HW recommendations for Orion v9 SLX (1662 nodes, 2255 interfaces and 1953 volumes monitored)

Question

Hi all,

Currently running an Orion 8.5.1 SLX installation on a four year old G1 with 2 GB ram, 1662 nodes, 2255 interfaces and 1953 volumes monitored.

Needless to say, we have severe issues with lost statistics, lost polls and even soooo slow response from the web interface (sometimes 1-2 minutes before node details are loaded in IE).

Planning to upgrade to version 9, I would like to have your recommendations for a new server, with the number of nodes, interfaces and volumes monitored.

The server is also running a Solarwinds Syslog service.

Also, is there any gain in response in the web interface, when splitting Orion to have the Polling Engine on a seperate server and the web interface on another?

Thanks in advance

Anders Damkjær

Oticon A/S

Network_Guru · Answer

The most performance gain can be had from tuning the DB server.
Make sure you have lots of RAM (I have 14GB in mine) and fast IO disk array (I use Raid 0).
Polling takes very little CPU so running both the Web and Polling engine on the same server is OK.

duckstardeluxe · Answer

Yes, but what I'm trying to find out, is if there is a website performence gain if the webserver is on a seperate machine, the polling engine/orion of it's own and the SQL on a seperate cluster..

Oliver_White · Answer

Hi Anders,

the resources ( processor, diskspace, RAM, etc ) of the server will be used from Orion installation and SQL server, therefore it would slow down the machine.

If the SQL database is on a separate server it wont use the same resources. You should see an increase of the performance as soon as you install Orion on a new server with better hardware. All the information you see at the website ( statistics, charts, etc ) are collected data from the database. that is what I meant with website\database. :-)

Kind Regards

Oliver White