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Resources - at what point to upgrade HW?

Louis-M

At what point would you look at upgrading hardware on SG UTM's assuming you can't offload any functions?

eg memory usage constantly @ 30% etc, CPU @ 10% ??



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    Depends on what complaints are coming in...

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  • 0 in reply to BAlfson

     Lets say no complaints or nobody has bothered to complain. But when would you start to become concerned or suspect that things may start to struggle a little?

  • 0 in reply to Louis-M

    I don't think there's a rule of thumb for this. My personal experience is: constant and increasing swap usage + high CPU usage peaks = time to upgrade hardware. Swap usage starts getting high with 65%+ memory usage, so that would be a troubling warning sign for me. This was very common for older UTM hardware, but I don't think you'll see such issues with a SG hardware, unless it's been (very) wrongly sized to your environment.

    Regards - Giovani

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  • 0 in reply to Louis-M

    I don't think there's a rule of thumb for this. My personal experience is: constant and increasing swap usage + high CPU usage peaks = time to upgrade hardware. Swap usage starts getting high with 65%+ memory usage, so that would be a troubling warning sign for me. This was very common for older UTM hardware, but I don't think you'll see such issues with a SG hardware, unless it's been (very) wrongly sized to your environment.

    Regards - Giovani

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