BES on an Exchange SAN
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I have a large enterprise SAN that hosts 3 MS Exchange 2K servers. I completed all of the design work for sizing/performance and it all went well. So, I know how many email users it can support based on the email users iops.
Problem is that now mangement is saying that there will be 3 BES servers attached to it (one BES per msx server). I need to find out how to predict the BES user impact on my Exchange servers/SAN. Does anyone have any hard data I could use for this? At the moment, it appears that I will be forced to build the SAN and then do sizing/performance testing on it before it goes into production. That is not the preferred method. I would rather be able to tell managment, that the SAN can host x number of users, instead of having to test it first, and then tell them the number after the testing is completed.
thanks,
Steve
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