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In general, CAVA has better performance than ICAP. The following sections compare the performance between CAVA and ICAP in a PowerScale cluster.
The performance results may vary depending on the PowerScale model, total number of nodes, anti-virus application vendors, size of the CAVA or ICAP servers, workload, file size distribution, and other factors. The following example only gives an overall idea of what the CAVA performance looks like and how it compares with ICAP.
The following sections cover the following: