Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Capacity Calculator

Author: Moustafa Noureddine, Marc Mezquita, and Pramod Jaisalmeria Contributor: Ramon B. Infante

Legal Information: 2012 Microsoft. All rights reserved. This tool is designed to assist you for your internal det on the parameters you elect to use. This tool is provided AS IS; there are no express warranties, guarantees, or co Modality/Workload Users enabled for instant messaging (IM) and presence Average number of contacts in Contacts list Users enabled for Enterprise Voice Average number of UC-PSTN calls per user Percentage of calls that use media bypass Percentage of voice users enabled for UC-PSTN calls Percentage of voice users enabled for UC-UC calls Percentage of users in concurrent conferences Percentage of conferences with group IM only (no voice) Conferencing Directors Archiving/Call Detail Recording/Quality of Experience services
Voice Apps Mobility

Total Front End Servers Required Edge Servers (based on 30% external)

IM/P Enterprise Voice

Percentage of users using dial-in conferencing Percentage of conferences using voice Including video Including application sharing Including web conferencing Response Group Call Park Address Book Web Query Percentage of users enabled for Mobility

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Servers* 1 1 1 1

Audio/Video Conferencing Servers required Back End Database Server Required (Pools Required) Mediation Server Perf counters Call duration in minutes Concurrent calls Calls on consolidated Mediation Server Maximum calls on a stand-alone Mediation Server

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*CPU cost is percentage of Front End Server. To calculate megacycles, multiply by 2,333 and multiply by 8 (for the ** Based on Lync Server baseline virtual machine processor with 4 cores maximum.

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is designed to assist you for your internal determination of server requirements based on users and traffic patterns. Results generated ma e are no express warranties, guarantees, or conditions. Workload 100.0% 80 50.0% 4 65.0% 60.0% 40.0% 5.0% 10.0% 15.0% 90.0% TRUE TRUE TRUE 0.15% 0.02% TRUE 20.0% Number of users 1000 NA 500 NA NA 300 200 50 28 7.5 45 7.5 18.75 7.5 1.5 0.15 1000 200 2% 1% 3% 1% 4% 2% 7.51% 0.01% 2% 1% 4% 2% 6% 1% 8% 3% 15.02% 0.01% 5% 1% 3% 0% 6% 1% Front End CPU* 1% Virtual Machine CPU** 2%

Physical Servers* 1 1 1 1 Average CPU Load 26% 40% 70% NA Network in Mbps 87 40 10 NA Memory in GB 14 8 4 NA

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3% NA

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7 NA

3 28.5 29 800

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s, multiply by 2,333 and multiply by 8 (for the server megacycles).

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Network in Mbps 5

Memory in GB 0.98

Megacycles Per Server 187

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0.22 1.23

526 52

1 (0) 7 4 61 15 0 0.06 1 0.01

0.02 0.35 0.20 0.30 2.49 0.04 1.18 0.13 0.30 0.26

378 175 521 107 715 294 1,401 1 448 112

Virtual Servers** 1 1 1 1 Average CPU Load 50% 40% 70% NA Network in Mbps 87 40 10 NA Memory in GB 16 8 4 NA

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7% NA

11 NA

7 NA

Calculation

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