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ABE (Access Based Enumeration) Scalability ?? Mike M 02-05-2006
Posted by Mike M on February 5, 2006, 9:45 pm
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 (Posted this in another server forum, but haven't had any responses.)

Looking to implement ABE. Seems to work A-OK with the few users that we've
tested with(much like WinCloak by Scriptlogic, without the price tag).

Looking to Migrate a Netware 6.0 server running CIFS over to Win2003SP1 with
ABE. ABE truly makes my life easier!! :)

Wondering if it scales upward...
Has anyone used ABE on file servers with lots of users? Our LAN sees
300-400 users at a time using their home dirs (one server) and shared
folders (a second server). This is an office environment, no heavy-duty
graphics/CAD users at all. Would that many users create CPU bottlenecks in
regards to ABE??


TIA,
Mike




Posted by Eric Voskuil \(MVP\) on February 8, 2006, 12:17 am
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 Mike,

See this document for MS metrics on performance:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/9/8/498EEEEF-97B0-450E-8E56-26105D4B092E/Accessbasedenum.doc

Regards,

Eric


> (Posted this in another server forum, but haven't had any responses.)
>
> Looking to implement ABE. Seems to work A-OK with the few users that
> we've
> tested with(much like WinCloak by Scriptlogic, without the price tag).
>
> Looking to Migrate a Netware 6.0 server running CIFS over to Win2003SP1
> with
> ABE. ABE truly makes my life easier!! :)
>
> Wondering if it scales upward...
> Has anyone used ABE on file servers with lots of users? Our LAN sees
> 300-400 users at a time using their home dirs (one server) and shared
> folders (a second server). This is an office environment, no heavy-duty
> graphics/CAD users at all. Would that many users create CPU bottlenecks
> in
> regards to ABE??
>
>
> TIA,
> Mike
>
>
>



Posted by Mike M on February 8, 2006, 8:41 am
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Thanks Eric. Exactly what I was looking for!

Interesting to note that 15,000 files per folder ABE's performance starts to
nose dive. Conversely, how many people need to have 15,000 files in a
single folder?? I saw a guy keep a couple thousand files in his home
directory, he had no clue on how to organize his data.

Looks like ABE is a keeper. Now it's time to migrate that Netware server.
:)

Thanks!
Mike



> Mike,
>
> See this document for MS metrics on performance:
>
>
http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/9/8/498EEEEF-97B0-450E-8E56-26105D4B092E/Accessbasedenum.doc
>
> Regards,
>
> Eric
>



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