Increase Capacity and Resiliency
Single Server Capacity
System Profile |
Email Consists of |
Throughput |
CPU usage |
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300 emails / minute |
50-100% |
*Files that we used for testing have the following sizes. The result may vary depending on data set you select. We strongly recommend to conduct testing based on your organization email statistics. If you need assistance on the tools for testing, contact OPSWAT support.
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DOCX: 220 KB
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PDF: 8 KB
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JPG: 650 KB
Load Balancing Metadefender Email
For Mail Proxy and Hosted deployment, this is desired configuration to increase the resilience and performance.
In order to achieve the following options should be considered.
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Using load balancer (e.g., elastic load balancer, barracuda load balancer)
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Using SMTP failover mechanism on your email gateway (configuration varies depending on the email gateway solution).
Load Balancing (remote) Metadefender Core
This is mainly for onsite exchange deployment scenario. See Multiple Metadefender Core Instances Configuration for further instructions.
Sizing Examples
The following displays two examples in the real production environment. This will provide reference to your sizing and choice of Metadefender package . Neither of the two organizations in the examples experienced latency (more than 100 emails pending for process) in production.
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Number of mail box |
Number of emails / day |
Metadefender Package |
Instances |
Hardware Specification |
OS |
organization A |
5,000 |
35,000 emails |
Metadefender v3 core 20 |
2 |
4 CPU cores, 24GB, 140GB disk space |
Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard 64 |
organization B |
200 |
10,000 emails |
Metadefender v3 core 20 |
2 |
4 CPU cores, 16GB, 100GB disk space |
Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard 64 |