Endpoint Protection

I seem to remember reading a document at one time that had recommended hardware configuration specs based on the number of clients being supported. Can anyone point me to this document?

 There were the closest discussions i could find
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/resource-requirements-endpoint-mgmt-console-real-world

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/hardware-specifications-your-sepm-server

I was about to write your document you are really fast virkram :)

Thanks. The links provided have good information and address some other questions I had. The excel tools appear to only help scope disk space requirements.

I need other hardware attributes like CPU, RAM, etc... based on the number of clients.

I thought at one time Symantec had a generic minimum hardware requirement doc based on the number of clients.

Basically I have plans to use a single SQL database with two front ends on VM. This will support 40,000 clients. I will deploy GUPS where needed but all other clients get their virus defs from regional servers where LU Admin is installed.

Unless the VM's are given adequate harware I think you will stuggle.
You are much better off ensuring that your SEPM's and SQL are hardware based and located on the same GB lan segment.
Then use vmware SEPM for testing purposes or non critical roles. I use one dedicated to rapid release definitions and incident response.

I will be able to help you out with some more definitve hardware specs in a month or so as I have just started deploying into an environment with 300,000+ endpoints.
SEPM's are dual 3GHz Xeons with 16GB or ram. I am going to see how many clients I can get running off these before adding additional SEPM's.
I am not planning LU servers at this stage and will rely on 1000+ wildcard based GUP's at remote sites.

I am planning to run with very minimal logging and will do a lot of tuning.
Can't wait to see how it all ends up.

cheers

Z

Here is what symantec recommends

Hardware for SEPM
32-bit systems:

• 1 GB RAM (2-4 GB recommended)
• 4 GB on the hard disk for the server, plus 4 GB for the database

http://www.symantec.com/business/products/sysreq.jsp?pcid=pcat_security&pvid=endpt_prot_1

Thanks for this information but I've seen this already. It's to generic and doesn't tell me how many clients it will support.