Hello
I'm looking for some advice on using the Role Requirements Calculator to produce an Exchange 2013 design.
The requirements of my design are as follows : 6000 mailboxes , 4 db copies including active copy, 6 multirole exchange servers ,servers hosted on VMware using network attached storage. 1048mb is the initial mailbox size, max size is 5120mb,
I've downloaded the latest copy of the Exchange Server Role Requirements Calculator buth when selecting default settings for "max database size configuartion" and "automatically calculate number of unique datbases/dag" the results are as folows:
- 30 databases per server with a maximum number of users per database = 200
- 120 database copies over 6 servers
Is this normal ? I expected a smaller number of database along with a higher value of users per databases
I've found one article which suggests a value of 250-500 mailboxes per DB is a good guide to work to, would anyone like to comment on this?
thanks in advance