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Hardware Requirements and Virtualisation Environments
The following examples are showing typical configurations. Which configuration to choose in a project depends on several factors:
- number of different types of sub-systems
- number of data points per sub-system
- failover configuration required or not
- multiple data centres or not
- operating system requirements of integrated sub-system plugins
The configurations can also be mixed, changed and grow with the project phases. Example: a POC installation can start at entry level and later grow to enterprise with multiple data centres.
Entry Level
In this configuration all software components are running on one physical server platform. There is no virtualisation environment and it is a basic configuration which is often used for POC installations or demonstrations.
Physical Server Hardware Requirements
| CPU | Quad core, Intel Core i7, 10th Gen. or higher OR equivilant AMD |
| Graphics (optional*) | Nvidia graphics (GeForce 10 series or higher with >= 1 GB RAM) OR Intel integrated graphics OR AMD integrated graphics |
| RAM | >= 8 GB RAM (16GB RAM recommended) |
| HDD/SSD | >= 50 GB free disk space excl. OS (SSD recommended) |
[*]: no GPU in server: 3D GIS visualization when running applications not possible; client workstations are not affected
Remark: this is a recommendation for most common configurations; please consider the points mentioned above or contact FAST Support
Server Software Requirements
| OS | Windows 10, 64 bit or later Windows Server 2019 or later |
| Docker Engine | Version 20.10.0 or later |
| Database | MySQL version 8.0 or later MariaDB version 11.0 or later |
Storage Requirements
Amount of storage depends on the number of incidents, the content of incidents and the retention time. As a benchmark we calculate 0.5-2MB per incident.
Business Level
This configuration is using hardware virtualisation. The physical hardware platforms are decoupled from the virtual machine servers. A failure of one physical server hardware will not result in a failure of software processes running on the virtual machines.
Physical Server Hardware Requirements
| CPU | 4 cores per Management Server VM 4 cores per Process Server VM 2-4 cores per Communication Server VM 4 cores per DB Server VM 2-4 cores per Acquisition Plugin VM |
| Graphics (optional*) | Nvidia graphics (GeForce 10 series or higher with >= 1 GB RAM) OR Intel integrated graphics OR AMD integrated graphics |
| RAM | >= 8 GB RAM per VM |
| Storage | >= 250 GB per VM 500GB..5TB Database storage for incidents and processes |
Remark: this is a recommendation for most common configurations; please consider the points mentioned above or contact FAST Support
Server Software Requirements
| OS Windows | Windows 10, 64 bit or later Windows Server 2019 or later |
| OS Linux | Ubuntu version 18.04 or later Debian version 8 or later Red Hat version RHEL 8 or later CentOS version 6 or later |
| Docker Engine | Version 20.10.0 or later |
| Virtualisation | VMware: vSphere/ESXi version 7.0 or later (incl. vCenter) Proxmox VE 8.1 or later |
| VM | 4 cores, 4GB RAM or more |
| Database | MySQL version 8.0 or later MariaDB version 11.0 or later MS SQL Server version 2016 or later[*] |
[*] if already existing in project or requested by customer; MS SQL does not work as docker image and not under Linux
Storage Requirements
Amount of storage depends on the number of incidents, the content of incidents and the retention time. As a benchmark we calculate 0.5-2MB per incident.
Enterprise Level
For hardware, software and storage requirements please refer to previous chapter: Business Level
