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Distribution Server Recommendations

A deployment and configuration distribution (scalability) server ensures that deployment and policy configuration operations are carried out in an efficient and timely manner.

Once the CA Virtual Assurance manager is installed, the next step in the rollout of Remote Deployment and Policy Configuration is to consider the number of Distribution Servers.

For Deployment operations, we recommend using one Distribution Server per 2,000 target systems for a typical 100-Mb/sec network environment.

Note: If you use Policy Configuration and you do not use Remote Deployment, each Distribution Server can scale up to 3,000 servers.

Important! We recommend performing a test deployment to at least one system for each distribution server before large deployment operations. We recommend deploying all possible packages using the distribution server to verify that there are no failures with the larger scale deployments.