Determining the specification of the virtual machine

To determine the specification of the virtual machine:

  1. In the first column of the table below, select the appropriate combination of protection technologies.
  2. In the row of the combination of protection technologies that you need, find the cells with the appropriate number of messages to be processed, taking into account the extra performance you want to provision as a safety factor and your chosen unit of measurement for the traffic volume, that is, the number of messages per second, per hour, or per day.

    The cells contain approximate values of the peak performance of the application.

  3. By referring to the column with the satisfactory number of processed messages, you can find out the specification of the virtual machine that you need in the table header.

    If multiple virtual machine specifications are suitable for you, we recommend choosing the configuration with the lowest number of virtual CPUs (vCPUs). It is better to have 2 virtual CPUs at 80% utilization than 8 virtual CPUs at 20% utilization.

The number of simultaneous email traffic processing threads is indicated under the virtual machine specification. When configuring the application, you must apply this setting on each node.

If you require more performance than the table suggests, please contact Kaspersky Technical Support.

We do not recommend using more virtual CPUs than you have physical cores in a single CPU installed in your virtualization server.

If the cluster is comprised of two or more nodes, we recommend putting the virtual machines on virtualization servers whose characteristics are identical.

The actual performance of the application may deviate from the figures in tables. The deviation may be caused by the peculiarities of the infrastructure and mail traffic of your organization, for example: the virtualization technology you are using, your hardware, the number and complexity of Content Filtering regular expressions, the size of individual messages being processed, and the presence of composite attachments (such as archives or office documents).

Application performance

Virtual machine
parameters

 

2 nodes, 8 vCPUs and 16 GB RAM each

3 nodes, 8 vCPUs and 16 GB RAM each

4 nodes, 8 vCPUs and 16 GB RAM each

2 nodes, 16 vCPUs and 20 GB RAM each

3 nodes, 16 vCPUs and 20 GB RAM each

4 nodes, 16 vCPUs and 20 GB RAM each

16 traffic processing threads

32 traffic processing threads

Combination
of protection technologies

Performance
(MPS – messages per second; MPH – messages per hour; MPD – messages per day)

Anti-Virus

282 MPS

659,300 MPH

8,520,000 MPD

409 MPS

965,900 MPH

12,370,000 MPH

449 MPS

1,051,600 MPH

13,590,000 MPD

449 MPS

1,051,500 MPH

13,590,000 MPD

740 MPS

1,731,500 MPH

22,380,000 MPD

2,438,300 MPS

1,919,000 MPH

31,510,000 MPD

• Anti-Virus

• Content Filtering

275 MPS

643,500 MPH

8,320,000 MPD

404 MPS

945,000 MPH

12,210,000 MPD

443 MPS

1,035,800 MPH

13,390,000 MPD

444 MPS

1,039,600 MPH

13,430,000 MPD

733 MPS

1,714,200 MPH

22,150,000 MPD

1,032 MPS

2,415,200 MPH

31,210,000 MPD

• Anti-Virus

• Link scanning

• KATA protection

• Content Filtering

78 MPS

182,300 MPH

2,360,000 MPD

117 MPS

274,100 MPH

3,540,000 MPD

155 MPS

363,500 MPH

4,700,000 MPD

155 MPS

362,600 MPH

4,690,000 MPD

230 MPS

538,300 MPH

6,960,000 MPD

301 MPS

704,000 MPH

9,100,000 MPD

• Anti-Spam

• Message authentication

104 MPS

242,700 MPH

3,140,000 MPD

156 MPS

366,200 MPH

4,730,000 MPD

209 MPS

488,300 MPH

6,310,000 MPD

206 MPS

483,000 MPH

6,240,000 MPD

307 MPS

718,300 MPH

9,280,000 MPD

409 MPS

956,800 MPH

12,360,000 MPD

• Anti-Spam

• Anti-Phishing

• Message authentication

100 MPS

234,600 MPH

3,030,000 MPD

152 MPS

356,800 MPH

4,610,000 MPD

206 MPS

481,500 MPH

6,220,000 MPD

202 MPS

473,200 MPH

6,120,000 MPD

302 MPS

707,200 MPH

9,140,000 MPD

404 MPS

945,800 MPH

12,220,000 MPD

• Anti-Spam

• Anti-Phishing

• KATA protection

• Message authentication

• Content Filtering

100 MPS

233,200 MPH

3,010,000 MPD

149 MPS

348,600 MPH

4,510,000 MPD

200 MPS

467,400 MPH

6,040,000 MPD

201 MPS

470,800 MPH

6,080,000 MPD

297 MPS

693,900 MPH

8,970,000 MPD

349 MPS

817,000 MPH

10,560,000 MPD

• Anti-Virus

• Anti-Spam

• Anti-Phishing

• Link scanning

• Message authentication

80 MPS

186,700 MPH

2,410,000 MPD

120 MPS

281,300 MPH

3,640,000 MPD

160 MPS

375,000 MPH

4,850,000 MPD

160 MPS

374,100 MPH

4,830,000 MPD

238 MPS

557,100 MPH

7,200,000 MPD

315 MPS

737,600 MPH

9,530,000 MPD

• Anti-Virus

• Anti-Spam

• Anti-Phishing

• Link scanning

• KATA protection

• Message authentication

• Content Filtering

79,000 MPS

184,300 MPH

2,380,000 MPD

117 MPS

274,000 MPH

3,540,000 MPD

157 MPS

366,400 MPH

4,740,000 MPD

156 MPS

364,600 MPH

4,710,000 MPD

232 MPS

543,100 MPH

7,020,000 MPD

307 MPS

717,800 MPH

9,280,000 MPD

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