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# Planning and Deployment

This section takes you from a downloaded SAM image to a working SAM server: the capacity your host needs, how to [deploy the virtual machine and set up networking](/amie-essentials/planning-and-installation/install-sam-server.md), [logging in](/amie-essentials/planning-and-installation/logging-in.md) for the first time, installing the [license](/amie-essentials/planning-and-installation/install-license.md) and [certificate](/amie-essentials/planning-and-installation/install-certificate.md), and [the SAM license](/amie-essentials/planning-and-installation/sam-license.md) itself.

## Capacity Guidelines

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**Testing environment**

Testing for capacity was conducted on a Vsphere host with an Intel Xeon x5670 processor running at 2.93 GHz. This is a mid-grade host machine. Performance will certainly vary if the administrator loads SAM on a laptop or a less powerful host. Conversely, an administrator might expect slightly better performance from a host with a more robust processor.
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**Capacity guidelines**

This release’s OVF requires 4 processors and 8 GB of RAM. This configuration will handle up to 100,000 devices based on our testing. When approving more than 1000 devices at a time, SAM may display a spinning gear icon until the operation completes. To allow more processing time, increase the heartbeat interval, taking into consideration the number of devices you’re managing and your network and hardware capacity and performance. Keep in mind that a longer heartbeat interval will make it take longer for your configuration changes to be transmitted to your phone fleet.
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## Security Scan

Security concerns plague IT departments everywhere. To address these concerns, Spectralink has implemented security vulnerability scans which identify code areas where critical operations and assets could be at risk. Where risks were found, various mitigation practices were implemented and incorporated into this code version.


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