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Scalability

When planning for the ADES AIM deployment, consider the following key factors that have an impact on the infrastructure sizing and system performance:

• Available memory for the ADES AIM, excluding the memory that operating system and other applications uses:
  • Host with 1-GB free memory can monitor 20 hosts (2 Active Directory hosts and 18 Exchange hosts).
  • Host with 2-GB free memory can monitor 40 hosts (6 Active Directory hosts and 34 Exchange hosts).
  • Host with 3-GB free memory can monitor 60 hosts (10 Active Directory hosts and 50 Exchange hosts).
• Geographic distribution of the environment:
  • When the ADES AIM is in geographical proximity, it reduces the time to discover and poll the environment.
  • High latency or packet loss can cause the AIM not to obtain all the data that is required.

Note: The sizing information is an approximate estimate of the deployment requirements and it is not definitive. The sizing information varies according to the monitoring environment.