Groove Relay Capacity Installing Office Groove Server 2007 Relay at your site ensures relay availability to your Groove users and places all relay management within the control of your server administrators. If you decide to secure and manage dedicated relays, plan on supporting no more than 18,000 Groove users on a single relay server. However, actual limitations on relay capacity may vary and you should monitor Groove client and relay performance to determine when additional server hardware or software may be necessary. If your organization supports a global network of users, to maximize the performance of your relay equipment, try to locate your relay servers in close proximity to your main communities of users. The increased network "hop" count necessary to support data transmissions from Groove clients to distant relays degrades network performance. The following specifications are on an average deployment in a mid-sized company and can provide a reference point for planning a Groove Relay deployment. Hardware/Software Projected Load for Community of 36,000 Groove Users Dual 64-bit processors, 2.4 GHz, 8 GB 12,000 users provisioned to a Groove Relay RAM server and online Multiple disk controllers (one dedicated 30,000 connected Groove devices controller for the relay’s data volume and Maximum bandwidth of 8 MB/concurrent zero-to-one additional controller for user/day operating system volumes) Multiple NICs, and write-caching hardware RAID 450-GB RAID disk array for relay data Windows Server 2003 x64 The above describes an organization with a community of 36,000 Groove users. In this scenario, all 36,000 users are provisioned to the relay server with the assumption that no more than 33% of the provisioned users will be online at any time. About 12,000 provisioned users are online and connected concurrently. The 30,000 connected devices include the devices of users provisioned to this relay server and online, as well as the devices of other collaborating users provisioned to other Relays. Note that the of online Groove users to devices connected to the relay server varies depending on usage patterns. Typically clients provisioned to other relays connect to a Groove Relay server in order to enqueue data for clients that are provisioned to that relay. The connected devices for non-provisioned users consume some relay resources, although substantially fewer resources than for a provisioned and online user. Therefore,
Groove Relay Capacity Installing Office Groove Server 2007 Relay at your site ensures relay availability to your Groove users and places all relay management within the control of your server administrators. If you decide to secure and manage dedicated relays, plan on supporting no more than 18,000 Groove users on a single relay server. However, actual limitations on relay capacity may vary and you should monitor Groove client and relay performance to determine when additional server hardware or software may be necessary. If your organization supports a global network of users, to maximize the performance of your relay equipment, try to locate your relay servers in close proximity to your main communities of users. The increased network "hop" count necessary to support data transmissions from Groove clients to distant relays degrades network performance. The following specifications are on an average deployment in a mid-sized company and can provide a reference point for planning a Groove Relay deployment. Hardware/Software Projected Load for Community of 36,000 Groove Users Dual 64-bit processors, 2.4 GHz, 8 GB RAM Multiple disk controllers (one dedicated controller for the relay’s data volume and zero-to-one additional controller for operating system volumes) Multiple NICs, and write-caching hardware RAID 450-GB RAID disk array for relay data Windows Server 2003 x64 12,000 users provisioned to a Groove Relay server and online 30,000 connected Groove devices Maximum bandwidth of 8 MB/concurrent user/day The above describes an organization with a community of 36,000 Groove users. In this scenario, all 36,000 users are provisioned to the relay server with the assumption that no more than 33% of the provisioned users will be online at any time. About 12,000 provisioned users are online and connected concurrently. The 30,000 connected devices include the devices of users provisioned to this relay server and online, as well as the devices of other collaborating users provisioned to other Relays. Note that the of online Groove users to devices connected to the relay server varies depending on usage patterns. Typically clients provisioned to other relays connect to a Groove Relay server in order to enqueue data for clients that are provisioned to that relay. The connected devices for non-provisioned users consume some relay resources, although substantially fewer resources than for a provisioned and online user. Therefore,
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