One change, Our Dells are 6350's not 8650's. -----Original Message----- From: Pfefferkorn, Pete (PFEFFEPE) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 2:13 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Exchange 2,000 scalability question.
Well, First let me apologize for the vagueness of this question. Just starting to read up on Exchange 2000. I've been asked by management to spec out the possibility of deploying Exchange 2,000 to all users on our campus (40,000 users). I'm reading Tony Redmond's book on Exchange 2000 and it mentions on page 21 that on 5.5 maximum user community was in reality about 3,000 per server for a 8 way. I know that really depends on the server setup, user load, etc. Our Dell 8650's with 2-550mhz processors and 2 gig of memory is handling about 3,000 users per server with 20 meg quotas per mailbox. They are active accounts (light to medium), so the 3,000 seems to match up since our system CPU utilization averaging about 80-90% during peak times. On the same page it states that Exchange 2000 states about 10,000 for a single node cluster. I'm wondering if anyone had opinions on this issue. What is different about Exchange 2000 that allows for more users per system. Is this do to coding changes in the store.exe or is it based on multiple stores per server? Given we can get about 3,000 users per Exchange 5.5, I'm wondering what the actual limit would be for Exchange 2000 per server. Pete Pfefferkorn Senior Systems Engineer/Mail Administrator University of Cincinnati 51 Goodman Street Cincinnati, OH 45221 Phone - (513) 556-9076 Fax - (513) 556-2042 _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
