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Hey All,

I have a network of 14 different sites and over 6000 devices. I am trying to figure out if Spiceworks will be a good fit for my environment. I have mostly read about environments with less than 1000 devices but have not heard of much people running Spiceworks with my amount of devices. I already have a help desk solution so I need it for inventory.

I would also like to avoid setting up multiple remote site installs of Spiceworks but I am not sure if this will be possible.

Does anyone know of or ran into any issues with running Spiceworks with that many devices?

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What makes you averse to having the scanning split to different remote ‘sites’?

Edit: Apologies, I missed the bit about 14 sites!

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there’s nothing better than free and you won’t have anything similar to Spice Works and its community. You’d be surprise how much you start using it beginning with Inventory, next thing you know your setting up your vendors, ordering (at least via email) parts/upgrades etc…

Is it recommended? I say depends on what you expect out of it. If its to log all your inventory then I say yes.

Personally I would say, you need to determine amongst your different sites, whether having a spice works remote collector is enough, or do you need a system that relies on a client that sits locally on the PC and pushes that information out to a collector. I will say I WILL NOT recommend one instance to scan your devices… especially across 14 sites… I don’t think your scans would finish in a reasonable time frame

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I can say with a moderate level of confidence, no it’s not going to work. Certainly not without remote collectors, and maybe not at all. Spiceworks is an awesome tool, but it doesn’t seem to be very well suited for enterprise.

Your central server will need to be a fairly big unit with very fast disk, and plenty of RAM. It should have a very fast CPU, but Spiceworks doesn’t seem to be multi-threaded so many cores is not as important as having the cores you do have be fast. There are a couple different processes that run so multi cpu is necessary, but having 8 or 16 is not.

You should have a remote collector at each of the 14 sites I would think, unless some sites are less than 100 devices. The remote collectors can probably be less spec’d than the central server, especially if scanning less than 1000 devices.

There’s only one way to find out… Install a central server and a couple of nodes and scan a segment of the network. Keep adding segments and nodes until you find the limit or have everything covered!