MDAEMON MESSAGING SERVER – SYSTEM RECOMMENDATIONS

Users	Operating System	Processor	Memory	Hard Drives	Drive Type
6	Window Server 2008 (32 or 64 bit)	Core2Duo / i5	2 GB	RAID 1 Array	SATA
12	Window Server 2008 (32 or 64 bit)	Core2Duo / i5	2 GB	RAID 1 Array	SATA
25	Window Server 2008 (32 or 64 bit)	Core2Duo / Xeon 3000 Series	4 GB	RAID 1 Array(System Drive) + RAID 1 Array(Mail Storage)	SATA
50	Windows Server 2008 R2	Xeon 3000 / Xeon 5000	6 GB	RAID 1 Array(System Drive) + RAID 1 Array(Mail Storage)	SATA
100	Windows Server 2008 R2	Xeon 5000	6 GB	RAID 1 Array(System Drive) + RAID 5 Array(Mail Storage)	SATA / NearLine SAS
250	Windows Server 2008 R2	Xeon 5000 / Dual Xeon 5000	8 GB	RAID 1 Array(System Drive) + RAID 5 Array(Mail Storage)	NearLine SAS / SAS
500	Windows Server 2008 R2	Xeon 5000 / Dual Xeon 5000	8 GB	RAID 1 Array(System Drive) + RAID 10 Array(Mail Storage)	NearLine SAS / SAS
1000	Windows Server 2008 R2	Dual Xeon 5000 / Xeon 7000	8 GB	RAID 1 Array(System Drive) + RAID 10 Array(Mail Storage) + RAID 1 Array(Log Files)	SAS / SSD
2500	Windows Server 2008 R2	Quad Xeon 7000	32 GB	RAID 1 Array(System Drive) + RAID 10 Array(Mail Storage) + RAID 1 Array(Log Files)	SAS / SSD
2500+	Windows Server 2008 R2	Quad Xeon 7000	32 GB	RAID 1 Array(System Drive) + RAID 10 Array(Mail Storage) + RAID 1 Array(Log Files)	SSD
Notes:	The size of hard drives required will vary depending on the amount of mail each user is storing on the server, the amount of logs you want to retain, and what other applications installed on the machine. MDaemon is only available as a 32 bit application, however, it is fully supported running on 64 bit Windows operating systems. The system specifications provided above are general recommendations for physical hardware, if you are planning to run MDaemon in a virtual environment your system specifications may vary. When installing the BlackBerry Enterprise Server for MDaemon, Microsoft SQL Express 2008 is installed. For most installations we suggest increasing the above recommendations for memory by 1GB in order to accommodate SQL. For more information regarding the system requirements of SQL Express please visit Microsoft’s website.