Very similar to Honda's owner manual stating that I can safely change my oil once every year or 10,000 miles, I would imagine that RIM's hardware recommendations are a bit on the ever-appealing cost-effective track rather than based on results in a real-world environment (not saying they didn't test, but in a competitve, market-driven world, recommendations are not necessarily the best guidelines to go by).
So, our current environment is as follows:
BES:
- Intel Xeon 2.4GHz
- 2GB RAM
SQL:
- Intel Xeon 3.2GHz
- 2GB RAM
Recommendations (per RIM for 4.0):
- Dual Pentium 4 2.0GHz
- 1GB RAM
I'm trying to justify the purchase of two new servers for replacement of the current BES servers. I'm looking at getting dual Xeon 3.0GHz machines with 4GB of RAM each.
Anyhow, what do some of you have in your environments? We're looking at roughly 700 total users, hence my request to upgrade the hardware (amongst other reasons). Money isn't the issue of concern, really. Also, considering that BES 4.1 -is- more resource hungry than 4.0, I don't necessarily find it amusing that RIM would reference the 4.0 documentation for the 4.1 system recommendations.
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We only support about 60 users.. it's a bit overkill but we use our bberry server as a network monitor (solarwinds) and server status monitor (serversalive) too.
I have all this for 50 users - but my AVERAGE user gets about 300 emails a day (nature of our business) and our ERP system runs on our SQL box - so we had to make it a monster.
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