Hi
I'm trying to find if there are any calculators\guidelines for CPU usage of EV datbases hosted on a dedicated SQL server.
Here's my situation - all servers are virtualised with VMWare 5.5
A new EV solution for 1000 users with email archiving only (4 node Exch 2010 DAG). Also full journaling for all users (2 x Journal mailboxes). The solution will be a single EV Mailbox archiving server and a single EV journal archiving server (<100k messages a day) with a single dedicated SQL 2012 server (all vm's).
Both EV servers will be 8 core 16GB servers, but for SQL licencing reasons the SQL will be 4 core (probably still 16GB). I think this will be fine for the size of environment.
However, there will be a small e-Discovery requirement (<10 searches a year) and we don't want to create a dedicated EV DA vm for this, but want to install it on one of the existing EV virtual machines. I believe the preferred place to install EV DA (for small environments) is on the SQL server and so I'm try to find out if the 4 core SQL server may get low on CPU resources (as only 4 cores) or if there should be sufficient CPU resources to hosts the EV DA application. If it might be a margin call on the SQL resources then I guess the next best place to install would be on one of the EV servers.
thanks