RE: Exchange 2010 Design Questions

2012-09-06 Thread Sobey, Richard A
Pretty sure it's that the various sizing calculators from Microsoft always base figures on physical/actual number of cores. When you introduce HT, you're not really giving yourself double the number of CPUs in raw performance, so any planning based on the calculators goes out the window. We

RE: Exchange 2010 Design Questions

2012-09-06 Thread Michael B. Smith
performance. From: Steve Goodman [mailto:st...@stevieg.org] Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 6:20 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 Design Questions I agree with Richard - the capacity planning challenge is that the number of cores from the calculator doesn't differentiate between

Re: Exchange 2010 Design Questions

2012-09-06 Thread Sean Martin
Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Exchange 2010 Design Questions ** ** I agree with Richard – the “capacity planning challenge” is that the number of cores from the calculator doesn’t differentiate between HT cores and normal cores. So your design is going to be for actual cores

Re: Exchange 2010 Design Questions

2012-09-06 Thread Sean Martin
Thanks for the feedback. We'resupporting just over 2000 mailboxes in this environment so we felt memory configurations were sufficient. - Sean On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:14 PM, pramatow...@mediageneral.com wrote: We have 6500 mbx, ~2G worth in them, 6 servers in two sites, 3 active DB's on each

Re: Exchange 2010 Design Questions

2012-09-06 Thread PRamatowski
Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 11:18 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: Exchange 2010 Design Questions Thanks for the feedback. We'resupporting just over 2000 mailboxes in this environment so we felt

Re: Exchange 2010 Design Questions

2012-09-05 Thread PRamatowski
We have 6500 mbx, ~2G worth in them, 6 servers in two sites, 3 active DB's on each server, each DB had a copy local and a copy in the cross-site (hope that makes sense). Avg mbx 250mb, range from a couple mb to 10G. The smaller mbx's are throwaways, the larger are generic shared mbx's.

Re: Exchange 2010 Design Questions

2012-09-05 Thread PRamatowski
I meant ~2Tb data in there (first line). Blackberry From: Ramatowski, Paul M. Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 09:14 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: Exchange 2010 Design Questions We have 6500 mbx, ~2G worth in them, 6 servers in two sites