Typical Growth Of 5000 User/Machine Object Directory; Virtual Servers - McAfee ENDPOINT ENCRYPTION ENTERPRISE - BEST PRACTICES GUIDE Manual

An Object Directory with 5000 users and 5000 systems could be expected to grow as follows:
Typical Growth of 5000 user/machine Object Directory
Day Data Size
1 83 MB
5 89 MB
20 204 MB
50 396 MB
100 747 MB
365 2455 MB
Users and systems are the most prevalent object types in a large database. Typically, on creation, these types
of objects take 4000 bytes. A day's audit adds around an additional 700 bytes of data per object. Although
these figures are very small, because of wasted space on the Object Directory Server's hard disk, the actual
disk size occupied by the Object Directory can be 4x or more larger.
Virtual Servers
McAfee Endpoint Encryption Manager can be run from a Virtual Server for lower numbers of Endpoints.
McAfee recommends physically dedicated hardware for high numbers of Endpoints.
Performance of virtual systems is dependent on many factors that can significantly affect the overall product
performance when compared to physically dedicated hardware. High‐speed access to the data within the
Object Directory is required and must be carefully considered and evaluated in a Virtual Server Environment.
Current testing of Virtual Servers running EEPC operates within a set numbers of database objects. McAfee's
experience shows that performances issue arising from the use of Virtual Servers is a result of:
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Lack of resources dedicated to the virtual server.
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Dynamically assigned resources to the virtual server which starves it of the necessary performance
during peak periods.
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Slow or reduced disk access, resulting in a slower access to the Object Directory.
McAfee supports the use of Virtual Servers running the administrative functionality of EEPC provided the
appropriate resources are fully dedicated to the Virtual Server at all times. If performance problems are
experienced, the resources available to the Virtual Server need to be increased. Please refer to the
recommended server specifications as the minimum resources fully assigned to the Virtual Server at all times.
These resources apply to the specific image, and not to the overall resources of the host.
Customers need to follow the recommendations of McAfee Support and raise a support ticket for the issues
related to a Virtual Server. These recommendations can vary from tweaking of server and machine settings as
specified in this guide all the way to moving the EEPC management environment to physical hardware as a last
resort if necessary.
By engaging McAfee professional services, they will assist you in adequately scoping your deployment
hardware needs and can recommend a best practices approach.
As the technology is evolving and better VM farms are coming online, virtual hardware support for greater
numbers should be possible. Please see McAfee KB 65747 for more information.
This will be reviewed for the next major release (version 6.0 ePO integrated).
Approx Disk Space Used
143 MB
143 MB
403 MB
745 MB
1050 MB
3900 MB
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