Real world data wanted!! How is your Orion server performing?

Server OS - All servers: Win2008 server 64-bit on VMWare
                 DB - SQL2008 64bit dual proc 16GB RAM, Compellant SAN connected
                 NPM/NF/IPAM/IPSLA - dual proc, 4GB RAM                 
                 NPM addt'l PE/IPSLA   x3 - single proc, 4GB RAM
                 Addt'l Web srv   x2 load balanced - single proc 2GB RAM

Number of nodes
                 562

Number of interfaces
                 9615

Total elements
                 10241

Total Pollers
                 19925

Polls per second for ICMP and SNMP
                 avg 110/50

Polling intervals other than default? 
                 120sec/5min

Typical CPU Load and % RAM used
              25%cpu / 75% mem used on SQL (set for that).
              30%cpu /  60% on NPM
              40%cpu /  40% on addt'l PE
              30%cpu /  75% on addt'l Web servers

Poller Completion
              currently running ~99.4% or better on all engines

we haven't implemented IPSLA or IPAM yet, just finished eval and purchased. 
Also just added an additional poller for IPSLA load anticipated.

Server OS:
Windows Server 2008 R2

Server CPU type, number and speed:
Qty 2 Intel Xeon 3.00Ghz

Server RAM:
10GB

Number of nodes:
1251

Number of interfaces:
3058

Number of volumes:
914

Total elements:
5223

Other SolarWinds modules running?
APM 100 license
IPAM unlimited
NCM

SQL DB local or remote?
local, unfortunately

Polls per second for ICMP and SNMP:
ICMP = 30
SNMP = 30

Polling intervals other than default?
95% set at default 

Typical CPU Load and % RAM used:
CPU averages about 40%
RAM 99% due to SQL

I am in the process of replacing this box with a dedicated web server and dedicated SQL server because Orion is very slow with our current configuration. The current server is a Dell Blade with 2 mirrored hard disks running NPM, NCM, APM, IPAM and SQL.

Server OS: Windows Server 2008

Server CPU Type/Num/Speed: Xeon/2/2.67 GHz

RAM: 12

Num Nodes: 1556

Num Interfaces: 3734

Total Elements: 6493

Other Solarwinds modules Running: NCM, APM, NetFlow

SQL DB Local or Remote: Remote

Poles per second ICMP and SNMP: 50/51 (outstanding will typically runin the 100s, currently at 300).

Polling intervals other then the default: Not sure what u are asking here. Are you asking if we have some monitors with intervals less/ greater then the default 300 Seconds? 

Typical CPU/RAM used - 20%/45%

I have an SLX machine running the website, APM, and  IP SLA. Windows 2003 64x, this is a 2x Quadcore w/ 16gb of ram. Bit of an overkill. It polls 3000 elements, ~40 IP SLA, 1190 APMs, ~200 UnDPs, and a LOT of traps. PPS[35 ICMP | 30 SNMP] AvgCPU:9% AvgMEM:17%

Next I have a poller on hardware, 1x Quadcore w/ 8gb of ram. Windows 2003 64x. It polls 3 nodes, but totals 11,518 elements across those 3 nodes. PPS[95 ICMP | 55 SNMP] AvgCPU:10% AvgMEM20%

Last poller is a virtual machine, we give it 2x 3.ghz cores and 2gb of ram. Windows 2003 64x. It polls 10482 elements. PPS[90 ICMP | 100 SNMP] AvgCPU:11% AvgMEM:24%

Our DB server is physical hardware. 2x Quadcore w/ 16gb of ram. 6x 146gb 15k rpm in (unfortunately) Raid 6. 64x OS and 64x SQL. AvgCPU:12% AvgMEM:95%

These devices are all Dell2950's (ESX cluster included) running in the same LAN segment.

For polling the default is 300s/300s/300s with a rediscovery of 1440 minutes. However, many devices and interfaces are more critical and set to 120s instead.

Statistics are similar, 10m/9m/15m although many interfaces collect every minute.

Retention is 35d/35d/365d/30d. I do the 35d retention on detailed statistics for monthly 95th percentile compositions.

Thanks to all who have responded so far. Anyone else want to chime in?

Server OS

2k3 R2 Ent SP2

Server CPU type, number and speed

Xeon X5355 @ 2.66 Edit (8 cores total)

Server RAM

16G

NTA3.6

SQL DB local or remote?

local

Polling intervals other than default?

default

Typical CPU Load and % RAM used

CPU cores usually below 5%

	C:\ Label:System ecbd90e5	22.307 GB	16.151 GB	72 %
	D:\ Label:Apps 6cbe99ff	123.141 GB	10.05 GB	8 %
	Virtual Memory	19.061 GB	3.025 GB	16 %
	Physical Memory	17.179 GB	3.024 GB	18 %

And uh how 'bout posting ur's too B????

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Server OS
Windows Server 2003 R2 64-bit SP2

Server CPU type, number and speed
Intel Xeon @ 2.4Ghz  - 4 cores (VMWare on an IBM BladeCenter)

Server RAM
3GB

Number of nodes
360 nodes

Number of interfaces
12915

Total elements
13362

Other SolarWinds modules running?
NTA
VOIP Monitor (soon to be IPSLA)
NCM

SQL DB local or remote?
remote, but it's on another BladeCenter. 2 Cores, 4GB RAM, IBM XIV SAN

Polls per second for ICMP and SNMP
50 ICMP
30 per second SNMP

Polling intervals other than default?
default

Typical CPU Load and % RAM used
NPM Server - 25% CPU, 75% RAM
SQL Server - 75 to 100% CPU, 75% RAM

My performance is pretty much crap. Several minutes to load pages, particularly anything with NetFlow. Timeouts on page loads during peak hours, on occasion. I've been told by Solarwinds people this is largely due to the fact that I'm running my SQL Server's storage on a SAN, but I don't really have the option to get it off the SAN. It also doesn't help that the SAN is XIV, which seems slower than traditional SANs.

I don't know much about IBM SAN but my experience primarily EMC Symmetrix on the 10K switches... the performance awsome... and depending on configuration better than many local disk arrays... now NAS on the other hand... not always so good.  My SolarWinds configuration pales in size to some of yours though.

Two polling servers

OS: Windows 2003 Server

CPU: 2 - Xeon 3.60GHz

RAM: 4GB

Nodes: 3,718

Interfaces: 5,959

Elements: 9,691

Other SolarWind modules: None

Local or Remote DB: Remote

Polls per second: Status = 34 Statistics = 53

Polling intervals: 5 Minutes

CPU Load: 12%

RAM usage: 52%