McAfee EPOCDE-AA-BA Product Guide - Page 21

2 Planning your ePolicy Orchestrator configuration Getting started using your ePolicy Orchestrator server requires planning and consideration with regard to infrastructure and configuration. How you setup your server infrastructure, and how you much configuration you need to perform depends on the unique needs of your network environment. Considering these areas in advance can reduce the time it takes to get up-and-running. Contents About scalability Server configuration overview About scalability How you manage your scalability needs depends on whether you use multiple ePolicy Orchestrator servers or multiple remote Agent Handlers. With ePolicy Orchestrator software, you can scale your network vertically or horizontally. • Vertically scalability - Adding and upgrading to bigger, faster hardware to manage larger and larger deployments. Scaling your ePolicy Orchestrator server infrastructure vertically is accomplished by upgrading your server hardware, and using multiple ePolicy Orchestrator servers throughout your network, each with its own database. • Horizontal scalability - Accomplished by increasing the deployment size that a single ePolicy Orchestrator server can manage. Scaling your server horizontally is accomplished by installing multiple remote Agent Handlers, each reporting to a single database. When to use multiple ePolicy Orchestrator servers Depending on the needs of your organization, using multiple ePolicy Orchestrator servers might be required. Some scenarios in which you might want to use multiple servers include: • You want to maintain separate databases for distinct units within your organization. • You require separate IT infrastructures, administrative groups, or test environments. • Your organization is distributed over a large geographic area, and uses a network connection with relatively low bandwidth such as a WAN, VPN, or other slower connections typically found between remote sites. For more information about bandwidth requirements, see the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Hardware Usage and Bandwidth Sizing Guide. Using multiple servers in your network requires that you maintain a separate database for each server. You can roll up information from each server to your main ePolicy Orchestrator server and database. McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® 4.6.0 Software Product Guide 21