Best Practices for Site System Design

When planning and designing a Configuration Manager 2012 site hierarchy, you also need to place your site system roles on the right server. Depending on the role and the size of the site, the role can consist of other roles on one or more site servers. This section will provide information about some best practices for capacity planning of Configuration Manager 2012. 

Capacity Planning of Configuration Manager2012Table  lists the maximum recommendations for planning and designing your Configuration Manager 2012 infrastructure. The actual figures depend on your available hardware, your network infrastructure, and also on your demands.

Site System	Number	Description
Clients	400,000	This is the maximum number of clients supported for the entire Configuration Manager 2012 hierarchy.
Primary site	25	A Central Administration Site supports up to 25 child primary sites.
Primary site	100,000	A primary site supports up to 100,000 clients.
Secondary site	250	There is a maximum of 250 secondary sites per primary site.
Secondary site	5,000	A secondary site can support communications from up to 5,000 clients.
Management point	10	A primary site can support up to 10 management points.
Management point	25,000	One management point can support up to 25,000 clients.
Distribution point	4,000	A distribution point is capable of supporting up to 4,000 clients.
Distribution point	250	A site can hold up to 250 distribution points.
Pull distribution point	2,000	Each primary and secondary site supports up to 2,000 pull distribution points.
PXE-enabled distribution points	250	Up to 250 PXE-enabled distribution points are supported per primary site.
Software update point	25,000	If the software update point runs on the WSUS server and other site roles coexist, the software update point supports up to 25,000 clients.
Software update point	100,000	If the software update point runs on the WSUS server and no other site roles coexist, the software update point supports up to 100,000 clients.
System health validator point	100,000	The system health validator point in Configuration Manager 2012 supports up to 100,000 clients or one per hierarchy if fewer than 100,000 clients.
Fallback status point	100,000	The fallback status point in Configuration Manager 2012 supports up to 100,000 clients or one per site.
Application Catalog  website point	400,000	One Application Catalog website point supports up to 400,000 clients, but for better performance, plan for 50,000 clients per point.
Application Catalog web service point	400,000	One Application Catalog web service point supports up to 400,000 clients. Best practice is to place the website point and web service point on the same server.
Packages and applications per distribution point	10,000	Per distribution point supports up to 10,000 packages and applications.