Thank you for the write up. I’m considering doing exactly what this article describes. Our developers are interested in setting up a mission critical JIRA instance for QA and bug tracking. This translates to 1000 active users and several million bugs (eventually).
You mention having 2000 active JIRA users. I was wondering if you could share additional infrastructure details about your JIRA instance. How large is the production DB in terms of disk space? What are you using to backup the DB (xtradump, mysqldump, SAN snapshot)?