Sizing IIS ARR for Exchange Server 2013

Hi Everyone,..
I planned to publish Exchange 2013 through IIS ARR server, but I've had trouble finding any data on CPU / memory usage for a dedicated ARR server based on Microsoft recommendation. There are 8000 users that will be access from ARR server.
Hopefully you can help for sizing so
there isn't bottleneck on that server.
Thanks
~IH~

Hi Irfan
The concurrent connections depends upon appConcurrentRequestLimit which has a default value of 5000. I think you need to increase this if in your case the concurrent connections exceed 5000
I have found few articles for your reference
http://www.iis.net/learn/extensions/configuring-application-request-routing-(arr)/achieving-high-availability-and-scalability-arr-and-nlb
http://blogs.technet.com/b/tristank/archive/2008/03/11/maxuserport-what-it-is-what-it-does-when-it-s-important.aspx
https://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/07/19/reverse-proxy-for-exchange-server-2013-using-iis-arr-part-1.aspx
https://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/08/02/part-2-reverse-proxy-for-exchange-server-2013-using-iis-arr.aspx
https://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/08/05/part-3-reverse-proxy-for-exchange-server-2013-using-iis-arr.aspx
Its better to submit this to http://forums.iis.net/ since this is more kind of IIS related issue and you will get better response
Good Luck !!
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servers when setting up DAG.)
E: Log files 1GB ( here you map multiple databases in different folders,so it look like E:\LOG01,E:\LOG02,E:\LOG03 and so on.And each folder is its own 70 gb disk that you Mount into one of these folders at time.Path and name have to be identical on
both servers when setting up DAG.)
Approx 300GB each database and 70 gb each log(for each database) should be fine.
10gb database pr user can cause performance issue if they are working online (Citrix or other apps),if cache locally it might take time if they are not inside worknetwork.
Dont forget that you should also have your own replication network or it will consume bandwidth when you move over multiple users to different databases.
Hope this helps!
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