Hardware Specifications for the Exchange Mailbox Agent User Mailbox and Journal Mailbox Access Nodes

Applies to: User Mailbox, and Journal Mailbox

The access node is the server that runs archiving and cleanup jobs for the User Mailbox and the Journal Mailbox.

Important

  • For high-availability, configure at least two access nodes.

  • Use an access node for every 10,000 mailboxes in your environment.

  • We recommend that you use extra access nodes and service accounts for the first full job.

Access Node Size Without Content Indexing

If you do not use content indexing, base the size of your access nodes on these guidelines.

Number of mailboxes*

5000

10,000

Number of messages per day**

500,000

1 million

Online Service account or Azure Apps (Modern Authentication)

5

10

On-Premises Service Account

2 (1 per Exchange Server)

4(1 per Exchange Server)

CPU or vCPU, and RAM

CPU or vCPU: 4 cores

RAM: 8 GB

CPU or vCPU: 8 cores

RAM: 16 GB

Streams per access node

10

20

* Based on an average mailbox size of 5 GB, and an average of 50,000 messages per mailbox.

** Based on an average message size of 100 KB.

Access Node Size with Content Indexing

If you use content indexing, base the size of your access nodes on these guidelines.

Number of mailboxes*

5000

10,000

Number of messages per day**

500,000

1 million

Online Service account or Azure Apps (Modern Authentication)

5

10

On-Premises Service Account

2 (1 per Exchange Server)

4(1 per Exchange Server)

CPU or vCPU, and RAM

CPU or vCPU: 8 cores

RAM: 16 GB

CPU or vCPU: 16 cores

RAM: 32 GB

Streams per access node

10

20

* Based on an average mailbox size of 5 GB, and an average of 50,000 messages per mailbox.

** Based on an average message size of 100 KB.

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