Hi all,
If a DMA is struggling in terms of CPU and we’re considering rebuilding the VM on the latest hardware, what CPU aspects are recommended? I already read on the website that 16 cores and 32 GB are recommended for 250 elements and also for Cassandra. However, I know that most of the applications/services in DataMiner support multithreading. Should we consider clock speed when purchasing new hardware, or not?
Additionally, for future plans, if we want to integrate ElasticSearch and transition to a Cassandra cluster (instead of a standalone architecture), what server specs are recommended? We have 1000 elements in one DMA, and provided they are not resource-intensive, what would be the ideal hardware configuration?
Hi Syeda,
Clock speeds on all modern processors should be sufficient, the most important aspect is indeed the number of vCPUs to ensure enough logical threads can be run simultaneously.
For the hardware specs we list the Compute Requirements on our docs.
Given a single DMA with a 1000 elements, there's not enough info available to determine how the clustered database should be architected, as there may be additional requirements when it comes to redundancy.
For a deep dive on this, I would suggest reaching out to your contacts at Skyline to get you in touch with our infrastructure specialists.
That said, I would also like to highlight an alternative here. As managing self-hosted database clusters comes with overhead and complexity, especially if this would be for a single DMA. You could consider Storage as a Service as the next step in your future plans and avoid the need for hardware investments for hosting these database nodes yourself.