IBM BigFix Relay Optimization in Large Environments

The default recommendation from IBM is to plan for Relays to support no more than 1000 clients each. In order to provide a resilient environment that can remain functional with the loss of a Relay, they actually recommend planning for no more than 800 clients per Relay.

Windows Based Relays

• Consider that by default a Windows computer will only accept a limited number of active TCP connections. A web page that talks about this is http://smallvoid.com/article/winnt-tcpip-max-limit.html
• https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/fb7a6ef7-5a70-43a4-b0fe-c0252877467b/concurrent-tcp-connection?forum=winservergen