File Share Encryption

Afternoon All,

Apologies if this has been covered before.

I am in the process of producing a design for a PGP WDE and Universal Server solution. We have very strict design guidelines where we need to detail and show all calculations and assumptions on solution sizing.These must all be backed up with vendor documentation.

I am have trouble locating any sizing details for PGP ie clients to Universal Server. Have been advised each U-S has a maximum concurrent connection count of 250 but can theoretically support thousands of clients. Need to document how this works in practice - ie if the connection count is breach, what is the impact... Also is documented anywhere what the boot process is and when the client needs to communicate with the U-S.

I have seen recommended hardware specs but this does detail number of clients supported.

Many thanks

I'm afraid that there is nothing documented that I know of.

As a rule of thumb, each US will support around 10K clients.

When it comes to concurrent connections during bootup,not sure what you mean here. PGP desktop does not communicate with the US on bootup; communications to the US are done once the operating system has been booted.

Forgot to mention - 250 concurrent connections is the limit for concurrent clients as you mentioned. This is within the Apache config file, and in theory, can be edited, though I don't recomend it.

See KB:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH149252

As apache handles this, I presume that once it hits 250 CONCURRENT connections, your clients will get an apache error message. You client will then retry to connect later, and download any updates once the number of connections drops under 250.

I would suggest you contact your account manager for a formal document on this, or one of the Symantec authorised partners for help with the design.

Thank you,

Just got off the phone with our account manager\technical Symantec consultant who have echoed what you have said. Basically very little is documented and what there is is quite sketchy.

It would be useful if more sizing information was readily available.