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ACE Management Server Administrator's Manual
Database Throughput and Scalability
For production deployments, VMware recommends that you use Oracle, MS‐SQL, or
Postgres as your database platform.
More than 95 percent of the storage space that an ACE Management Server requires is
used to log event information, which is an audit trail of all transactions performed
through ACE Management Server. Table
on the number of clients being served.
The figures in the table are based on a 90‐day database archival period. Back up the
database records every 90 days and keep event logs for 90 days. You can configure ACE
Management Server to purge event logs every 90 days.
Table 2-2. Database Storage Recommendations
Number of Clients
100
1,000
10,000
The authentication event generates most of the data because an event is generated
every time someone attempts to authenticate to ACE Management Server. You can
configure ACE Management Server to log less event information. See "Logging Events"
on page 49.
LDAP Throughput
ACE Management Server can communicate with your Active Directory domain
controller to authenticate user credentials. Your domain controller infrastructure
handles the LDAP traffic required to support the number of clients that you anticipate.
Integrating with Active Directory through LDAP is implemented differently in the
Windows ACE Management Server than in the Linux‐based ACE Management Server.
The Windows ACE Management Server uses the WinLDAP library bundled with your
Windows operating system. The Linux ACE Management Server uses a third‐party
Kerberos Library and OpenSSL. VMware internal testing results indicate that the
Windows implementation provides better performance than Linux.
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2‐2 lists recommended database sizes based
Recommended Database Size
50Mb
500Mb
5,000Mb
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