I would like to share some Exchange 2010 hybrid migration facts with you that we figured out.
First, again many thanks to Michael Van Horenbeeck! He helped me discuss this with a customer. I’m always very happy to work with him. And many thanks to Ben Winzenz and Jeff Kizner as well, I’m very grateful for your help.
In short: a customer is trying to keep about 65k mailboxes in sync to ensure a short cutover time. We are using a maximum of 1,500 mailboxes per batch, 5 batches per week, and switching 7,500 mailboxes with an overall data of about 5TB per week. For some technical details, we are using Azure ER (800 Mbit) for migration with 4 TMG as a proxy and some kind of F5 load balancing in between, PAW is activated, and two migration endpoints with each 100 sync/complete in parallel. We did some networking measuring and move request statistics and we had an average migration velocity of 18.6GB/h for batches starting the first incremental sync (0% to 95%) which is great. Of course, the migration velocity depends on the number of batches, mailboxes, mailbox items, network workload, etc.
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