Exchange App data volume

[drazzi]

Hello-
I setup the Exchange App on one of my Exchange 2010 HT/CAS servers and let it run for just short of an hour. Within that period of time the Licensing page reported that ~4-500mb of data was logged... does that seem reasonable or do I have something misconfigured?

We have the 2gb license, but with that kind of data volume there is no was i'll be able to use the Exchange App until I license more data. We have 2 HT/CAS servers and 3 mailbox servers.

Just trying to get a feel if this amount of data should be expected.

Thanks!

[jbernt_splunk · Accepted solution]

Hello!

How many users do you have? In that hour timeframe, what's the inbound/outbound message queues looking like? This seems a bit high, but it really depends on how many users you have.

Jeffro

[drazzi]

Thank you.

[jbernt_splunk]

That sounds perfectly normal then with mobile devices and clients such as Outlook and OWA. Our baseline is 1000 users, sending 50, 20k messages, so the bare minimum in a "quiet" environment is 200 MB/day. More users and more traffic will up that variable to what you're seeing.

[drazzi]

We have somewhere around 11,000 users. The timeframe I had this running was 7:30-8:30 in the morning so the queues shouldn't have been real huge.

I did notice when looking at the index msexchange alot of the messages were related to activesync and other client chatter.