Skype for Business Server 2015, Capacity Calculator

Author: Pramod Jaisalmeria

Contributors: Tahir Ali Khan, Walid Boumerdassi, Andrew Frantsuzov

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Modality/Workload
No Vid - Mobile Worker
IM/P

Average number of contacts in Contacts list

Users enabled for Enterprise Voice
Enterprise Voice

Average number of calls per user per hour (peak)

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)
Percentage of users using dial-in conferencing
Conferencing

Percentage of conferences using voice

Including video (No Multi View)
Including Multi View
Including application sharing
Including web conferencing
Impact of Third Party Video Systems
Mobility

Percentage of users enabled for Mobility

Interop (1*)

Number of Third Party Video Systems in organization

Video

Number of concurrent Calls

Enhanced Video Experience enabled

Recommendations Servers*
Total Front End Servers Required 12
Edge Servers (based on 30% external) 2
Archiving/Call Detail Recording/Quality of Experience services Store 1
Back End Database Server Required (Pools Required) 1
VIS Servers Required 3
Mediation Server Perf counters
Call duration in minutes
Concurrent calls
Calls on consolidated Mediation Server
Maximum calls on a stand-alone Mediation Server
Supported users per front end
(1*) The Video interop service runs on a dedicated server with this hardware: 64 GB of RAM with 16 cores at 1.8 GH
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Workload Number of users Front End CPU* Network in Mbps

80.0% 80000 141% 181
80 NA
50.0% 40000
4 NA
65.0% NA
60.0% 24000 114% 262
40.0% 16000 20% 21
5.0% 4000
10.0% 2400 16% 24
10.0% 400 26% 9
100.0% 4000 101% 533
100.0% 720 4% 146
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0.0% 0 0% 0
100.0% 1800 29% 650
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100.0% 720 5% 143
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100.0% 100 2% 33
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40.0% 32000 96% 2.34

100.0% 2000
5.0% 100
100.0% 100 161% 17.55
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Physical
Servers* Average CPU Load Network in Mbps Memory In GB
12 51% 167 21
2 NA NA NA
1 NA NA NA
1 NA NA NA
3 54% 5.8506333333 NA
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2080
173
1500
6667
hardware: 64 GB of RAM with 16 cores at 1.8 GHz (Intel Xeon E5-2450L)
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and traffic patterns. Results

Memory in GB
24.01

7.63
1.66

0.16
0.87
3.50
1.02
0.00
12.16
0.42
3.90

14.76

0.98
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Version 1.0 - First release
Version 2.0 - Second release with VIS data