I have a 2-node DAG with exchange 2010 SP3, each node has 4 Core and 12 GB of physical memory. These physical boxes can handle 32 cores and 128 GB of memory each. What happens if we allocate too much resources to exchange ? Any documentation
of the maximum supported resources for exchange 2010 if any?
As far as I know, Exchange server do not limit the maximum support for the amount of CPU and memory. However this limit always relate on system architectures and motherboard, because Exchange server run on Windows server and it also require hardware support.
More details about Memory Configurations and Exchange Performance, for your reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd346700(v=exchg.141).aspx
Thanks for your reply. I guess we all know the minimum hardware requirement but I was just curious about possible maximum requirement. I am being asked to put 1 TB memory and 32 Core in an exchange system which hardware can support that. My only concern
is any possible hidden side affect that we may run into. I know for instance store.exe will use any amount of memory you throw at it. That said, if we have 1 TB physical memory I am expecting store.exe to use 95 % of it if not more. What will happen if we
need to create a memory dump or store.exe dump? The OS we are using is windows 2008 R2 ent with SP1. Any issues with throwing all these resources at this type of OS?
