Time to deploy on Linux

The guidance here is based on testing done using the following set-up:

  • Agent management running on a dedicated bare metal 64-bit Linux system with 12GB RAM and 12 cores.
  • Deployment across a high-speed LAN network. On higher latency networks, the time to deploy will be longer.
  • An agent phone home interval of 60 seconds.
  • A set of apps totaling 50MB in size. This is considered a relatively large size to deploy, because in most situations you would deploy a set of apps only once, followed by incremental updates.

To estimate the total time it will take to deploy 50MB to all your agents (assuming the agent management hardware discussed above), you can use this formula:

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T = 0.0075 * C + 2

where T is the maximum time to deploy in minutes, and C is the number of agents.

For example, it would take a maximum of 9.5 minutes to deploy 50MB of apps to 1000 agents.