2.1.5 Sizing guide

The following information can be used as a guideline when deploying MataDefender Email Gateway Security in your organization. Since there are many factors that may affect performance, these test results should not be viewed as performance guarantees.

Factors that may affect performance

  • Package and configuration

    • set of engines (which and how many)

    • configuration (e.g. CDR is enabled)

  • System environment

    • profile (CPU, RAM, Storage)

  • Traffic characteristics

    • average attachment number/size/type

Test results

Performance is measured by the number of processed emails in one hour interval. In the test scenarios below, the traffic was generated by using real-world attachment number/attachment size/attachment type distributions. In all cases, MetaDefender Email Gateway Security was deployed as an SMTP Proxy. For test cases with CDR enabled, CDR was allowed for all possible file types.

Results

CPU cores

Memory (GB)

OS

Engine package

Duration

Processed emails

4 @2.1 GHz

16

Windows Server 2016

4 engine package + Data sanitization + DLP + Yara

1h

6 000

8 @2.1 GHz

16

Windows Server 2016

4 engine package + Data sanitization + DLP + Yara

1h

8 000

16 @2.1 GHz

16

Windows Server 2016

4 engine package + Data sanitization + DLP + Yara

1h

8 000

8 @2.1 GHz

16

Windows Server 2016

4 engine package + Data sanitization + DLP + Yara

1h

9 000

16 @2.1 GHz

16

Windows Server 2016

4 engine package + Data sanitization + DLP + Yara

1h

11 500

8 @2.1 GHz

16

Windows Server 2016

8 engine package + Data sanitization + DLP + Yara

1h

6 500

16 @2.1 GHz

16

Windows Server 2016

8 engine package + Data sanitization + DLP + Yara

1h

8 000

8 @2.1 GHz

16

Windows Server 2016

8 engine package + Data sanitization + DLP + Yara

1h

7 500

16 @2.1 GHz

16

Windows Server 2016

8 engine package + Data sanitization + DLP + Yara

1h

12 000

On-site Exchange deployment

In case of on-site Exchange deployment scenarios the resource needs of the Microsoft Exchange Server must also be taken into consideration.