We are strongly considering the McAfee Gateway solution, and we are getting ready to demo it, but I am curious what type of utilization other customers are seeing when using the VM Appliance on their own VMWare host. I would GREATLY appreciate any input regarding the following, or other thoughts:
What do you have your gateway VM speced out at for CPU and RAM?
What is your avg utilization during the day for:
CPU
RAM
I/O
Network
How many users are you filtering through the VM and what type of avg bandwidth?
We are only looking to make the call between going th VM route vs the hardware appliance, not looking to discount McAfee based on the VM utilization. We have a number of mission critical VMs on the host, and my main concern is the I/O and the network traffic to the gateway VM causing degradation to the other VM's on the host. The CPU/RAM specs are important for truly determining if we can allocate the resources for this VM, but at the end of the day, they can always be capped, where you are much more likely to run into issues affecting other VM's with I/O or LAN utilization.
Thanks!
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