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This document provides sizing guidelines for McAfee Web Gateway appliances and blades. It lists the maximum bandwidth, request capacity, employee counts, and hardware specifications for various appliance models. It recommends using requests per second for sizing as it accounts for both network traffic and application load. It notes performance may decrease by up to 40% for VMware deployments. Licensing is based on the number of users or blade instances.

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Ms-Sizing-Guide-Web-Gateway 7.4.2 Appliances

This document provides sizing guidelines for McAfee Web Gateway appliances and blades. It lists the maximum bandwidth, request capacity, employee counts, and hardware specifications for various appliance models. It recommends using requests per second for sizing as it accounts for both network traffic and application load. It notes performance may decrease by up to 40% for VMware deployments. Licensing is based on the number of users or blade instances.

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Sizing Guide for forward proxy scenarios

McAfee Web Gateway version 7.4.2 Appliances

This document illustrates a subset of the configuration and sizing options for McAfee Web Gateway. If detailed technical sizing is required, please contact your McAfee channel sales engineer or
representative. This document will be updated for Main releases of McAfee Web Gateway only.

Appliance Capacity Hardware Specification


2
Model # Max. Internet Web Traffic Employee CPU x Memory Storage Web Network Rack Power Remote
1 1 1
Bandwidth (Mbps) (Requests per sec) Count Cores / (GB) (GB) Cache Interfaces Space Management
Threads (GB)
2 x 500
WBG-4500-C 80 21 1000 260 10000 2600 1x2/4 32 203 4 x 1 GbE 1U S RMM4
(RAID 1)
2 x 600
WBG-5000-C 130 32 1600 400 16000 4000 1 x 6 / 12 96 248 4 x 1 GbE 1U R RMM4
(RAID 1)
6 x 300
WBG-5500-C 410 140 5000 1700 50000 17000 2 x 10 / 40 128 383 4 x 1 GbE 1U R RMM4
(RAID 10)
2 x 300 2 x 1 GbE LoM,
G8 Blade 310 100 3800 1200 38000 12000 2 x 8 / 32 16 188 half-height R iLO4
(RAID 1) 4 x 1 GbE add-in
The sizing data shown implies an appliance running at 60% of its maximum capacity and SSL scanning enabled at 10%. The anti-malware configuration is set to Layered Coverage, combining the
strengths of the Gateway Anti-Malware engine with the value added by the third-party Avira engine.
McAfee’s preferred value for sizing Web Gateway is the number of requests per second, which takes both network traffic (up to Layer 4) and the application load (Layer 7) into consideration. This is
important as McAfee Web Gateway operates at Layer 7 and is not just looking at data packets. The number of requests per second can usually be obtained from an existing proxy solution. If no
existing proxy solution or other technology is available to supply this data, the bandwidth for web protocols can usually be obtained from a firewall or router. When using bandwidth for sizing, it is only
necessary to take related traffic into consideration, not the overall bandwidth of the external connection.
Calculations based on the number of users can vary considerably between different organizations. For example, the volume or request rate of an e-commerce company with 1000 users is likely to differ
from that of a retail chain company with the same number of employees. McAfee Web Gateway appliances are licensed based on the number of users. Please use the quoting handbook or contact
your McAfee representative for a definition of users or which SKU should be used. The Content Security Blade Server offers licensing per blade instance regardless of the user count.
McAfee Web Gateway does not require specialized standalone policy management instances, as Central Management is a built-in function of the product. This also applies to anti-malware, data loss
protection (DLP), and URL filtering.
VMware performance is not factored into this sizing information. VMware deployments may experience up to 40% decrease in performance. For example, a virtual WBG 5500-C with URL Filter and
Anti-Malware enabled might only serve 1700 req/sec x 0.6 = 1020 req/sec or 140 Mbps x 0.6 = 84 Mbps. Contact your McAfee channel sales engineer or representative for VMware-based sizing.

1 URL Filter only URL Filter + Anti-Malware

2 S = single, R = redundant
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