We are looking at possibly migrating our Student Mail System over to Exchange 2007. On our current Exchange 2003 deployment for faculty/staff we currently have 9,000 user (medium usage) on 4 backend servers with 200 meg quotas and 14 stores using ½ terabyte space. These systems are dell's and have 2-2.8 ghz systems with 4 gig and average about 15% cpu utilization with about 2,000 users per system.
Our student system houses about 70,000 accounts with 20,000 daily unique logins WEB with 50 meg quotas using ¾ of a terabyte running on a Open BSD based appliance mail system. If these users are all light users and we limit them to Web access only and we have SAN based storage, I'm wondering how many backend server we will require. If I get some really big servers such as Dell 6805's with Quad 3.4 mhz, 32 gig memory connected to our SAN any guesstimates as to how many dedicated back ends we will required? I've heard rumors that 2007 scales better than 2003. I know this is really a vague questions and I looked at the enclosed article, but I'm looking for some real life experience with 2007 and sizing. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998874.aspx Pete Pfefferkorn University of Cincinnati Technology Services Senior Analyst/Messaging Administrator (513) 556-9076 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
