Scaling KSMG

July 10, 2024

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This section provides recommendations for provisioning computing resources that you need to install and use KSMG. The recommendations depend on the traffic volume and the combination of protection technologies that you want to use.

How to determine the virtual machine configuration

Choosing the optimal configuration of virtual machines involves the following steps:

Determining the requirements
The hardware specifications are derived from the needs of your organization.
Determining the suitable virtual machine configuration
Choosing virtual disk size

Specifications of the hardware used for benchmarking

Virtual machines were benchmarked on DELL PowerEdge R450 servers with the following specifications:

Intel Xeon Silver 4314 CPU
32 GB DDR4-3200 ECC RDIMM memory
480 GB SSD, SATA
2x10 Gbit BASE-T Ethernet controller
2x1 Gbit BASE-T Ethernet controller

The hypervisor had only KSMG virtual machines powered on while benchmarking was taking place. The application was receiving email traffic. The average message size in email traffic was 272.0 KB.

The table below lists the number of disk read and write operations per second that was measured while benchmarking.

Read and write operations per second on a single cluster node

Combination of protection technologies	8 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM	16 vCPUs, 20 GB RAM
Anti-Virus	1300	2000
Anti-Virus, Content Filtering (file types)	2000	2600
Anti-Virus, Content Filtering (100 regular expressions + file types)	500	1100
Anti-Virus, Content Filtering (1000 regular expressions + file types)	600	1000
Anti-Virus, Link scanning, KATA protection, Content Filtering (file types or file types + 100 regular expressions).	700	1200
Anti-Virus, Link scanning, KATA protection, Content Filtering (file types + 1000 regular expressions).	500	1100
Anti-Spam, Message authentication	300	600
Anti-Spam, Anti-Phishing, Message authentication	300	600
Anti-Spam, Anti-Phishing, KATA protection, Message authentication, Content Filtering (file types or file types + 100 regular expressions).	750	1250
Anti-Spam, Anti-Phishing, KATA protection, Message authentication, Content Filtering (file types + 1000 regular expressions).	500	1000
Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, Anti-Phishing, Link scanning, Message authentication.	300	600
Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, Anti-Phishing, Link scanning, KATA protection, Message authentication, Content Filtering (file types or file types + 100 regular expressions).	700	1200
Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, Anti-Phishing, Link scanning, KATA protection, Message authentication, Content Filtering (file types + 1000 regular expressions).	500	900

In this Help section

Determining the requirements

Determining the specification of the virtual machine

Choosing virtual disk size

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