I have been doing some sizing work for a customer around System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr) and its use specifically for deployment (Windows Vista)– there seems to be some conflicting info in many different places – however the tables below gives some very rough guidelines pulled from different sources...thought it may be useful
Site System
Maximum recommended number per site
Clients
Up to 200,000 per hierarchy
Primary Site Server
Up to 100,000 directly assigned clients
Secondary Site Server
Up to 500 secondary sites per primary
Note
The number of secondary sites recommended per primary site is based on reasonably well connected and reliable WAN network connections. Unreliable server hardware or network connections can dramatically reduce this number.
Management Point
Up to 25,000 clients
To support more than 25,000 clients in one site, management point site systems can be configured to use Network Load Balancing (NLB).
Distribution Point
Up to 4,000 clients
The number of clients that one distribution point can support is dependent on network speed, disk performance, and software distribution package size.
Branch distribution point
Up to 2,000 per site, each capable of supporting up to 100 clients.
Software update point
To support more than 25,000 clients in one site, software update point site systems can be configured to use Network Load Balancing (NLB).
System Health Validator point
Up to 100,000 clients (or one per hierarchy if less than 100,000 clients)
Fallback status point
Up to 100,000 clients (or one per site)
ConfigMgr Site Server
(running site server all roles not specifically listed on other servers)
Component
Capacity
CPU
Twin Processor with Quad Cores 2.2 Ghz
Disk
OS 80 GB Raid 1
ConfigMgr Application 80 GB RAID 10 or 5
Distribution Point 250 GB RAID 10 or 5
Data drive can be SAN or DAS if external
LAN
100 /1000 MB (sec) production LAN
1000 / MB or Fibre for NLN array Comms
RAM
8 GB
OS
Windows Server 2003/8 Standard Edition 64 bit
IIS
Network Load Balancing
Licences
Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition or 2003 R2 with SP2
ConfigMgr site server licence (only 1 required fo this implementation)
ConfigMgr Site Database Server
Data 300 GB RAID 10 or 5
SQL Logs 300 GB RAID 10 or 5
OS Components
Windows Server 2003/8 Enterprise Edition 64 bit
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition (if clustering) or 2003 R2 with SP2
SQL Server 2005 Enterprise (if clustering support is needed otherwise standard will suffice)
20,000 ConfigMgr Client Access Licences
ConfigMgr Management Point Servers
Twin Processor with Dual Cores 2.2 Ghz
Data 80 GB RAID 10 or 5
ConfigMgr Software Update Point Server
Windows Software Update Services
Servers 2008 / 3 OS
ConfigMgr Remote/Branch Infrastructure Options
Branch Size (# users)
ConfigMgr Remote Architecture
Capacity / Licence Requirements
0-3 users
No local infrastructure
No ConfigMgr specific licence required beyond the ConfigMgr CAL
3-25 users
Single Branch Distribution Point
No ConfigMgr specific licence required beyond the SCCM CAL
25 – 100 users
Dual Branch Distribution Points (fault tolerance and capacity as images and packages will be extensively used)
100 – 1000 users
Windows Server 2003 / 2008 NTFS volume with 100 GB of capacity.
Can leverage existing file / application server capacity.
No ConfigMgr specific licence required
1000 – 2000 users
Secondary SCCM site Server
No ConfigMgr specific licence required beyond the SCCM CAL.
Windows Server 2003 / 2008 server licence
2000 users +
Primary site server
ConfigMgr site server
This post was contributed by Richard Smith a Senior Consultant with Microsoft Services, UK.
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Ci-dessous vous trouverez des informations très complètes afin de « Sizer » une architecture SCCM 2007
Hi,
I was wondering why you went with raid 10 on your primary server vs raid 1.
any chance you could hit me with an email at john.burke@aliant.ca
This sizing guide is not applicable because it is that rough and doesn't refer to any loads.
Can't use this, but thanks for trying.