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Recommended sizes for Exchange 2007 mailbox stores
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We are currently using Exchange 2003 SP2 - we have a couple of mailbox servers, each with 4 Storage groups each. Each Storage Group has 4 Mailbox stores. Therefore we have a total of 32 Mailbox stores.
With Exchange 2007, we are looking into one Mailbox store per Storage Group. As such, we'll need to increase the number of Storage Groups (we are looking at about 60 altogether).
Since we are almost doubling the amount of Mailbox stores, we want to ensure we keep users of the same department on the same store to take advantage of Single Instance Storage.
We are, however, planning on giving all mailboxes a 1GB limit as opposed to 100MB which it is currently.
Are there any recommended numbers of max users/sizes of databases/storage group log locations for Exchange 2007?
We are currently using Exchange 2003 SP2 - we have a couple of mailbox servers, each with 4 Storage groups each. Each Storage Group has 4 Mailbox stores. Therefore we have a total of 32 Mailbox stores.
With Exchange 2007, we are looking into one Mailbox store per Storage Group. As such, we'll need to increase the number of Storage Groups (we are looking at about 60 altogether).
Since we are almost doubling the amount of Mailbox stores, we want to ensure we keep users of the same department on the same store to take advantage of Single Instance Storage.
We are, however, planning on giving all mailboxes a 1GB limit as opposed to 100MB which it is currently.
Are there any recommended numbers of max users/sizes of databases/storage group log locations for Exchange 2007?
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Hi Guys
Thanks for all the articles.
I have a couple of queries;
a) Recommended database size limit is 100 GB in case you are not use any kind of continuous replication & 200 GB if you are using LCR/CCR.
Is SCC (which we will be using) considered continous or non-continous?
b) If we have a mailbox quota of 1GB and have 100 users, will the max DB size be 100GB, or do we need to factor in white space etc? Is there a method to calculate this?
I have seen this method;
Maximum database size should always be calculated as follows: Number of mailboxes × Maximum mailbox size = Database size
But also this;
Mailbox Size = Mailbox Quota + White Space + (Weekly Incoming Mail × 2)
Can anyone help me?
Much appreciated.
Thanks for all the articles.
I have a couple of queries;
a) Recommended database size limit is 100 GB in case you are not use any kind of continuous replication & 200 GB if you are using LCR/CCR.
Is SCC (which we will be using) considered continous or non-continous?
b) If we have a mailbox quota of 1GB and have 100 users, will the max DB size be 100GB, or do we need to factor in white space etc? Is there a method to calculate this?
I have seen this method;
Maximum database size should always be calculated as follows: Number of mailboxes × Maximum mailbox size = Database size
But also this;
Mailbox Size = Mailbox Quota + White Space + (Weekly Incoming Mail × 2)
Can anyone help me?
Much appreciated.
On the MS Exchange Team blog they have a spreadsheet which can calculate your storage requirements for you. I suggest that you start with that.
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