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  • Friday, July 20, 2012 12:34 PM
     
     
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    Team,

    I have to provide a sizing for a Windows 2008 Storage server which would act as a NAS Gateway and will be used to storage user profiles for around 5000 users.

    Can someone please suggest me the hardware configuration for this server in terms of CPU/Memory and Network that would suffice for 5000 users, please note that we are an IBM shop hence the server choice is restricted to IBM.

    Thanks.
     

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  • Monday, July 23, 2012 9:16 AM
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    Hello,

    This is a question much more related to IBM hardware solutions. Therefore, I recommend the following Website for reference:

    IBM Sizing Guides
    https://www-304.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/sizing/sizingguides.jsp

    (Note: Since the site is not hosted by Microsoft, Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.)

    Please let me know the assistance I can provide from Microsoft side, which I will be glad to do.

    Thanks.

    Regards,
    Miya

    Miya Yao

    TechNet Community Support


     
  • Monday, July 23, 2012 3:30 PM
     
     
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    Hi Miya,

    Thanks a ton for your assistance on this.

    I will look into this estimator later today but in the mean time can you share some best practices for sizing NFS share on Windows Storage server w.r.t. CPU & Memory. For disk I understand that we have to consider the IOPS etc but not sure on what grounds do we propose CPU & Memory.

    Thanks.

     
  • Tuesday, July 31, 2012 6:24 AM
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    Here's the Best Practices for Services for Network File System.

    Regards,

    Miya

    Miya Yao

    TechNet Community Support