Server Requirements

Sysctl AB - 2018-03-29

Abstract

This describes the server requirements for both a physical deaddrop server and a virtual server. This document explains the recommendations for a server purchase or the specifications that a virtual server needs.

1. 1.0 - Server setup recommendations
2. 1.1 - Physical Server
3. 1.2 - Virtual Server
4. 1.3 - Disk Usage

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Server Requirements - 1.0

Server Setup Recommendations

The basis for the hardware and virtual hardware recommendation is a 200 user license with normal day-to-day usage of the service. With normal day-to-day usage we mean 20-30% of the licensed user use it daily for single file operations of small-to-medium size files (1-100Mb files). Depending on the usage and the number of simultaneous deaddrop users the requirements may be different.

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Server Requirements - 1.1

Physical Server

The table below will show the requirement for a physical server running deaddrop

	Deaddrop	Deaddrop with AV-plugin
CPU	One 64bit 2 GHz, 8-core	Two 64bits 2,3 GHz, 8-core
Memory	8GB DDR4 ECC ~2000 MHz	16GB DDR4 ECC ~2000 Mhz
PSU	Two, at least one connected to UPS	Two, at least one connected to UPS
Network card	minimum 1Gbit	minimum 1Gbit
Hard drives	2 in software raid	2 in software raid
SAS/RAID card	Support for direct access(HBA)	Support for direct access(HBA)
Chassis units	1U chassis	1U chassis
Rails	Click rails	Click rails
Cable Management	1U chassis	1U chassis
Arm

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Server Requirements - 1.2

Virtual server

• The same hardware specification as a physical server where possible.
• The virtualisation environment must ensure proper disk I/O (i.e. enough I/O bandwidth).
• The virtualisation environment must ensure proper network connection.
• The virtualisation environment should support UEFI boot.
• The virtualisation environment should support Secure boot.
• The virtualisation environment should support strong RNG to guests.

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Server Requirements 1.3

Disk Usage

• For speed, we recommend Enterprise SSD disks.
• Deaddrop server requires 30Gb of disk space for the deaddrop application and Operating System. This is excluding the deaddrop end-users disk space.
• Uploaded files can be stored up to 14 days before being removed.
• Low traffic deaddrop server with 200+ users may use at least 50Gb of diskspace