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The following tables provide suggested system requirements based on on-premises gateway performance test results.

Bare Metal Installation

CPU
RAM
Feature Set
Network Throughput
HTTP Transactions per Second
Recommended Active User Number
4 cores, 8 threads
16 GB
Cloud Access Rules only
650 Mbps
5,100
2,200
4 cores, 8 threads
16 GB
Cloud Access Rules with Threat Protection
530 Mbps
4,100
1,700
4 cores, 8 threads
16 GB
Cloud Access Rules with Threat Protection and Data Loss Prevention
310 Mbps
2,300
1,000
12 cores, 24 threads
64 GB
Cloud Access Rules only
860 Mbps
6,700
2,800
12 cores, 24 threads
64 GB
Cloud Access Rules with Threat Protection
760 Mbps
5,800
2,400
12 cores, 24 threads
64 GB
Cloud Access Rules with Threat Protection and Data Loss Prevention
540 Mbps
4,100
1,700

VMware Installation (ESXi 6.5 and 6.7)

Number of vCPU Cores
RAM
Feature Set
Network Throughput
HTTP Transactions per Second
Recommended Active User Number
12
32 GB
Cloud Access Rules with Threat Protection
330 Mbps
2,500
1,800
Note
Note
  • The traffic model was 80% HTTPS traffic and 20% HTTP traffic.
  • 20 Data Loss Prevention templates were enabled and used.
  • The performance indexes dropped about 5% when syslog forwarding was enabled.

Disk Size Estimates

Total User Number
Log Retention Time
Recommended Disk Size
1,000
30 days
275 GB
2,000
30 days
470 GB
5,000
30 days
1,055 GB
10,000
30 days
2,030 GB
Note
Note
The TMWS on-premises gateway keeps logs for up to 180 days. The system will automatically purge logs if disk usage exceeds 80%.