Performance Scalability and Reliability data

This topic provides information about performance, scalability and reliability test results for PATROL for Microsoft Windows Servers components.

Minimum hardware requirements for Microsoft Hyper-V

The following table lists the hardware configuration that was used for running the performance and scalability tests. 

Platform

Configuration Item

Value

Windows Server 2012 R2

CPU

2  CPU

RAM

4 GB

Type

64 bit

Scalability and sizing best practices

The following tables provide information about the tested configuration scenarios. It also provides the information on the PATROL Agent performance and the application performance with respect to CPU utilization, memory and threads in 64-bit Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2:

PATROL for Microsoft Hyper-V 5.1

Consider the following requirements to set up Hyper-V to achieve the best performance:

Total Instances

Parameters

PATROL Agent

HyperVMon

Memory (MB)

CPU (%)

Thread Count

Memory (MB)

CPU (%)

Thread Count

17573

71576

246.9

11.415

7

167.39

35.62

25

Minimum hardware requirements for Microsoft Cluster

Following table lists the hardware recommendation for tested configuration scenarios in Windows Server 2012 R2, 64-bit. 

Platform

Configuration Item

Value

Windows Server 2012 R2

CPU

2  CPU

RAM

4 GB

Type

64 bit

PATROL for Microsoft Cluster Server 2.0

Consider the following requirements to set up clusters to achieve the best performance:

Number of Clusters

Total Instances

Parameters

PATROL Agent

MCSCluster

Memory (MB)

CPU (%)

Thread Count

Memory (MB)

CPU (%)

Thread Count

30

1417

2843

55

7

13

55

3

80

Performance and scalability metrics for remote monitoring

The following table lists the metrics based on 4 processors and 4GB of RAM for 125 remote hosts monitored without the Event Log KM for 120 hours on the Windows 2008 R2 operating system.

ProcessAverage CPU (in %)Average memory (in MB)Network
 AverageMaximumAverageMaximum

In (Kilo Bytes

per second)

Out (Kilo Bytes

per second)

PATROL Agent15.5243506007542
psx_server_remote.xpc2.618120150

The following table lists the metrics based on 4 processors and 4GB of RAM for 75 remote hosts monitored with the Event Log KM for 120 hours on the Windows 2008 R2 operating system.

ProcessAverage CPU (in %)Average memory (in MB)Network
 AverageMaximumAverageMaximum

In (Kilo Bytes

per second)

Out (Kilo Bytes

per second)

PATROL Agent92465080030090
psx_server_remote.xpc2.618225260


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