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<DIV>Do you have a link you could provide that has the Microsoft (Ex2K) specifications?</DIV>
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<DIV>>>> "Rasim Duric" <rduric@uoguelph.ca> 8/26/2008 12:04 PM >>><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">My Unity server is a Platform Overlay 4 (MCS7855I) server and as I remember it could support up to 7,500 offbox vm subscribers with 72 ports. Our offbox message stores (exchange 2000 servers) are MCS7845H (2 CPU 2.4 GHZ, 4GB, 4x72GB disks) and I have 2 of these (i.e. around 4,000 subscribers on one Unity server and 2 Exchange servers).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"> Per Microsoft (Ex2K) specification you could have around 1,500 email users on one exchange server. Since Voicemail is not as heavy as an email system it is safe to assume this kind of server could support around 2,000 vm subscribers.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">That is at least how we designed our VM infrastructure a few years ago and it has been working OK.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Rasim Duric<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Network Analyst (CCS)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">University of Guelph<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Guelph, N1G 2W1, ON<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">519-824-4120x53146<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">rduric@uoguelph.ca<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> Jason Aarons (US) [mailto:jason.aarons@us.didata.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> August-26-08 11:24 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Rasim Duric; STEVEN CASPER; cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [cisco-voip] Unity and Exchange<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">For that model server MCS-7835-H1 the spec sheet list 2000 mailboxes with 42 ports. Not sure if cisco licensing knows the server spec and will issue licenses. I seem to recall cisco doesn’t have a way to verify hardware with licenses. Eg you can put 120 ports on a 7825 overlay 1 and they don’t know you got a 7825 when you should have a overlay 3, etc.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Recall the platform overlay 1, 2, 3 setups for Unity in the installation guide.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Rasim Duric<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, August 26, 2008 9:42 AM<BR><B>To:</B> 'STEVEN CASPER'; cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [cisco-voip] Unity and Exchange<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Our Exchange offbox servers are the Cisco MCS7845H-EVV1 (HP DL380-G3 ) machines and we also have about 2000 voice mail users per each server. We have 2 standalone DC/GC servers though. Since cpu utilization is low on our G3 servers I would say a DL380-G4 should support up to 3000 voice mail only subscribers without issues.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">We also keep deleted messages for 5 days and do the message store defragmentation once every year which helps in performance and increase a free disk space.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Rasim Duric<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Network Analyst (CCS)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">University of Guelph<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Guelph, N1G 2W1, ON<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">519-824-4120x53146<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">rduric@uoguelph.ca<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] <B>On Behalf Of </B>STEVEN CASPER<BR><B>Sent:</B> August-26-08 9:01 AM<BR><B>To:</B> cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> [cisco-voip] Unity and Exchange<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">Hello All,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">Running Unity 4.05 with Failover, Exchange 2000 offbox, Voice Mail only config. My Exchange boxes are DL380 G4's with dual cpu with a lot of disk space left. Wondering how many exchange mailboxes these servers will support before I need to add new Exchange servers. I currently have about 2000 users on each server and my exchange data base runs about 8 - 9 gb on each server. These servers also act as the DC/GC's for the Unity standalone AD domain. I am having no issues but need to plan for the future. I expect to be upgrading to Unity 7 next year.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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