Getting started with 100,000+ documents

[globalstorm]

In the last 6 months I have been evaluating various CMS apps for a client. We settled on Documentum. The basis setup is 8 servers (4 in use, full HA/Fail Over) with NAS storage. Most of the content is hard copy. It needs to be scanned and brought into the CMS. They also have digital word, pdf, pictures, videos, excel etc.

In general, how will Alfresco deal with geting all the content in?

I presume you have not integrated a scanning solution like Documentum??

Will/does Alfresco require multiple servers for the above specs (say 100 users accessing system)? For example, a separate SQL server? Using SAN/NAS storage.

This client has multiple offices in different locales. Does Alfresco handle repository sync?

Cheers
Kirby

[kevinr]

Hello,

Currently the most efficient way to move content into Alfresco is via FTP, so if you have a large number of documents in folders ready to drop into Alfresco I would use that interface. You can use CIFS (network drive) interface into Alfresco for drag-and-drop but it's not as efficient as FTP access.

You are correct, there is no scanning solution at present for Alfresco.

I would expect a multi (4?) CPU server system with a separate database would be fine for 100 users.

Each client connected to the server can use it's own language/locale. I'm not sure what you mean by repository sync?

Hope this is helpful,

Kevin

[kevinr]

FYI… we have now tested the repository successfully with approx 4 million documents loaded.

Cheers,

Kevin

[ell]

Hi Kevin

Is the above number for the pro or the open source version?

What is the threshold for start using clustering?

Rgs
Lilly

[viraf]

Kevin,

Could you please provide some further details on the environment, tests and performance characteristcs.

Thanks.

[steve]

Hello,

This was using the Open version.
It was using Tomcat and MySQL, on a fairly old Dell server with the following spec:
Dual Xeon 3GHz processors (the load precess is only single threaded so it didn't take advantage of the 2 processors).
3GB Ram - Tomcat configured to use up to 1GB, the rest for the OS and MySQL.
We had all Alfresco services running during import - FTS etc…

The reason we stopped is that we ran out of disk space and had to repurpose the machine for other testing uses.

The load process is an Ant task, and loads a specified directory structure, a specified number of times.

Is this enough info?

Steve