Realistically, How many users can MM support?

Hi,

We've been a Mac shop since before I came on board, but the death of XServe and the lingering apparent demise of any sort of serious server functionality is leaving me to begin planning for the dreaded W-word for my data center. Question now is how long do I have? I moved an office of ~45 users to a MM with a Promise RAID 1+0 a couple years ago. We also authenticate to an AD 2012r2 and have WRD for a couple business apps that simply do not exist on Mac.

The server does nothing else, just an SMB file server.

But now we're getting closer to 60 users and I'm concerned, even if I find the magical combination off nsmb.conf and other settings, my server simply will not support them. Notwithstanding Tim Cook's comments about the "importance" of MM moving forward and this spring's "please don't leave us, business customers" press gathering, I'm worried.

I'm sure I'm not the only one in this boat, but would love to hear if anyone else has experience trying to stretch it to five or six dozen without tanking performance and how you did it.

Thanks,

Jeff