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Todd Godchaux's avatar
Todd Godchaux
Brass Contributor
Jun 21, 2017

Maximum deployments MDT can do concurrently?

We have over 4k windows 7 computers to upgrade by January '18. What is the maximum number of upgrades that a single MDT server can handle (aside from hardware limitations - assume a high end and 10g ...
Eduardo Sena - MVP's avatar
Eduardo Sena - MVP
Copper Contributor
Jun 28, 2017

Hi Todd,
this computer are in same location or distributed in various locations?

If these deployments are on same location and you are using MDT with multicasting is possible make several hundred in concurrently deployments.

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    Todd Godchaux
    Brass Contributor
    Jul 11, 2017

    Hello, sorry for the delayed response. Is there anything official documented from Microsoft on this? If not, is there any reliable anecdotal proof out there?

     

    Our MDT server is a single instance for the enterprise in a single location with many networks (10g backbone). We have multicasting turned on (slow,med,fast selected) in WDS. I've noticed that when 15 or more deployments are going, it consumes 95% of network utilization and things get pretty latent usually during the driver injection and .WIM laydown. Also I noticed that each deployment can open a few dozen files per session.