Thanks for the real-world info. Do you know your Perfmon-reported Single Instance Ratio for each DB before the move? That would be a fun set of statistics.
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:07 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Just thought I would let you know the results of the move. We were a bit > concerned about the loss of SIS, but we had 4 Databases of varying sizes > across the org and total DB size including STM files was 171 GB on Exchange > 2003 SP2, after moving all mailboxes the mailbox store with log files on the > Exchange 2010 is 178 GB. > > > > I would suspect that in a single DB environment a loss of SIS would have a > much larger impact on the actual DB size. A number of you asked about this > directly, so I thought I would respond publicly. > > > > On our ESXi server running 16GB ran and allocated 2 processors to the task > we are hardly denting the box other than when we were doing mailbox > transfers. We are also running Ninja and BES 5 (latest updates) > > > > I might increase the memory on the box but I want to run some baselines to > see if increasing the memory has any dramatic benefit. > > > > Thanks everyone for your help, I learned a ton and after reviewing my notes > and making a more detailed migration plan we are going to begin migrating a > lot of clients with old 2003 boxes in need of migration. > > > > Greg Sweers >
