The server hardware consisted of a Dell PowerEdge 2400 Small Business Server, configured as follows.
| Component | Configuration |
| Processor | Dual Intel 667MHz/133MHz Pentium III processors, restricted to either a
single processor configuration or dual processor configuration. |
| Drives | Three 9GB 10KB rpm SCSI-3 disks configured in RAID 5 (strip set with
parity) for application, data, and log files.
One 9GB 10k rpm SCSI-3 disk configured in RAID 0 for the operation system and page file. |
| Network | One Intel Pro/100+ NIC (embedded) |
| Memory | 1GB of 133MHz SDRAM, restricted to 256MB, 384MB, 512MB, or 1GB
tests. |
| COM Devices | 4 Port NetAccess Remote Access Service (RAS) Card |
| Software | Small Business Server 2000 Beta 1 |
The load simulation tests were run on the server by using three different configurations: 256MB, 512MB, and 1GB of RAM. The processor and memory configurations were changed in the Windows 2000 Server BOOT.INI file by using the NUMPROC and MAXMEM switches, for example:
