BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Version 5.0

[jacksors]

I'm getting ready to stand up my BES 5.0 server and will be connecting 250 users. We won't be doing any kind of application distribution or anything like that from the BES, just straight up email delivery.

Can one server, with the right processing power and memory, handle that many users? is there any kind of sizing guide or tool?

[knottyrope]

http://docs.blackberry.com/en/admin/deliverables/12044/BlackBerry_Enterprise_Server_for_Microsoft_Ex...

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Item Requirement

BlackBerry Enterprise Server that

supports up to 200 users

• Single processor, 2.0 GHz Intel® Xeon® (two processors recommended)

• 2 GB of memory

• 2 drives, RAID 1

BlackBerry Enterprise Server that

supports up to 500 users

• Two processors, 2.0 GHz Intel Xeon

• 2 GB of memory

• 2 drives, RAID 1

BlackBerry Enterprise Server that

supports up to 1000 users

• Two processors, 2.0 GHz Intel Xeon

• 3 GB of memory

• 2 drives, RAID 1

BlackBerry Enterprise Server that

supports up to 2000 users

• Two processors, 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon or two processors, 1.86 GHz Intel Xeon

5100 Series (Dual Core)

• 4 GB of memory

• 2 drives, RAID 1 or 4 drives, RAID 1+0

[CerealBypass]

Assuming you meet the hardware requirements, 250 users should be fine.

There is also a Perfomance Benchmarking Guide that you might want to take a look at.