related to the ESX configuration (HBA settings etc.), the ReFS and NTFS volumes have ... Read more
In the first part of this series of articles, I had already started to analyze the difference between ReFS and NTFS in connection with Exchange 2016. However, the test environment was not yet optimized, but now it looks a little different. As a reminder: a VM on vSphere 5.5, Windows Server 2012 R2, 8 vCPUs (Xeon E5-2690v3), 32 GB ... Read more
Jetstress is excellent for testing the storage for Exchange. I used it to see how NTFS and ReFS perform in terms of speed. There is no official version of Jetstress for Exchange 2016 yet, but the Jetstress version for Exchange 2013 also works with Exchange 2016. You can download Jetstress here. Read more
