Vital Signs Windows Server Recommendations

Overview

Vital Signs has the potential to capture and manipulate hundreds of millions of rows of data on a daily basis. This volume of data requires a robust server environment to support it with acceptable performance to the end user.

Recommended Minimum Configuration

Based on membership, the following should serve as a reasonable guide for producing a capable Vital Signs host server

   Membership Size: 0 – 50k members
   CPU : Dual 2.4ghz + *
   Memory : 8 GB +
   Hard Drive Throughput (read/write): 50MB/s +
   Storage Space : 100GB +
   OS : 64bit Standard Server 2003+ / 64bit Standard Server 2008+ / 64bit Standard Server 2008 R2+
   
   Member Base: 51 – 150k members
   Recommended Minimum Configuration
   CPU : Quad 2.4ghz + *
   Memory : 16GB +
   Hard Drive Throughput (read/write): 100MB/s +
   Storage Space : 250GB +
   OS : 64bit Standard Server 2003+ / 64bit Standard Server 2008+ / 64bit Standard Server 2008 R2+

   Note: must be 64bit non Itanium processors

Shared Systems

For clients with a member base greater than 50k we highly recommend using a standalone system for the Vital Signs environment. Shared systems can cause undesired memory complications during heavy load times.

Virtual Environments

We recommend when running a virtual environment, that the host be capable of the minimum requirements stated above at peak load times. The virtualization performance hit, especially with hard drive throughput, must be considered when designing the system for maximum long term performance.

Multi Threaded performance

Vital Signs is powered by QlikView Server, which is capable of utilizing up to 64 processors. The server performance will greatly benefit from a multi core system. Processor affinity can be selected in the QlikView Server Control Console area in the scenario of a shared system.