Version: 3

Deployment Infrastructure - Setup Sizing and Scaling

Setup Sizing Estimator

Initial Setup

Adeptia utilizes a proprietary sizing estimator calculator tool that is used for “capacity planning” and to recommend installation size based on specific customer usage scenarios
This recommends size of servers/VMs and number of cluster nodes for initial setup

Post-setup Analysis - based on a working and stable solution implementation

Perform baseline benchmarking for few selected combinations of file types and sizes for a given memory and CPU configuration on a single node. For best results, use a number of concurrent files (say 2 or 3) that will have the CPU and RAM utilization to safe limits not exceeding the current RAM settings and having enough margin.
Profile CPU and RAM usage and measure peak CPU and RAM utilization in percentage (%).
Now the Sizing Estimator will provide an estimated number of nodes for a given size of single node e.g. 16Gb or 32Gb for the peak loads in consideration. Actually, slightly lesser configuration may also be able to meet performance demands

Performance capacity can be scaled both horizontally and vertically

Horizontal Scaling

To scale data volume processing capacity and system throughput, increase # of Kernel nodes in cluster
To scale APIs/WS capacity and system throughput, increase # of Kernel nodes & WebRunner in cluster
To scale user response times and concurrent user capacity, increase # of Connect nodes

Vertical Scaling

To handle large jobs and huge data files in a scalable manner, select larger servers for Kernel such as with 8-16 Cores and 32GB+ of RAM
To handle both large jobs and high expected data and transaction volumes, separate installations may be considered for different departments or processes