Time to deploy on Windows

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

  • An agent management running on a dedicated 64-bit Windows Server 2008 virtual machine, with 12GB RAM and 8 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 = 0.04 * C + 8

where T is the maximum time to deploy in minutes, and C is the number of agents. This formula is valid for deployments up to 3000 agents.

If you are deploying to more than 2000 agents, you might experience significantly improved performance by increasing the phone home interval to five minutes (300 seconds).