Hi Anyone, asking for your help on the specification of our hardware requirements.
1. What type of Server on SolarWinds (Rack or Tower)?
2. Server model?
3. what type, kind or brand of memory ?
4. Hardrive Model?
Below are the Hardware Requirements that we are going to use to finalize and build our Solarwinds monitoring.
Hardware Requirements
- SolarWinds Latin America recommended to have 4 physical severs.
SolarWinds Physical Servers:
i. Orion Application Server
ii. SQL Database Server
iii. NTA Flow Storage
iv. Additional Polling Engine Server
Orion Application Server:1. Quad Core processor 3 GHz or better 2. 32 GB RAM 3. 150 GB high speed storage (for example, 15,000 RPMs) 4. 1 x 1 GB dedicated NIC 5. Windows Server 2012 R2, 2012, or 2008 R2 The Orion installer installs IIS (32-bit mode) and .NET 3.5 and 4.0 if they are not already on your server.
SQL Database Server:1. Dual Quad Core processor 3 GHz or better 2. 64 GB RAM 3. Hardware RAID Controller (software RAID not supported) 4. Disk Subsystem 1 Array 1: 2 x 146 GB 15,000 disks RAID 1 (mirroring) operating system 5. Disk Subsystem 2 Array 2: 2 x 146 GB 15,000 disks RAID 1 (Pagefile + extra storage) 6. Disk Subsystem 3 Array 3: with 6x 15,000 146 GB or 300 GB disks configured in a RAID 1+0 arrays to allow for maximum write performance. This is for your SQL MDF AND FILEGROUPS 7. Disk Subsystem 4 Array 4: with 4x 15,000 146 GB or 300 GB disks configured in a RAID 1+0 arrays to allow for maximum write performance. This is for your SQL LDF Transaction LOG file 8. 1 GB LAN port 9. Windows Server 2012 R2, 2012, or 2008 R2 Microsoft SQL Server 2014, 2012, or 2008 R2 Standard Edition
NTA Flow Storage Database:Physical server or virtual machine 1. Quad Core processor 3 GHz or better 2. 16 GB3 RAM 3. 100 GB - 1 TB4 of storage capacity on local NTFS disk 4. 1 x 1 GB dedicated NIC Windows Server 2012 R2, 2012, or 2008 R2
Additional Polling Engine Server:Virtual machine recommended 1. Quad Core processor 3 GHz or better 2. 32 GB RAM 3. 150 GB high speed storage (for example, 15,000 RPMs) 4. 1 x 1 GB dedicated NIC 5. Windows Server 2012 R2, 2012, or 2008 R2 The Orion installer installs IIS (32-bit mode) and .NET 3.5 and 4.0 if they are not already on your server.