Server Specs for Virtual Environment

robhall wrote:FreeNAS should never exist at the best of times. It certainly has no place here.
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2015/07/the-jurassic-park-effect/http://www.smbitjournal.com/2014/05/the-cult-of-zfs/
Interesting. I'll read those later after I finish the agenda for a meeting I'm having tomorrow. I've ran FreeNAS and Nexentastor in several scenarios over the years and have NEVER had a failure.
Then you've not run into the scenario that makes them risky. :) It's not that they fail "more", it is that they add no value over other options (like FreeBSD) but add some risk or cost (Nexentastor is not cheap at all.)
If no other products existed, they would be fine. The issue is that slightly better, otherwise identical products exist making the NAS OS product type never make sense to deploy.
For example, if FreeBSD itself didn't exist,...

nathansmith6 wrote:
Technology:
Purchase 3 new, identical servers for a VMware HA cluster. Three servers would allow me to take one down for maintenance if needed.Fibre Channel SANSo a few questions and issues here:
Why VMware, this seems like an odd choice today.Why three hosts (this might be an obvious capacity need, but should be checked.)Why HA? Have you done the groundwork for this? HA should be an extremely rare need. This is a red flag not because it is impossible but because it is so unlikely. HA is ruled out as a need due to the SAN. So something is certainly wrong in this case. The two can't go together at this scale.
SAN is, of course, out of the question with only three hosts and of course cannot exists with HA.

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I need to look into a new server to put SLES and GroupWise 2012 on it. I am having trouble finding server specs for this, so I was hoping to get a little advice. GW will be the only thing on this box, one PO with about 150 users. Hoping to build something or purchase something that isn't too expensive due to budget restraints.
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I work for a small non profit organization and we only have one server, never found the need for virtualized servers.
>>> magic31<[email protected]> 3/6/2013 1:46 AM >>>
umchs;2250164 Wrote:
> I need to look into a new server to put SLES and GroupWise 2012 on it.
> I am having trouble finding server specs for this, so I was hoping to
> get a little advice. GW will be the only thing on this box, one PO with
> about 150 users. Hoping to build something or purchase something that
> isn't too expensive due to budget restraints.
>
> Thanks
If this is going to be a dedicated physical setup (you are not planning
to run GroupWise on a virtualised server) you should not need a big
budget to find a decent server for those 150 users.
IMO, a dual core CPU with 4 GB of RAM would seem quite sufficient in
this case. Getting a proper disk controller (with a true hardware raid
handling if you are looking for a raid setup) & decent disks that can
handle the I/O required is important too.
The A brand entry level servers that I've seen easily meat this
requirement. Do make sure it's suitable for 64bit.
In any case, GroupWise 2012 has about the same requirements version 8
would demand.
I'm curious, you are not already virtualising servers?
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Server Specs for a 11.1.1.3 Install Important questions.

I've put together some specifications for a Development Server & Production Server, any comments appreciated. I hope this post acts as a good reference sample for anybody else out there looking to implement a Hyperion Planning.
Client Tier: (2 developers)
Windows
8 GB RAM
Dual Core Processor
Components: EAS client, Smart View, Excel Add-in
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Windows + (not sure which version would be best here, any ideas appreciated)+
Processor: 4 x 3 GHZ, 64 bit
RAM: 8GB
Hard Drive: 32 GB
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Windows (2003 SP1, R2)
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RAM: 16 GB
Disk: 32GB
Components: Essbase Server 64 bit
Server2:
Windows (2003, SP1 R2)
Processor: 2 x3 Ghz
RAM: 8GB
Hard Drive: 32GB
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Server 3:
Windows (2003, SP1 R2)
Processor: 2 x3 Ghz 64 bit
RAM: 8GB
Hard Drive: 32GB
Components: FDM
Database Tier:
4 x 3 GHZ - 8 GB RAM
DISK: 100GB RDBMS
200GB Essbase Storage
The specifications will be similar for the production for abotu 25 - 30 users (10 concurrent), with RAM being a little bumped up.
One important question: I might need guidance on installing 32 bit planning or FDM on the 64 bit server - any known issues with this? Also any known issues with 64 bit Essbase working with 32 bit Planning?
Edited by: EssbaseApprentice on Sep 30, 2010 10:04 AM

obviously its hard to comment on whether it is the perfect spec for your environment, it looks alright to me, it is not under spec.
For the web tier as you are running reporting and analysis and the other machines are windows based personally I would stick with windows 2003.
Is there any reason why you have one machine dedicated just to FDM, seems a bit of an overkill just for one product, it may be worth combining services server 2 with FDM, just a suggestion though
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

Setting up OSX server in a virtual environment

I am looking into setting up OSX server in a virtual environment where the hardware will not be an Apple product. Can this be acccomplished

With the release of OS X 10.10, are there any plans to update the license agreement so that Apple's new version of the OS X Server software can be run on non-Apple-branded hardware? It seems that Apple is willing to change the license agreement between 10.4 and 10.5, so why not change it between 10.9 and 10.10, especially since the OS X client software 10.10 is available as a free download through the App Store, and the OS X Server software is available for $20 through the App Store? It also makes sense to open the software sales market to non-Apple-branded hardware users, unless Apple really is feeling skittish about the professional marketable quality of its newer model computers like the 2014 Mac Pro towards server hosting provider companies. They are using comparable Intel Xeon E5 processors, but not making any effort to market that computer to web hosting providers, and they are certainly not getting their foot in the door by withholding the potential of their OS X Server software by allowing it only to be run on Apple-branded hardware. If Apple gets their foot in the door with server software, they will be in a market for selling their OS X Server software AND their Mac Pro line of server-similar hardware FIVE-FOLD by directly competing with Microsoft's IIS, Linux software developers, AMD hardware developers, and other server hardware and software developers. Intel should be PRODDING Apple to get into the server market, and offering OS X Server for a measly $20 to non-Apple-branded hardware users would essentially STEAL their customers away from them, vastly growing the Apple domain.
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E Business Suite 11i Server Spec for Linux?

Does anyone know, or can suggest possibilities, of a server spec for 11i on Linux. This is for a small company installation of 11i.
Where can I go to ansewer questions like this?
What Linux distributions are supported for 11i?
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thanks
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Jimmy,
Our E-business suite 11i has been running on the application tiers RHEL 4, due to the requirement to support large memory configurations on a 32-bit system. Is it true that from RHEL 5, the “hugemem” kernel which achieves this 32-bit memory scalability has been deprecated in favour of the use of 64-bit kernels?
Your 11i application tier will be limited to 32-bit even if you install 32-bit OS on x86-64 hardware.
Our Oracle 11g database is running on RedHat Linux 5.8. Is E-Business suite 11i (application tiers) certified to run on RHEL 5.8?
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Hi,
I am a prospect Crystal Reports Server customer. I am looking to find out Server Specs for a typical 10 CAL Crystal Reports Server deployment. The information for minimum spec seems to be widely available but not for a Spec for good performance.
Thanks in Advance

My recommendation is to work with an SAP pre-sales consultant who will be able to provide "truer to life" guidelines on RAS sizing. Generally, you're looking to accommodate ~ 30-60 concurrent report events on a single RAS CPU.
Of course, report size (data stored within in, # pages, etc) all get factored into estimating memory requirements and goes back to making use of a pre-sales consultant for this purpose. Additional factors include deploying a multi-RAS configuration and other layouts to optimize your needs. They definitely have what you need - it's a matter of reaching out to them.
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Best Hardware Server Specs for Wsus to run close to 3000 Clients

Hello Team,
I am currently configuring a Wsus server 2012 for my company. I am looking forward to buy a Dell rack server and would like to take your input on what is the best server specs I could go for. I am intending to use a San-box to store Wsus content but still
would need the best spec to run it without any outage. Kindly suggest. Thanks in advance.
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Many Thanks Krish

I am currently configuring a Wsus server 2012 for my company. I am looking forward to buy a Dell rack server and would like to take your input on what is the best server specs I could go for.
This is documented in the WSUS Deployment Guide
System Requirements article.
But the *BEST* specs you could go for would be whatever you can afford to buy .... which may also be gross overkill for a 3000-node WSUS server.
Load tests from 2007 are documented in the
WSUS Capacity Requirements article in the WSUS3 SP1 Deployment Guide. In short, for 3,000 clients you need a 1.5GHz vCPU and 2GB RAM.
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SQL server specs for SAP

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Where can I find the SQL server 2005 Specs for SAP Business one 2007 ?
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Try this link:
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Osx server website for virtualized application

I hope someone can help me.
On my OSX Mavericks server, I have a virtualized tomcat application. There is a Virtualbox instance, running Ubuntu, with bridged network. This means I have a unique IP number for this virtual machine. For tomcat I need to go to port :8080
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You will have two sets of DNS servers, your public DNS and the DNS running on your local network. If your external DNS is getting to your servers, then that's probably working. If you are getting the public IP address from your local network, then your gateway-router needs to "reflect" that address, or you'll need to configure local DNS services (OS X Server needs that in any case) to provide the local IP address for the public DNS name.
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sudo changeip -checkhostname
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You can see what IP address you're getting with the following Terminal.app command:
dig +short oc.example.com
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Your local network clients will want to reference your local DNS server.
Do read the article cited earlier, too.

Project Server jobs going to "Waiting to be processed" state after resolving Error:1053 in virtual environment.

Hi all,
I am using project server 2007 in virtual environment. Before some time, my project server queue service was not starting & it gave Error: 1053. Then server team made some small changes in registry & resolved the problem. After that queue service
was in running condition. But when any job goes into queue, it processed the job first, then after some processing, it goes into "waiting to be processed", and after some time it again starts processing. So, the project server queue is working very
very slow. I restarted queue, event, sql, timer services, but no benefit.
In log it is showing "Queue unable to interact with SQL.".
Please Help....
Thanks.
Thanks & Regards Pradeep Gangwar

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Log Name: Application
Source: Office SharePoint Server
Date: 12-02-2013 10:14:02
Event ID: 7761
Task Category: Project Server Queue
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
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PWA Site URL: http://xyz/PWA
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An unxpected exception occurred in the Project Server Queue. Queue type (Project Queue/Timesheet Queue): ProjectQ. Exception details: CompleteGroup failed.
===========================================================================================================================================================
Log Name: Application
Source: Office SharePoint Server
Date: 12-02-2013 10:14:02
Event ID: 7758
Task Category: Project Server Queue
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: xyz
Description:
Standard Information:PSI Entry Point:
Project User: domain\epmadmin
Correlation Id: a5e020df-ee43-417f-b47c-a1f1142fe2cf
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Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.MSP_QUEUE_PROJECT_GROUP_ARCHIVE'.
===========================================================================================================================================================
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Source: Office SharePoint Server
Date: 12-02-2013 10:14:02
Event ID: 7754
Task Category: Project Server Queue
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: xyz
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Project User: domain\epmadmin
Correlation Id: a5e020df-ee43-417f-b47c-a1f1142fe2cf
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System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_MSP_QUEUE_PROJECT_GROUP_ARCHIVE'.
Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.MSP_QUEUE_PROJECT_GROUP_ARCHIVE'.
==========================================================
Thanks & Regards Pradeep Gangwar

Server Spec 11.1.2

Hi all
Below is the server spec for EPM 11.1.2. I would like to know the impact on memory and space if we have two, three applications instead of One. Can u guys help me ?
100 Users (35 active users) For One Planning App
HTTP Web/J2EE Server Processor      4 X 3GHz
               RAM           8 GB
               Hard Disk     32 GB
Essbase               Processor      4 X 3GHz
               RAM           16 GB
               Hard Disk     32 GB
Other Services (Reporting, ODI Etc)     Processor      2 X 3GHz
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               Hard Disk     32 GB
RDBMS               Processor      2 X 3GHz
               RAM           8 GB
               Hard Disk     100 GB RDBMS Storage
200 GB For Essbase Storage
Many Thanks
Edited by: user8819264 on Sep 28, 2010 1:45 AM

I am not going to really make a judgement on your specs as I don't really think you can do it over a forum it requires much more depth in understanding on how the system would be used.
Though looking at the specs for the essbase server, are you considering storing the data on the local disk, if so I would consider looking at getting more space as you could easily hit that amount if you have a number of large applications on there.
Other than that it looks ok for a number of planning applications, you may have to increase the ram if you are going to have quite a few planning applications running on a 64bit platform and want to include any other products, once again its hard to make judgements and you will probably be fine it is a ok spec.
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John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

Looking for server requirements for Captivate 5

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What is the best VM specs for a 2 Tier SharePoint Environment for 100 users?

We are looking to set up SharePoint Environment 2013 and SQL 2012 on two VMs for around 100 Users. At this point, its to develop a intranet portal for the company to post HR polocies and share info. BI, worlflows, and content management will come later on.
It's a virtual environment running on Hyper V Windows Server 2012 Standard with
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Would the following be okay for the VMs in a production environment?
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SQL VM:
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Hard Drive Space: 150GB
Processor: 64bit, 4 cores.
OR RAM 14GB instead???
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RAM: 4GB ???
Please advise.
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AR
Thank you.

Thanks guys this has been really helpful.
I got another identical server approved so I was wondering if the following specs will do if LOB applications are installed on the SharePoint Infrastructure in the future.
Virtual Machine 1: Web Server + App Server
SharePoint Server:
RAM: 25GB Processor: 64bits. 4-cores Disk space: 160GB
Virtual Machine 2:
SQL
RAM: 20GB Processor: 64bits,4-cores Disk space: 160GB
Would this be overkilling it or should I just increase the RAM to 25GB on the SharePoint Server and leave the SQL as 16Gb?
Just to give an idea the portal consists of 1 corporate site and about 8 departmental sites which is not the concern as the 16GB for SP and 16 GB would be fine (I would assume). I am however concern if the old specs would be okay when the LOB applications,
workflows, BI are installed in the future.
Thanks again,
AR.

Oracle Application Server 10g on a virtual environment

Hi,
Can anyone provide us the Step by Step approch to install Oracle Application Server 10g on a virtual environment on solaris cluster?

HI,
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Here I am providing both documents.
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