architecture for a new BusinesObjects XI 3.1 server

system · August 6, 2010, 8:14am

Hi all,

My company would like to have a new BusinessObjects server XI Edge standard 3.1. I would like to know what are your recommandations for:

-processor?
-hard disk space?
-RAM?

The CMS and Auditing database will be under Oracle on a DWH server. What space for the database of the CMS/Auditing?

We would like to have a BusinessObjects server for 50 named users.

Thanks for your help,

François

coda (BOB member since 2010-08-06)

system · August 6, 2010, 10:32am

Personally I’d VM one so that I could piss around with all the above at my leisure as it does give you a bit more freedom with processors and such like on a named user model.

RAM will be OS dependant, so either 3.2GB with a 32bit OS or whatever you want with a 64bit OS.

Whilst we aren’t running Edge (we run BOE), we have CPU licence’s so don’t run with VM (Machine specs are an Intel X5560/12GB RAM/about 500GB of disk using windows 2008 64bit). We are using 64bit Tomcat though (so we can give that more memory).

bourner (BOB member since 2005-01-17)

system · August 6, 2010, 6:18pm

I’m going to give you the good old “it depends…” answer.

Depending on anticipated usage here are some ballpark specs for an Edge deployment. Since you only have a single box to work with you want quite a bit of hardware.

Processor: 1 - 4 quad core cpu’s
RAM: 8 - 32 GB
Disk: 250 - 500 GB is probably good

I’d also recommend a VM if that’s possible.

Of course you’ll need a supported 64-bit OS. If you plan to run a bunch of reports at the same time lean towards more cpu. If you plan on having a bunch of users on the system using WEBI, Crystal, Live Office, and Explorer all at the same time then look to 16 - 24 - 32 GB RAM. I doubt you will exceed more than 40 GB with your Filestore anytime soon so 250 GB disk should be ok (it still depends on the size of your reports/content though).

The CMS database shouldn’t really get much bigger than a few hundred MB. The Auditing database can get big fast depending on what you are auditing. I once audited on all auditable events on all services in an Edge XI 3.1 deployment and my auditing database was 10 GB after a month. I guess it’s all relative though.

clarence (BOB member since 2005-11-18)

system · July 8, 2011, 4:02am

Clarence,

We have a similar requirement and ours is a new deployment. Given below are our reporting audience and the server configuration we own currently.

Environment and requirement details:

License Flavor: Edge 3.1 Standard
Licenses - 25 CAL and 8 NUL
User: Since we have 33 licenses we would start with 20. However, we would have approximately 300 users by Q1 / Q2 2012.

Hardware: We have two boxes with the same configuration.

     2 Dual Core Intel Xeon 5503 Processors (2.0 GHz); Total of 4 Cores

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     12 GB RAM (12x1GB)
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     O/S Installed on 136 GB RAID 1 (2 146GB 15K SAS Drives)

     Storage on 272 GB RAID 5 (3 146GB 15K SAS Drives)

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     OS: Windows 2K8 Server x64
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Questions:

Since Edge does not support clustering, do we need to install everything on one machine?
We do have separate db servers, can we use one of those for repository and Audit db? I meant two servers for dev and prod environments?
I am not sure if edge licenses we own would support installing the software on two machines or not? We own two servers now? Any suggestions on how to use them for installing the BI modules?
What are the benefits of using VM for our environment?
Provided our licensing supports installing on multiple server, can we use two boxes for dev and prod as it’s small shop?

Thanks in advance

Sara

Sarap7 (BOB member since 2006-11-29)