Probably 1/2 to 2/3's of the book is theory and WHY. OpsMgr is just a particular implementation of a monitoring and management solution.
Take a look at the "Performance Monitor Wizard" from microsoft.com/downloads. It will help you generate performance monitor logs for investigating Exchange performance in depth. While it isn't knowledgable about new counters in Exchange 2007, it will still key on the most important metrics for Exchange performance. I know I wrote an article about using PerfWiz at one time, but I can't lay my hands on it to point you do a web resource. But it's pretty self-explanatory. ________________________________________ From: Kurt Buff [kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 1:12 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange 2003 server sizing 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 ~ > > >
