Exchange 2003 user number limitation

24 Mar 2006 7:55 AM

Raymond Chan

Hi,

Our company has a Exchange 2003 server which is going to support over 155
users. It's a low end server with P4 2.8MHz, 3G RAM and SCSI HDD.

Does anyone has an idea how many users a Exchange 2003 with such hardware
can support?

Any tool I can use to analysis its performance?

Many thanks for any help.

24 Mar 2006 9:28 AM

Mark Arnold [MVP]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:55:03 -0800, Raymond Chan <Raymond
C***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Our company has a Exchange 2003 server which is going to support over 155
>users. It's a low end server with P4 2.8MHz, 3G RAM and SCSI HDD.
>
>Does anyone has an idea how many users a Exchange 2003 with such hardware
>can support?
>
>Any tool I can use to analysis its performance?
>
>Many thanks for any help.

You can look at JetStress.
Why are you looking at running what will become a business critical
application on poxy hardware like that?
You are asking for a lot of pain.
IMHO it's going to be wiser either to outsource it or to pay the money
for decent hardware with inbuilt resilience.