Maximum number of Devices supported

[jhathcock]

What is the theoretical maximum limit of a Jamf Pro Cloud instance? Could the system support say, 50,000 devices across 12 locations? Combination of laptops and iPads. 

Edit: This is to settle a debate and not for practical application. 

[jhathcock]

I am an existing customer. This is not for a practical application, as stated. Its for a theoretical discussion of the viability of managing macOS vs windows in a corporate environment. 

[AJPinto]

I don't think there is a maximum in theory. I am sure the true limit would be in MySQL's record cap which is somewhere around 4 billion records. Even at the cap, they could just run multiple databases. The Servers themselves are scalable, they will just keep adding resources and eventually more servers to the mix. I'd wager you would run out of man power before JAMF runs out of computer power to manage the number of devices.

For conversation at a guess I would put the maximum number of devices around 3 billion leaving 1 billion and change for policies, configuration profiles and other stuff.

[sdagley · Accepted solution]

@jhathcock The https://www.jamf.com/resources/case-studies/sap/ article discussing SAP's Jamf Pro environment appears to be from 2020 at which time SAP had 24,000+ Macs, and there is mention of moving 84,000 iPhones and iPads into Jamf Pro starting in 2018. IBM's Mac deployment with Jamf Pro was over 90,000 back in 2016, but I don't think there are any more recent articles discussing the size of their environment posted.

[jhathcock]

Thanks. This is exactly what I needed.