Server Specification

[nickboyle]

I am currently evaluating the Alfresco product. I am interested to learn from anyone what processing / ram / io recommendations there are:

Example of a small scale solution would be 1000 users.
Large scale solution would be 5000 users plus.

Primery platform would be Solaris 10 O/S, Oracle 10g database, Liferay Portal or TomCat portal. single implementation.

Need to understand what number of cpu's, ram is recommend and an indication of I/O throughput.

[heislord5]

well,

Just from what the Alfresco guys have been saying, you want a lot of CPU.  If investing in CPU or Memory, more CPU.

Also, a lot of people seem to be saying they have better luck with MySql than Oracle, although Alfresco says Oracle is first class now.

[loftux]

Can this be a start?
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Repository_Hardware

Also have a check at
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Server_Benchmarks
So you can do your own testing.

/Peter Löfgren

[nickboyle]

Thank you Peter for the information. The repository_hardware is a good start.

Can you also advise, in your experience as an Alfresco partner whether Oracle or SQL is the best solution for maximum results. By maximum results as an example:
100gb database
5tb documents stored
200 concurrent users
up to 6000 users adhoc
24x7 usage

Its always difficult to understand true performance (even under load tests) so people with experience is a good place to start.

I would not want to run a massive Pilot scheme on the wrong technology layer to start.

[nickboyle]

Any ideas to the above question on platform and capacity? anyone?

[wabson]

Hi Nick,

I believe you're already in contact with our team in the UK, so I've let David know that this is still outstanding. He should be in touch with you to discuss this and any other remaining issues.

Regards,
Will.