Accedian Skylight Scalability

Sylvain Germe - PeerSpot reviewer
Application and Network Performance Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The scalability of Accedian Skylight is great.

I am using this solution as a contractor and it is typically used by engineers. There are approximately 10 people using this solution at the company I am working at.

I rate the scalability of Accedian Skylight a ten out of ten.

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MW
President at AIP US, LLC

The scalability is very good. You can always add more sites. They charge you by license and the sessions. For example, for the PVX, it's licensed based on data flow.

The solution is not for normal end users. It is more for the Tier 2 or 3 (upper level) support people. There are probably 10 people using it: five from the network side and five from application side.

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MO
Network Architect at a recruiting/HR firm with 501-1,000 employees

When it comes to scalability, there is never enough, of course. I can't put all my servers on it, but it's a lot better. It's an issue at the moment for us. We have now one big box and the changes are not a problem related to Skylight, it's more an issue for our company. When we bought new appliances, most of the servers were not really virtualized yet. Not much time later, we went for a totally new data center and a totally new way of working, where it was becoming mandatory to have it all virtualized.

Now, pretty much all of the servers are virtualized, which is great because if something is down you can just put in on another server, vMotion, and it works fine. But if you don't have Skylight running on each of those servers or some mirror on each of those servers, then you are not capable of capturing all the traffic because the server can at any time change to another server. It's a lot harder at the moment. We have to juggle things with the other teams and make sure we're all on the same page, that they don't move the server at that point in time.

So scalability, at the moment, is pretty bad for us now, because our modus operandi have totally shifted. We now need a more distributed solution, which is something we'll probably look into the future. We are going to need to buy the licensing to get it running on each of those servers, which would be the ideal solution. Another solution could probably be going for a 40-gig port, and maybe an even bigger appliance. But I wouldn't really like it because it would still mean that we would lose quite a large amount of information, such as from what server it is actually coming at the moment.

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DF
Director at PlexNet Pty Ltd

We haven't come anywhere near the performance limits of the tool. You can put multiple VMs to handle multiple flows, so it's ultimately scalable. Skylight sensors with SFPs can be rolled out with as many as you want. It comes down to what your license is. 

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AB
Manager IT Production Service at a maritime company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The scalability is good. With this license, we can deploy 25 probes. Therefore, it is possible to add new probes for scalability.

We don't have a big team. Less than 10 people in the networking team use the solution. Many people can see the data, but less than 10 can use it.

We collect the data for only 10 sites. In the future (maybe next year), we can deploy Skylight onto other sites.

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reviewer1188207 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a media company with 10,001+ employees

Scalability of this solution seems to be generally good.

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VN
Business Development Manager at ISTT

Accedian Skylight is scalable.

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JB
Network Administrator at CHR Citadelle de Liège

The product is very scalable.

We have two internal data centers and two external data centers; one for production and one for the development. We have about 200 access switches. We have Citrix farms and about 200 servers with Windows and Linux. We have a mainframe. It's a large environment.

We have had no issues with scaling.

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BJ
Freelance IT Consultant at SPW (Service Public de Wallonie)

Scalability is our issue. We are collecting more and more data but we are still on mechanical disks. That's why we have decided to go with a new appliance with a local SSD disk. We expect to have better scalability with the new architecture. This is something to keep in mind with the product: The number of flows, the type of disk, and the amount of data.

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BP
Senior Tachnical Lead at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

The solution is scalable.

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it_user192357 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We have not had big changes with our system in recent months.

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it_user184044 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer with 501-1,000 employees

No, no problem at all.

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it_user201624 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

No concerns in particular. The physical machine hosting the product is sized properly for our needs.

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it_user186786 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Information Technology at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

We did not encounter issues with scalability.

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it_user192582 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Systems and Networking with 501-1,000 employees

We encountered no issues with scalability.

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AM
Engineer at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

Product scales well.

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AM
Engineer at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

The product is very scalable.

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