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Sizing of a VM to run Orion 11.5 on, RAM, CPUs and DB

Our Orion is extremely slow and I'm trying to determine what the optimal amount of Memory and the number of CPUs required to make it run faster

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sja

Please try that

http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/Orion/docs/OrionPerformance.pdf

If your network is very big with multi pollers try that

Building a Large-scale SolarWinds Installation - YouTube

Hope its helps

adatole

Hey sja thanks for mentioning that ThwackCamp session.

For those who tl;dr

My standard VM sizing tends to run like this:

8 CPU (assuming something between 1.7 and 2.3 Ghz)

12GB RAM

100Gb C: drive (because of log files, etc)

100Gb drive (where I save all the application installers and actually install the software

Now that last piece - installing to instead of C: - is optional and it carries some downstream consequences (like if you are running the "Get top 10 processes" utility, you have to give the full path to the executable). But it lets me put the applications on a SAN drive, and then just use the local C: drive for temp files, logs files, etc.

FormerMember

Leon, you may have just solved an issue that I've been having for some time with several of the "Get top 10" issues. I have Orion installed to and would like you to elaborate on your statement of downstream consequences.

Thanks!

Brett

adatole

Elaboration:

If you create an alert trigger action and simply specify "SolarWinds.APM.RealtimeProcessPoller.exe" it will assume it is running from C:\program files(x86)

So you need to be VERY specific if you have installed SolarWinds to any other location. For example, I typically install SolarWinds to the root of , as in:

\solarwinds\etc\etc\etc

So in my trigger action, I have to specify:

\solarwinds\orion\APM\SolarWinds.APM.RealtimeProcessPoller.exe ...etc

Does that make sense?