Major satellite operator in LATAM will be acquiring Dataminer to handle part of its Spectrum Monitoring Operation. Project BOM has about 30 elements, 16 of those elements are Spectrum Analyzers. End customer is responsible for acquiring Servers for this solution. Questions came up in the last meeting:
Would really a single server ( using EPM Server spec from System Requirements as the reference ) be able to handle these 16 Spectrum Analyzers ( in other words, is there a limitation of the number of Spectrum Analyzer Elements a single Dataminer Agent can handle)? What are the limitation factors that should be taken into consideration to specify the server(s) for this project? Is it OK if Cassandra runs on this same Server or better to put Cassandra on a separate Server?
Thanks in advance!
Hi Luiz,
The DataMiner metrics (https://community.dataminer.services/dataminer-metrics/) don’t give us a limit or benchmark about the number of spectrum elements who can run on one single DMA.
It’s a difficult question because the load on the server of these spectrum elements will be related to how much these elements will be used. I assume that the spectrum elements will not continuous collect and process traces.
To give you an answer, I don’t see immediately a reason why it will not work with one server when I can assume that there will be a reasonable use of the spectrum elements. Of course, I expect that the server will be in line with the (normal) compute requirements (https://community.dataminer.services/dataminer-compute-requirements/).
About the Cassandra database, it’s always better to install the database on a separate server, especially when you expect a lot of data (traces) to store.