Best Method To Improve SCCM Performance?
Hello Everyone -
I introduced SCCM 2007 R3 to my company's domain a couple of months ago. When I started, I didn't know a thing about it and am teaching myself how to use it more each day.
Our company has 4 primary locations. Each is connected by WAN with about 300-500 workstations at each location. I installed the SCCM server at at my location in Tennessee, then created Site System roles at each of the other locations.
Here's what I'm trying to do: The San Diego location is the other "big" one. I recently installed the SCCM Console on one of their workstations to show them a few things. During installation, I of course entered in the SCCM server in TN to connect to. When they tried to browse it, it was extremely slow to populate collections as well as refreshing everything else.
What should I do? I have already created a new VM in San Diego which will be deicated to SCCM use. Should I make it a secondary site? If so, would that alleviate many of my issues?
I had already started installing SQL on it when I stopped as I found that secondary sites use the primary's database. If that's true, I can't see how the browsing and refreshing speed would improve.
My primary site has Windows 2008 R2 x64 running SCCM 2007 R3 on a beefed up VM running on ESX.
Please advise - Thanks!
I introduced SCCM 2007 R3 to my company's domain a couple of months ago. When I started, I didn't know a thing about it and am teaching myself how to use it more each day.
Our company has 4 primary locations. Each is connected by WAN with about 300-500 workstations at each location. I installed the SCCM server at at my location in Tennessee, then created Site System roles at each of the other locations.
Here's what I'm trying to do: The San Diego location is the other "big" one. I recently installed the SCCM Console on one of their workstations to show them a few things. During installation, I of course entered in the SCCM server in TN to connect to. When they tried to browse it, it was extremely slow to populate collections as well as refreshing everything else.
What should I do? I have already created a new VM in San Diego which will be deicated to SCCM use. Should I make it a secondary site? If so, would that alleviate many of my issues?
I had already started installing SQL on it when I stopped as I found that secondary sites use the primary's database. If that's true, I can't see how the browsing and refreshing speed would improve.
My primary site has Windows 2008 R2 x64 running SCCM 2007 R3 on a beefed up VM running on ESX.
Please advise - Thanks!
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Unfortunately I've never found anything that improves it, and the next version of SCCM has switched from using MMC snapins and so is much faster.
In our organization we address the problem by installing the SCCM console onto our 2008R2 terminal server at the main site (where the SQL server and primary SCCM site is) and the remote offices connect into that via 'Remote desktop'.
Even then the speed is still slow but it is MUCH faster than trying to do it across the WAN.