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title: Service Protection Performance
slug: ps/help/en_us/vtm/userguide/service-protection-performance
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createdAt: 2026-08-02T07:48:41.400Z
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The Virtual Traffic Manager’s service protection system requires additional memory and CPU time for each request. If you are managing a large number of requests and use sophisticated rules in your service protection class, every request for a virtual server using this service protection class will take slightly longer. For large systems it may be necessary to add further Virtual Traffic Managers to your front-end network in order to provide additional capacity.