Hi Folks, could you help with the cloud questions below or point to the right resources?
- Does Dataminer have their own guide specific to hosting their services on AWS and/or Azure?
- Does Dataminer support using Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) as an alternative to maintaining Cassandra clusters on EC2 instances?
- What type of connectivity will we need for on-premise resources (locations, bandwidth requirements, etc)?
Thank you
Hi Silvino,
As far as I know, there aren’t any guides available on hosting DataMiner in AWS or Azure.
In general, you need to spin up a number of cloud servers running windows server, where you can install DataMiner. These servers need to match the specs highlighted in the requirements document.
Currently, there is no support for AWS Keyspaces.
To run your Cassandra cluster in AWS, you need to spin up EC2 instances running Linux where you install Cassandra.
For the indexing engine, you can use the AWS ElasticSearch service (more details here).
The bandwidth needed between your cloud servers and your on-premises equipment largely depends on how much equipment and data sources you have integrated into your system and the amount of data they expose.
If you have an existing DataMiner system, you could check the bandwidth that’s currently used to have a baseline.
There is also an interesting thread on bandwidth requirements available here and some documentation can be found here.
Thank you
Note: Azure has also a service for Cassandra in the cloud (Azure Managed Instance For Apache Cassandra). From DataMiner version 10.2.3 this will also be an option.