Hardware requirements for the DBMS and the Administration Server

The following tables give the recommended minimum hardware requirements to a DBMS and Administration Server obtained during tests. For a complete list of operating systems and DBMSs supported, please refer to the list of hardware and software requirements.

Administration Server and DBMS are on different devices, the network includes 50 000 devices

Configuration of the device that has Administration Server installed

Hardware

Value

CPU

4 cores, 2500 MHz

RAM

8 GB

Hard drive

300 GB, RAID recommended

Network adapter

1 Gbit

Configuration of the device that has DBMS installed

Hardware

Value

CPU

4 cores, 2500 MHz

RAM

16 GB

Hard drive

200 GB, SATA RAID

Network adapter

1 Gbit

Administration Server and DBMS are on the same device, the network includes 50 000 devices

Configuration of the device that has Administration Server and DBMS installed

Hardware

Value

CPU

8 cores, 2500 MHz

RAM

16 GB

Hard drive

500 GB, SATA RAID

Network adapter

1 Gbit

Administration Server and DBMS are on different devices, the network includes 100 000 devices

Configuration of the device that has Administration Server installed

Hardware

Value

CPU

8 cores, 2.13 GHz

RAM

8 GB

Hard drive

1 TB, with RAID

Network adapter

1 Gbit

Configuration of the device with DBMS installed

Hardware

Value

CPU

8 cores, 2.53 GHz

RAM

26 GB

Hard drive

500 GB, SATA RAID

Network adapter

1 Gbit

DBMS SQL Server on virtual machine, the network includes 50 000 devices

Configuration of the virtual machine that has SQL Server installed, up to 50 000 devices

Resources Reserved on Hypervisor

Value

CPU

10 GHz

RAM

16 GB

Disk IOPS

150 IOPS

Disk free space

200 GB

SQL Server instance sharing

No sharing

DBMS SQL Server on virtual machine, the network includes 100 000 devices

Configuration of the virtual machine that has SQL Server installed, up to 100 000 devices

Resources Reserved on Hypervisor

Value

CPU

20 GHz

RAM

26 GB

Disk IOPS

150 IOPS

Disk free space

500 GB

SQL Server instance sharing

No sharing

The tests were run under the following settings:

See also:

Main installation scenario

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