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Hello Support
My Current Infra
1-Primary Domain Controller
1-Secondary Domain Controller + File Server
2-RODC
2 Child Domain
1 Exchange Server 2016 (CU19) Windows2012 R2 64Bit
DB01
DB02
Current Memory is 20GB . So created Additional partition for SWAP Memory as 21GBHDD Pagefile set as 20GB
We have 300 Mailbox. to improve performance. Planning to increase from 20Gb to 32GB
Now i want know How much SWAP memory to be allocated when we are using 32GB in Exchange Server. So i can increase the partition 21Gb HDD -> required for pagefile
Please advise
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You can use this to calculate
Hello Andy
Thanks for the Quick reply.
which you given link is says about Physical Machine it means including VM Machines are they saying it?
For 32GB should i set as 32778MB? or Can i make page file with HDD Drive as 40GB?
What do you suggest? Can you clear me with best practice. if keep Page file more will it impact my Exchange Server?
Should set 32778MB Page file with 33GB HDD Partition for SWAP?
What is the use of following Page file for exchange server especially
This is the official guidance:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/plan-and-deploy/system-requirements?view=exchserver-2016#hardware-requirements-for-exchange-2016
You will notice there is no difference for a physical or VM, so in your case, set it
32 GB of RAM or more installed: 32GB plus 10MB (32,778MB)
The paging file size is set that way so it you can get a full memory dump in case of a crash.
You do not absolutely have to set it that value, its just recommended.
Hope that helps!
Many thanks for the details
I am increasing CPUs in VM like 4CPU to 8CPU is it good to increase for Exchange Server?
Please advise
Sure, no problem.
Follow the guidance for virtual machines as well:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/plan-and-deploy/virtualization?view=exchserver-2016
If you could, please mark as an accepted answer so we can close this up. Thanks!
Surely increasing cores could never be wrong for your system performance, considering the Exchange services could occupy multiple threads,
Ask the Perf Guy: Sizing Exchange 2016 Deployments
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Best regards,
Lou
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