PC system recommendations

I'm currently running the Adobe Creative Suite Production
Studio Premium on an IBM ThinkPad T42. I'm also hoping to add a 3D
application soon - so obviously my current hardware set up is 'less
than ideal.' I'm used to working on a G5 dual 1.8, however
everything at this company is PC based so I'm trying to put
together a system recommendation that can handle the workload
(again, knowing very little about PCs.) Any
recommendations/thoughts/suggestions?

Any current machine will handle it.
A dual-core CPU is certainly best these days, either an Intel
Core-Duo,
a Core2-Duo, or an AMD X2 Dual-Core. My new home machine has
an AMD
64-bit X2 Dual-Core, though the 64-bit is fairly useless as I
don't
believe any applications I use are 64-bit native.
Anything 2 ghz or above should be fine, even though the chip
makers are
trying to pull away from such ratings.
Definitely get at least 1gb of RAM if not more. The more, the
better.
2gb of RAM should be sufficient these days. A lot depends on
the OS too.
I wouldn't get Vista yet if you can avoid it, not only due to
its
'newness' but because of the much larger system specs it
requires. Plus,
not sure what Adobe's status on their product compatibility
with Vista
may be. I know Captivate 2 has problems.
A video card with at least 128mb of RAM. 256+ preferred.
Watch
'integrated' cards as I'm not sure how much RAM they can
address in the
main system, and whatever RAM they can access is removed from
the pool
available to the OS itself. OTOH, if you get a system with
2gb of RAM,
an integrate card may work just fine.
HTH
Erik
speed bump wrote:
> I'm currently running the Adobe Creative Suite
Production Studio Premium on an
> IBM ThinkPad T42. I'm also hoping to add a 3D
application soon - so obviously
> my current hardware set up is 'less than ideal.' I'm
used to working on a G5
> dual 1.8, however everything at this company is PC based
so I'm trying to put
> together a system recommendation that can handle the
workload (again, knowing
> very little about PCs.) Any
recommendations/thoughts/suggestions?
>
Erik Lord
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Edited by: satheesh0812 on Dec 20, 2010 7:13 AM

Hi,
Please identify what are the activities that were taking place which was consuming your space so rapidly.
Analyze if the same activities are going to be performed in future, if so for how many months.
Based on the comparision of present growth trend you can predict future trend and decide. Also analyze which table/tablespace is growing fast and what were its related data files and where are they located, you need to increase that file system to high level rather increasing all file systems sapdata1...4.
Based on gathered inputs you can easily predict future growth trends and accordingly increase your size with additional space of 10%.
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Regards.
Edited by: Sita Rr Uppalapati on Dec 20, 2010 3:20 PM

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[Note: I've edited this post to clarify at the top what my budget is "excluding software." -- Jay]

Harm, Jay,
Thanks for the advice. Now I understand (at least I think, I do) the issues with the raid. (And I mistook the number of SATA drive limitation by the case with the limitation by the board .) I am not going to go for an external RAID enclosure this time, instead I will use the 5 HD solution (one for system, 4 for storage in a RAID 5 configuration) suggested originally by Harm.
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     2. How severe is this load on the CPU?
And this is just a question to educate myself (I do not want to buy a RAID card at this point):
     3. Why are you saying that "...you may no longer have a choice..."? Wouldn't a RAID card support more than my 4 HDs? Could they be internal HDs?
Thank you again,
- Laci.

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NetFlow is exported as UDP packets to a flow analyzer tool - many tools use 9996 or 2055 for NetFlow export
IPSLA requires routers with Cisco IPSLA capability and IPSLA stats is collected via SNMP.
There are tools in the market which can monitor both. We at ManageEngine have NetFlow Analyzer, which supports NetFlow and IPSLA in addition to many more monitoring technologies like Cisco NBAR, WAAS monitoring, Cisco Medianet, etc.
Cisco NBAR is a deep packet inspection technology which analyzes data packets to report on application usage. NBAR can detect applications hiding behind well know ports or using random ports and you can also further use NBAR to define your QoS polcies.
If you need to know more on the software that can monitor these technologies, you can contact ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer support at netflowanalyzer-support 'at' manageengine. com
Regards,
Don Thomas Jacob
www.netflowanalyzer.com
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Buying a new system - Recommendation?

Hey everyone,
I am currently running Photoshop CS3 on a Core 2 Duo with 4GB of ram. I mostly use Photoshop for web editing.
I am currently looking at THIS system from DELL. How do you think this will perform with an upgrade from CS3 to CS5? Anyone have any experience with Photoshop on this particular system?
Dell XPS 15
Windows® 7 Ultimate, 64bit
Core™ i7-740QM
6GB Memory
750GB 7200 SATA HD
NVIDIA GeForce GT 435M 2GB

You are correct. However, one can use the full compliment of RAM on a 64-bit OS, and PS will appreciate that. The same holds true for PrPro and AE, as well, in their 64-bit form. I would definitely try to purchase more than the minimum to run the OS. Win7-64 does use quite a bit. With our older 32-bit OS's and programs, there was the 4GB limit (actually less, but the 4GB was the max for most MoBo's). Now, more can be used easily, and the 64-bit OS will use up more than, say XP-Pro needed, just to run things smoothly.
Also, above a 2x physical HDD setup, one is just separating things like the program, the OS, the Page File (can probably be a smaller size with Win7-64, and lots of physical RAM), the media storage (less access needed with stills, than with Video), and the Scratch Disks. I still feel that a 2x HDD setup will be better, than a 1x, and then more is simply "gilding on the lily."
Good luck,
Hunt

UPL Activated in Managed Systems - Now What?

Hi All,
First post for me in the UPL SCN. I believe I have correctly activated UPL data collection in our managed ABAP Systems. (Followed this link to do so: https://websmp104.sap-ag.de/~sapidb1000358700000427102012E)
I can run the sa38 report /SDF/UPL_CONTROL and it shows that is in on and working. Also report /SDF/SHOW_UPL will show me a bunch of returned data when I click execute. (these are being ran on the abap systems themselves).
My question is, now what? Where do I go inside solution manager to begin seeing if this data is being stored in the SolMan BW? Any insight, work center locations, reports or anything else will help.
Thanks,
Zach

Hi Zach,
activation of UPL in managed system directly is only a workaround and a quick view.
You sahll do this activation from a Solution Manager system. Only then the UPL data will be
transfered to Solman.
Here the UPL data will be
- saved in BW cubes
- aggregated to weeks , months and years
- queries and APIs available to extract data
UPL data is used in
- Custom Code management usage reporting to analyse last usage of given custom codes
- used in SEA tool to generate semi dynamic TBOMs
- used in System recommendation to validate the impact of notes on exdecuted code
- Reverse Documentation to analyse business processes
- and many more
What you have done is the initial technical validation and activation.
But NOW you have prepared the baseline for holistic transparency about usage.
The journey of analysis and data mining starts now.
So it is not the goald to activate UPL. It is more to think about whta is your task and is UPL able to help you.
regards
Björn

SAP WebDispatcher - system requirements & general questions

Hi all,
possibly we would like to use the SAP WebDispatcher as reverse proxy for
our SAP EP infrastructure. Our main goal is to secure accesses from the internet to the sap ep by installing the SAP WebDispatcher in a DMZ.
Could someone give me information about the hardware/system requirements
of the SAP WebDispatcher?
(supported operating systems, recommended CPU / Ram size, is a database necessary (if yes, which is supported))
Is it possible to restrict the requests to the SAP WebDispatcher from only
specific IPs or IP-Ranges?
Just for my curiosity: what's the implementation language of the SAP WebDispatcher.
Are there any important security vulnerabilities known?
Any help is really appreciated
Regards Karin

Hello,
Did you make some research in help.sap.com and sapservice.sap.com and the find button on SDN ? Much of the answers for your questions are there waiting for you to read them !
Anyway,
The supported OS are the same as Netweaver (Linux, Unixes and Windows), both 32 and 64 bit.
The hardware requirements are low, but depends obviously of the number of http requests to process per second. For instance we use a Linux x86 biprocessor blade with 2 GB ram, for a moderate load and the cpu load is lower than 3 %...
There is no database for the sap web dispatcher. what would be its use ??
Yes it is possible to filter IPs or IP-ranges. Check icm/HTTP/auth_xx parameter and http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/b4/9aa8862e714e6db8e74e48e5d3283b/frameset.htm.
For the implementation language, the release information for a web dispatcher 7.0 running on Windows 2003 tells me :
compiled on NT 5.0 2195 Service Pack 4 x86 MS VC++ 13.10
So I guess the language shoul be C++.
Regards,
Olivier

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