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March 5th, 2008 12:00

Installation Question - Storage Requirements

I have searched the site and forums for information and have come up empty handed. I'm looking for a formula for determining our storage requirements for our impelementation of EmailXtender. Can anyone point me in the right direction or give me a rule of thumb to go by?

We have approximately 250 mailboxes on exchange 2003. We are looking to acheive 7 years of archival of sent and received emails.

Thanks in advance...
  • amediratta

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    Posted March 5th, 2008 23:00

    There are good EX sizing tools available from EMC. I don't know if they are on Powerlink but you can refer to your Sales Rep for them.

    I think in Inst/Admin guide also, they have given a formula to calculate the volume sizes.

    Apart from the no. of mailboxes, you would need to know the average size of mails and no. of days per week etc.
  • RKatwal

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    Posted March 6th, 2008 14:00

    Usually this job gets done by the Professional Services engineers. For your reference there is Disk Space Work Sheet in the EmailXtender Installation guide (Chaper 2, pages 7-8). Please also check rest of the requirements, but we need to remember those are MINIMUM and you will have to INCREASE those to suit your requirements.

    Chaper 2 has most of the information required for EX server install.