Re: Trying to decide on hardware for Nessus

["Doug Nordwall" <raleel@gmail.com>]

nessus threads out like mad on my boxes. My educated guess is that it'll work well on that sort of server. I was just thinking I would upgrade mine to the most cores I could come up with. getting a new sun like that might be just the trick

On 12/21/06, Zate Berg <zate75@gmail.com> wrote:

I am trying to decide on a Sun Server (current supported platform here at work) to run Nessus on.  Will be running Solaris 10 aswell.

Whats the consensus on something like their T2000 server?  Its a single proc, 8 core, 32 Threads server.  Will nessus thread nicely on that?  I know its only single proc but its 8 cores, each core has 4 threads so in effect its almost like having 32 single thread procs.

Should I be looking for multiple processors more than multiple threads per core/proc ?  Sun offers a bit of both.

What kinds of hardware are people running Nessus on?  I am looking to scan a very large environment, generally from a central location that has full visibility to everywhere in the network.

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Zate
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Doug Nordwall
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