Scaling Up

When planning your MSMQ enterprise, consider your companies potential growth, and possible increased use of MSMQ. By carefully selecting your MSMQ hardware, and correctly installing your MSMQ enterprise, you can decrease the effort needed to later increase the scale of your MSMQ enterprise.

As your use of MSMQ increases:

PSCs and BSCs need more disk space to store MQIS data (sites, CNs, computers, and queues)
MQIS activity increases as more queues are created and deleted and other objects are modified more often.
Messaging traffic increases

You can minimize effort needed solve these problems by installing the PEC and PSCs on computers that can be expanded to provide more computing power and network requests. When you determine you need to increase your message queuing capacity you can:

Upgrade the PEC and PSCs CPUs and add additional network adapters.
Installing additional BSCs to provide load balancing for MQIS queries.
Installing InRSs, OutRSs, and site gates to steer network traffic into wider-bandwidth network links. However, to avoid single points of failure in your MSMQ enterprise, configure independent clients to use multiple InRSs and OutRSs, and configure sites to use multiple site gates.