Fabric & TDM 7.xx Hardware Requirements for Production Environments

PostgreSQL

• PostgreSQL is generally required for TDM projects only.

• K2view supports PostgreSQL version 9.6 & 13.

• PostgreSQL requires 100G storage.

• PostgreSQL can be deployed in one of these ways:

  • On a VM (use latest CentOS/Redhat Operating System with latest patches), or
  • As a service.

  For cloud deployments:

• If using AWS: EC2: m5.xlarge

• If using Azure VM: A8v2

• If using GCP: e2-standard-4

  For example, if you are implementing PostgreSQL as a PaaS, you can use the following:

  • For AWS: RDS PostgreSQL
  • For GCP: Cloud SQL PostgreSQL see here for more about PostgreSQL

Windows Server Specifications for Fabric Studio

Hardware Requirements

For Local installation:

• Windows Version – Any one of the following: 10/11/2012/2016/2019 64bit Machine
• CPU: 8 Cores/vCPUs.
• RAM: 8GB
• Storage: 100GB Available Disk Space

For Cloud installation:

• If using AWS: EC2: m5.xlarge
• If using Azure VM: A8v2
• If using GCP e2-standard-4

Windows Ports

Open the following ports on the Windows server:

• 3389 – Used for RDP

Windows Permissions

Local administrator privileges are needed for the Fabric Studio installation.

Linux Execution Server Specifications

Use a dedicated server for Fabric, and a separate, dedicated server for Kafka

Hardware Requirements (for each Linux server):

For local installations:

• OS: latest CentOS/Redhat Operating System with latest patches
• CPU: 8 Cores/16vCPUs (Modern Xeon Processor)
• RAM: 64G For Fabric, Redis, Kafka servers that runs Fabric, Redis - 64G RAM.
• Network: Minimum 1G between the nodes and source DB’s
• Storage: The preferred storage is attached local SSD’s in non-RAID configuration.
  When SAN must be used, it must be flash and in RAID-0. NAS are not certified

For Cloud installation:

Cloud instances for SOR:

• If using AWS: EC2: m5.2xlarge
  • Use gp3, for K2view home and data storage
  • Use gp3 for the Kafka home directory
• If using Azure: Standard_DS14_v2
• If using GCP: e2-standard-8

Cloud instances for non SOR:

• If using AWS: EC2: i3.2xlarge –
  • For the K2view home directory gp3, use the NVMe device
  • For the kafka home directory gp3 with provision of 25K IOPS
• If using Azure: Standard_DS14_v2, Standard_L8s_v2
  • for the K2view storage use the NVMe device. See also https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/best-practices/cassandra
• If using GCP: e2-standard-8
  • Make sure to attach to the VM “local SSD” type env NVMe. See also https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/performance for use of “Block storage”.

For all installations, the FS configuration must be as follows:

• Volume of 50G /opt/apps/k2view/ - will be used also as the home directory for K2view user
• Volume of 100G* /opt/apps/k2view/storage
• Volume of 100G* /opt/apps/kafka/

Note:

• the FS must provide IOPS of at least 30K read & 10K write on each node simultaneously, while all nodes are running the test at the same time.
• The above volume values should be modified in accordance with project scope and data retention requirements.

Linux Server Setup

Follow the following steps to setup a Linux Server:

1. NTP/chrony installed and configured
2. Add a user ‘fabric’ with group ‘fabric’
3. Add Admin permissions to the k2view user.
4. Provide read/write access to /opt/apps/fabric
5. Remote access option (SSH) enabled to user k2view.
6. Add a user ‘cassandra with group ‘fabric’
7. Provide read/write access to /opt/apps/cassandra
8. Remote access option (SSH) enabled to user cassandra.
9. Add a user ‘kafka with group ‘fabric’
10. Provide read/write access to /opt/apps/kafka
11. Remote access option (SSH) enabled to user kafka.

Run the following as ROOT:

echo "fabric - nofile  100000" >> /etc/security/limits.conf
echo "fabric - nproc  50000" >> /etc/security/limits.conf
echo "kafka hard  nofile 100000" >> /etc/security/limits.conf
echo "kafka soft  nofile 100000" >> /etc/security/limits.conf
echo "kafka - nproc  50000" >> /etc/security/limits.conf
## update /etc/sysctl.conf  ##
echo "## Added by  K2view - GabiO" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
echo  "vm.max_map_count = 1048575" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
echo "fs.file-max =  1000000" >> /etc/sysctl.conf 

Fabric Linux Ports

Open the following ports on the LINUX server, and make sure they are accessible outside the server:

Cassandra Linux Execution Server Specifications

Install Cassandra under cassandra user.

Cassandra Servers

For local installation:

• OS: Latest Redhat/CentOS with latest patches (CentOS/ Redhat 8 are not certified) Note: Cassandra requiers python 2.7
• CPU: 16vCPUs (Modern Xeon Processor).
• RAM: Minimum 32GB RAM
• Network: Minimum 1G between the nodes and source DB’s
• Storage: The preferred storage is attached local SSD’s in non-RAID configuration. In cases where SAN must be used then it must be flash and in RAID-0. NAS are not certified

For Cloud installation:

Cloud instances for SOR:

• If using AWS: EC2: m5.4xlarge
  • Use gp3 for Cassandra home and data storage
• If using Azure: Standard_DS14_v2
• If using GCP: c2-standard-16, see also https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/performance for use of “Block storage”

Cloud instances for non SOR:

• If using AWS: EC2: i3.2xlarge
  • For the Cassandra home directory gp3 storage, use the NVMe device for data storage
• If using Azure: Standard_DS14_v2, Standard_L8s_v2
  • For the cassandra storage, use the NVMe device
• If using GCP: c2-standard-16
  • Make sure to attach to the VM “local SSD” type env NVMe. See also https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/performance for use of “Block storage”

For all installations, the FS configuration for SOR must be as follows:

• Volume of 50G /opt/apps/cassandra/
• Volume of [25% of the data] /opt/apps/cassandra/storage/commitlog
• Volume of 2T* /opt/apps/cassandra/storage/data
• Volume of [10% of the data] /opt/apps/cassandra/storage/hints

Note:

• the FS must provide IOPS of at least 30K read & 10K write on each node simultaneously, while all nodes are running the test at the same time.
• The above volume values should be modified in accordance with project scope and data retention requirements.

For all installations, the FS configuration for non SOR must be as follows:

• Volume of 50G /opt/apps/cassandra/
• Volume of 2T* /opt/apps/cassandra/storage/ mount on the NVMe LVM

The above volume values should be modified in accordance with project scope and data retention requirements.

Cassandra Linux Server Setup

Follow these steps to setup the Linux Server:

1. NTP/chrony installed and configured
2. Add a user ‘cassandra with home directory /opt/apps/cassandra
3. Provide read/write access to /opt/apps/cassandra
4. Remote access option (SSH) enabled to user cassandra.
5. The SWAP should be disable for cassandra.

Run the following as ROOT:

echo "root soft    nproc   unlimited" >>  /etc/security/limits.conf
echo "cassandra - nofile 100000" >>  /etc/security/limits.conf
echo "cassandra - nproc 50000" >>  /etc/security/limits.conf
## update /etc/sysctl.conf ##
echo "## Added by K2view - GabiO" >>  /etc/sysctl.conf
echo "vm.max_map_count = 1048575" >>  /etc/sysctl.conf
echo  "fs.file-max = 1000000" >> /etc/sysctl.conf 

Linux Ports

The following ports should be opened on the LINUX server and accessible outside the server: