Learn How to Get Best Performance for SCCM Sites

We always seem to get a lot of questions regarding how to configure Configuration Manager (Best Performance for SCCM) for the best performance.

While we’ve had this information published in TechNet for a while, I thought it would be worth mentioning here. 

Whether you’re setting up SCCM|ConfigMgr for the first time or you have an implementation that’s been up and running for years, you’ll probably find something valuable here:

Best Performance

The topics in this section provide performance recommendations based on testing scenarios based on data processing for a central site, with a maximum number of 200,000 supported clients in a Configuration Manager hierarchy, and 2 child primary sites, with a maximum number of 100,000 supported assigned clients each in a Configuration Manager site.

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For more information about capacity planning for Configuration Manager site systems, see Configuration Manager Site Capacity Planning.

Note : This is not a complete listing of every feature and function implemented during performance testing but rather an example of general performance testing objectives.

For more information about common Configuration Manager performance-related questions and sample configurations, see the technical whitepaper at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113136. 

List of Best Practices of SCCM

• Assigned clients were divided between 2 child primary sites, each supporting 100,000 assigned clients.
• 200 boundaries were defined to manage client site assignments.
• Computer collections for these sites were created, ranging from 1,000 clients to 200,000 clients.
• Client hardware inventory, including asset intelligence data, was collected (for both full and delta inventory report information).
• Client software inventory was collected (both for complete and delta inventory report information).
• Active Directory discovery methods were used both for computers and for users.
• The heartbeat discovery method was enabled.
• Software distribution performance was tested using 100 distribution points with software distribution advertisements targeting 2,000, 60,000, and 200,000 clients.
• Software metering was implemented using 1,000 software metering rules.

Before performance testing began, the Configuration Manager site database was populated with a representative set of Configuration Manager objects to obtain realistic performance metrics.

After the initial Configuration Manager object data was imported into the site database, the database size for each primary site, supporting 100,000 clients, was approximately 40 GB.

To continue reading, see Configuring Configuration Manager Sites for Best Performance.

Resources

• https://www.anoopcnair.com/install-a-new-sccm-management-point-roles/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/configmgr/sum/plan-design/software-updates-best-practices

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Anoop C Nair has been Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for 10 consecutive years! He is a Workplace Solution Architect with more than 22+ years of experience in Workplace technologies. He is Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM and Intune. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security, Career etc…