Hardware Specifications for your SEPM server:
Updated: 21 May 2010 | 18 comments
I mentioned in another thread that we are making quite a few changes in SEP and SEPM to reduce the resource requirements. To confirm that we are hitting the right target, can you post the hardware specs of your servers where SEPM will be installed? I am looking for processor speed, RAM, and the number of clients it will manage. If you are one of our partners, list out the typical server as well as the lowest end server you have encountered. If you dont want to post publically, send a message to my mailbox.
I appreciate the input.
Regards,
JimW
Endpoint Protection
Product Management.
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Jim Waggoner Director Product Management, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Enterprise Security Group, Symantec
Windows Server 2003 w/ SP2
VM on ESX 3.5
Dual CPU (Intel Xeon @ 2.33 GHz)
1 GB RAM
Currently only 10 test clients, this will expand to to 300
VMWare ESX 3.5
Windows Server 2003 R2 Std
SP2
IntelR Xeon CPU 5160@3.00Ghz
2.99Ghz 1.00GB of Ram.
60GB disk in one partiton.
1200 clients current
1800 clients final
Message Edited by Matt Pierce on 02-14-2008 01:54 PM
1. semsvc.exe still goes into 90%+ cpu usage. This occurs about once per week and is onlly solved by re-booting the server.
2. when a laptop moves to a new location it takes a long time for the shield to show a green dot. Sometimes this does not happen at all or happens only if the user forces an update. This is clearly an issue. At the same time SEP does not recognize the new location, it is still using its previous location. This usually fixes itself with a re-boot. Clearly not an acceptable solution.
3. Since migrating to MR1 client Application Event log is being flooded with
4. smcgui.exe and 2-3 other SEP processes are always running on client using 15% cpu. there appears to be no idle (1-2%) on a client cpu anymore.
Jim Waggoner Director Product Management, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Enterprise Security Group, Symantec
we are testing on 4 Servers : 2 sepm 4Gb of ram / bi Xeon Quad-core 1.5Ghz, windows server 2003 SP2
+ 2 sql server 2005 US SP2 on same harware
package without antivirus for about 12 000 clients.
hope that those one will handle all of them ... ( today running Sygate V4 on solaris/oracle with V240 BiCPU+4Gb or ram and it's fine for 10 000 clients)
SEPM running on a VM too, over VMware Server 1.0.4 (formely GSX)
Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2
2Gb RAM
2 "virtual processors" (Intel Xeon 1.6 GHz)
~ 500 clients
Needs info from host server too?
Message Edited by Eduardo Nazato on 02-15-2008 11:00 AM
SQL Hardware requirements for SEP New Deployment
We plan to deploy SEP to about 50,000 clients. I would like to know if Blade460c 2xQuad core with 8GB RAM would be OK for the SQL. We estimate about 1TB for the the SQL SAN space.
We dont plan to run the SEP Management Server on the same box.
We plan to have 2 Management Servers with similar configuration and multiple distribution clients.
thanks
monona
My Spec
I'm runnning SEPM,LiveUpdate dan Central Quarantine using workstation performance. Here are the list :
IBM 8123MAH ThinkCentre A51
Intel Pentium 4 HT (3 Ghz)
Ram 3 Gb
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP2
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition
Handling for 1200 client.
Well the problem is SEPM running not to fast, perhaps you have suggestion for suitable hardware Specification since the information in http://service1.symantec.com/support/ent-security.nsf/854fa02b4f5013678825731a007d06af/cce568323b2f6efb882575fc007b5182?OpenDocument not detailed. We planning to upgrade it to server.
Hyper-V
Our SEPM servers are successfully running Windows 2008 SP1 servers that are actually virtual machines under Windows 2008 SP1 Hyper-V hosts.
Jon
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