Input Requirements

To calculate the scanner capacity, the following details are required:

• Total number of alive IPs to scan
• Scan type (VM, PC, WAS, or MAP)
• Scanner type (Virtual, Physical, Container, etc.)
• Parallel scan settings (number of hosts scanned in parallel, scaling ON/OFF)

For detailed information, see Performance and Parallel Scan Settings
Scanner resources (CPU speed, number of CPUs, memory)

For detailed information, see Scanner Appliance Sizing.