Recommended specifications?

[tas]

I looked around the main site but I could not find any "minimum recommended server specifications" from Scalix. Are there any recommended or would it be based on the ammount of users and mail?

Thanks,

Tim

[ScalixSupport]

This because it heavily depends on your requirements. For a low-end machine with only a few occasional users you can go downto P-III machines w/ 1 Ghz and 512 Megs of RAM. Naturally, you will get what you pay for.

Generally speaking Scalix will appreciate fast hard drives, so that is an area where you improve performance even on an old machine.

If you need accurate server sizing for your organisation I am happy to get you in touch with the resident guru's.

Cheers,

Sascha.

[tas]

That would be great. I could also post my specs here also If need be. I did post them in my SWA question also.

I have about 275 accounts, with a total of around 25 GB of mail to move.

Thanks,

Tim

[ScalixSupport]

Hi,

please send a message to support at scalix dot com and i will forward.

Thanks,

Sascha.

[tas]

Thank you very much. On it's way.....

[tas]

When I sent it I was told they won't help because I don't have a support contract etc.

[ScalixSupport]

While describing your environment you mentioned you were going to have just 10 premium users, so sales lost interest in a nanosecond ;-)

For an environment like the one you sent in, go for a 4GB memory upgrade and a fast disk subsystem. When you compare performance, it is important to remember to compare apple's to apple's. SWA will preload the folder content, so you are working with a substantial client.

Regarding your question will more RAM speed up things significantly, the answer would be "maybe", Tomcat profits from the memory and so does the disk cache. Prepopulating the SWA folder cache also only provides benefits for subsequent logins / access...

Sascha.

[adhodgson]

Hi,

For around 120-150 premium users, would you still recommend 4gb of ram (most use the Outlook client). Also, which RAID level would you recommend? Would like to get around 400gb in the server, so was going to use RAID 5 over 5 disks with one hotspair.

Andrew.

[ScalixSupport]

The Scalix server is actually quite a frugal piece of software. As a minimum, set aside 512MB RAM just to run the server ( this is also the baseline mentioned in the installation guide) Memory usage for the client varies. Looking at Outlook and load testing we performed, calculate 750 MB for 150 OL users.

In short, you are very much still in the comfort zone at 4GB.

Cheers,

Sascha.