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Just wondering if there’s a recommended number of hosts/devices that each Spiceworks VM can handle scanning.

We have our main server setup that hosts the Help Desk and then 3 Remote Scanner VMs that report back to it. So far I’ve only been scanning our servers but I want to also scan our laptops. I don’t know if I should add our laptop subnets to the main Scanner machines or if I should put them on a new VM or two or what.

Any official recommendations about this sort of thing anywhere?

Thanks.

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SW was designed for less than 1000 devices, so long as you are not over this level you will be fine.

Other users have scanned larger numbers with success but it was designed for smaller numbers and for SMBs

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how many devices do you have?

there have been reports of quite a few thousand

but depends on how beefy is your server thats running it

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If you’re using remote sites to balance the load, you should be fine. Under 1000 is ideal per system, but it really depends on scan schedules and other things that put load on the system - sometimes you can have more and sometimes a lot of Spiceworks usage may dictate less. The system won’t fall over, but it might be slow if you have too many.

Jackie.

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We only have a few hundred servers and a few hundred workstations but these are Spiceworks VMs doing the scanning. When we tried to do it as one big VM the thing scanned forever and never got done scanning. We split it out so that each one didn’t have to do as much. I’ll add one workstation IP range to each of the servers and see what I get. :slight_smile: