your reccomendation to buy new serve

server administration XI Server Discussion
1

Hi All,

We have new License to be upgrdared from 6.1a to latest version of business Object .

The following is our License specification :

  • SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Professional for Query, Reporting, Analysis (BOE Pro), 231 named users
  • SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Interactive Viewing, 215 named users
  • SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, 16 named users
  • SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius Enterprise, 20 named users
  • Xcelsius Enterprise Interactive Viewing, 34 named users
  • SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Professional for Query, Reporting, Analysis - Live Office, 12 named users
  • SAP BusinessObjects Polestar, 15 named users
  • SAP BusinessObjects Mobile, 12 named users

our Implementer company recommend us to prepare Server at minimum configuration .

  1. 4 CPU Machine
  2. 32 GB RAM
  3. 3.5 GHz. Processor
  4. 320 HDD
  5. Win 2K3 Server SP2 (Operating System)

What do you think ?

Do you have any other recommendation or notes or problems that we might face and how to be in safe side .

Note: We also might add new users within the next two years to be 350 .

regards,

mmoayed (BOB member since 2004-09-01)

2

A) How many concurrent users are you expecting?
B) Separate your Web Application Server for BOE (such as Tomcat) from your BOE server, by installing your Web Application server on a separate server.
C) Consider using Windows 2008 64-bit as your server OS
D) How many cores will the CPUs have?
E) 32 GB RAM seems very high, but considering Explorer (formerly known as Polestar) I could not say…
F) If you are running Explorer/Polestar against SAP BW make sure you are using the BWA (BW Accelerator) add-in from SAP
G) What about clustering for Fail-over/High-Availability and scaling?

Andreas :de: (BOB member since 2002-06-20)

3

Thank u Andreas.

A) How many concurrent users are you expecting? I think 15-20 .

C) Consider using Windows 2008 64-bit as your server OS We have 2k3
D) How many cores will the CPUs have? dual

G) What about clustering for Fail-over/High-Availability and scaling?
I go back to implementer to ask this

Thank you .

mmoayed (BOB member since 2004-09-01)