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Offload Kbox services / Replicas

I've seen that I can setup remote site replications, but in my environment I don't think that solution will really work best.  Is it possible to just offload a service such as the KACE updates to another appliance to reduce the load on my kbox 1000?  If I setup a few replicas on additional hardware here at the main office where my kbox is located will they balance their work load or would I need to set machines from different subnets to checkin to a specific server?

I've got 6300 machines connecting back to a single kbox, when I use all of the services it's causing major slowdowns... Each of my 30 remote locations have a 1gb backbone back to the main office where the kbox is located, bandwidth is not an issue for me.  Replicas might work, but many of the remote location have no servers or hardware that I can dedicate as a replica.

Thanks for any thoughts!
Posted 9 years ago 2297 views

Comments

  • Wow 6.3k machines! We only have 1k and have brought our machine to a crawl. I would imagine your MIs, Scripts, and Patching must be well thought out and coordinated.

    Regarding remote location hardware, could you ship out some repurposed units to serve as replicas?

    Have you ever considered a Dell hosted (in the cloud) kbox? Not sure if this would resolve the major slowdowns. - Jbr32 9 years ago
  • We have ~30k machines connecting to a single K1 so what you're experiencing should be fixable. When you say "all of the services" what exactly does that mean? What services are you running simultaneously? - nheyne 9 years ago
  • well, Replication shares really only shrink the need of bandwith. They are designed as local storage where the clients get their stuff.
    Depending on what you are doing with your KBox it would be interesting to analyze how you configured it. Also if it is a physical or virtual box. The virtual appliance has by default a tight hardware need (4GB RAM, 2 CPU cores) which is a bit small for a 6.3k environment.

    Also the checkin settings, scripts etc are interesting.
    Check the munin output (k1000/munin) for possible problems. (if you see, ok, at 12:00 when all my scripts are running, the box is slow you can decide to run some scripts at other times)

    You easily can connect the K1000 database for reporting from remote (which means that the whole reporting is running outside the box)
    https://support.software.dell.com/k1000-systems-management-appliance/kb/114992 - Nico_K 9 years ago
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