PST Migration using PST Capture tool 2.0

Hello,
I am planning to use Microsoft PST Capture 2.0 tool to import PST's located on C: Drive of users to personal archive mailbox of the respective user in the on-premises exchange 2010 mailbox.
There are total of 16000 users. I am wondering will PST Capture Tool, be able to handle this huge requirement? Based on past experience, can anyone suggest me healthy practice of planning PST migration using PST capture 2.0?
Any help on this will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Kapil

Make sure you spec the PST Migration server properly, also, the number of PST files is not the problem, It's the size of all the PST files.
From my experience keep an eye on the disk space because If you are using a DAG once you start the migration the DB log files will be massive and you will need to run full backup to clear them so make sure you run backups every 12 hours to clear the logs.
If you batch them each night to a reasonable number your environment can handle everything should be fine.
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