[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Limits

[Miroslav Suchý]

On 01/07/2011 12:11 AM, Nicolas Antonio Corrarello wrote:
> Guys,
> Have anyone tested Spacewalk on large enviroments (4000+)? I mean, is
> there any documented limit? Or have any of you found any performance
> issue scaling with Spacewalk?

Yes and No.
We have no report about such big installation of Spacewalk. But I can
say that we have users with 20 000+ servers.
In fact I'm very very sure (I'm not sure if I can go in more details),
that it can manage 1 000 000+ servers.

Of course for such large environments you will need standalone database
(not XE edition), a lot of CPU and especially a lot of RAM.
We recommend to deploy one RHN Proxy per every 5000 registered systems
to offload traffic from Satellite.
If you want to use monitoring, then I would recomend to use more Proxies
as Monitoring Scouts and not running Scout on Satellite Server.

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Miroslav Suchy
Red Hat Satellite Engineering