Yeah, but how useful is the book without OpsMgr? If it costs, our company isn't going to get it.
I'm moderately familiar with perfmon, though - at least, I can follow the bouncing ball real well. Kurt On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 18:10, Michael B. Smith<mich...@owa.smithcons.com> wrote: > I wouldn't hesitate to put 4,000 users on a single BE server (clustered) and > two FE servers (load-balanced). > > That being said - you are asking the wrong questions, in my opinion. You need > to determine what your performance issue is RIGHT NOW. perfmon is your > friend. So is my book. :-) > > Regards, > Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP > My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael > Monitoring Exchange w/OpsMgr now available http://snurl.com/45ppf > ______________________________________ > From: Ellis, John P. [johnel...@wirral.gov.uk] > Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 10:02 AM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Exchange 2003 server sizing > > We have Exchange 2003 in place. Comprising of 4 node cluster with 3 > active servers. These servers are connected to a Sun SAN for back end > storage. > We have around 4000 users. Each server has 3 or 4 stores. We also run > OWA internally and externally > > What im after is a whitepaper/guide that defines how many users we > should have per server, how many OWA connections etc that we should have > before we consider the servers over worked. > Is there such a guide? > > Im aiming to try and resolve/reduce the number of calls we get saying > email is running slow or Ive the popup box saying "trying to retrieve > data from server xxx" message > > Any pointers to a guide would be good. > > Cheers > John > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > John Ellis Tel (0151) 666 3208 > Senior IT Officer Fax (0151) 666 3049 > Wirral IT Services > johnel...@wirral.gov.uk > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ********************************************************************** > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they > are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify > the system manager. > > This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by > MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. > > www.clearswift.com > ********************************************************************** > > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > > >
