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Deployment Sizing Key Factors

A number of key factors having a considerable impact on the infrastructure sizing, and system performance, including the following:

• Size of software packages to deliver.
• Number of software packages to deliver.
• Frequency of software package delivery.
• Network latency between deployment components and target computers.
• Network bandwidth management.

The initial deployment to a target installs IDPrimer, a small installation agent. Once IDPrimer is installed, subsequent deployments to the same target should take less time.

Under ideal conditions, a single distribution server can install about 50-100 SystemEDGE packages per hour. However, if many tasks fail due to any of the deployment prerequisites not being met, the throughput of a distribution server will be reduced.

Recommendations:

• Verify that target servers typically meet the requirements for deploying software remotely.
• A single distribution server can handle 500 target servers comfortably.
• Install additional distribution servers local to the target location.
• Deploy using distribution servers that are local to targets if possible.
• Schedule deployments to start during periods of low network traffic if possible.