Design and Manage an

Exchange Infrastructure: Administer Exchange Workload

Management

Administer Exchange Workload Management

This objective may include but is not limited to:

– Configure user workload policies

– Configure system workload policies

– Monitor system workload events

– Monitor user workload events

•Company: ExchangExchange

•Problem: – As a design and deployment

consultancy we need to be on top of all the latest features and tools in Exchange 2013, including Exchange Workload Management

•Goal: – To review the new EWM features in

the event we ever need to utilize them

Scenario: Exchange Design and Deployment Firm

Helps optimize resource utilization (for both users and the system)

EWM does this using high and low priority processes and is able to adjust more resources toward higher priority processes when necessary

Monitors key resources like the CPU, database RPC latency, replication health, etc…

Based on what the monitoring reports back it can manage the workload without degrading the end-user experience

Exchange Workload Management

What is an Exchange workload?

– Feature

– Protocol

– Service

Every workload consume resources (CPU, AD requests, etc)

Examples: OWA, ActiveSync, a mailbox migration, mailbox assistants, etc…

You can monitor the health of resources or control (throttle) how end-users use resources to manage workloads personally

EWM Breakdown

Peaks and Valleys

When resource health degrades workloads connected to it dynamically throttle (aka shaving the peaks) and when resources are healthy they can speed up (aka fill the valleys)

Workloads are assigned classifications: – Urgent

– Customer Expectation

– Internal Maintenance

– Discretionary

Policies determine if the resource is underloaded, overloaded or critical

•Get-ServerHealth returns health information about the server you run it on or the server you specify

– Get-ServerHealth –Identity Server01

•The cmdlet returns an alert value with values that

are the following: – Degraded

– Unhealthy

– Repairing

– Disabled

– Unavailable

– UnInitialized

Get-ServerHealth

•Get-ServerHealth returns health information about the server you run it on or the server you specify

– Get-HealthReport -RollupGroup

•The cmdlet returns an alert value with values that

are the following: – Online

– Partially Online

– Offline

– Sidelined

– Functional

– Unavailable

Get-HealthReport

•For servers you can change the Workload Management policy settings

– New-ResourcePolicy

– New-WorkloadManagementPolicy

– New-WorkloadPolicy (which you assign to the management policy)

– Set-ExchangeServer -WorkloadManagementPolicy

•For users you can control the user throttling settings

– New-ThrottlingPolicy

– Set-ThrottlingPolicyAssociation

Changing Exchange Workload Management

As a consulting firm we have reviewed the Exchange Management Workload features and it’s clear that this is not something we’ll need to use often

We are aware of its existence and know how to manipulate it should we need to

Scenario: ExchangExchange

Additional Research

•Exchange Workload Management

• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj150503.aspx

•Workload Management Reference

• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj150485(v=exchg.15

•Server Health, Monitoring, and Performance Cmdlets

• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj150524(v=exchg.150).aspx