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IfyourViewManagerdeploymentislikelytousemorethan800concurrentclient
connections,youshouldincreasethenumberofavailableephemeralports.
Tosupportalargenumberofconcurrentclientconnections,youcancalculatethe
optimalnumberofephemeralportstoconfigureoneachViewConnectionServer
instance.
To calculate the number of ephemeral ports
Use
thefollowingformula.
number of ephemeral ports = ((5 * clients) / servers ) + 10
Where
clients=projectednumberofconcurrentclientconnections
servers=numberofViewConnectionServerinstancesinreplicatedgroup
Forexample,youmightplanadeploymentmanagedbythreeViewConnectionServer
instances.Ifyouanticipatehaving3,000concurrentclientconnections,youwouldneed
5,010ephemeralports,asshown
inTable 21.
Usethe“WorksheettoCalculateEphemeralPortsandTCBHashTableonpage 45to
fillinvaluesforyourdeployment.
YoucanedittheWindowsregistrytoincreasethemaximumnumberofephemeral
portsontheWindowsServercomputeronwhichViewConnectionServerruns.Asa
prerequisite,
calculatethenumberofephemeralportstoconfigure,asshownin
Table 21.
To increase the number of ephemeral ports
1OntheWindowsServer,starttheWindowsRegistryEditor.
a SelectStart>CommandPrompt.
bAtthecommandprompt,typeregedit.
Table 2-1. Example: Calculating the Number of Ephemeral Ports
Configuration Parameter Sample Values
Projectednumberofconcurrentclientconnections 3,000
NumberofViewConnectionServerinstancesinreplicatedgroup 3
((5*clients)/servers)+10=numberofephemeralportsoneach
ViewConnectionServer
(5*3,000)/3+10=5,010