We're in the process of rolling out Zen Asset Inventory 7.5. It's going OK, about 600 workstations imported so far. The Collection Server is a 4 proc box, and was quite busy this morning. Once all 2000-odd workstations get in, it's going to be busy a lot more often. We're most likely getting a new server for that role at some point. This is the only CPU-bound product I've seen in a while! Pretty much everything else we run is I/O bound in some way. Kinda nifty.
Which also means that this is not a very virtualization-friendly product. This'll be running bare-iron, thank you.
Which also means that this is not a very virtualization-friendly product. This'll be running bare-iron, thank you.
We are running Zen Asset Manager in a VM and it is purring right along on 3200 workstations.
Thank you for your experience! How long does it take to do an inventory cycle on all of those machines?