Medium Environment
This topic is only applicable to on-premises installations.
A medium environment is suitable for organizations with the following complexity factors:
- Up to 250 concurrent users
- Fewer than 250,000 content records
- 20,000 or fewer new content records added per year
- Up to 5 significant data feeds per day
- Up to 9 applications with semi-complex Advanced Workflow processes enabled
See Archer Qualified and Supported Environments on the Archer Community, for the supported and qualified software and environments, browsers and tools.
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Recommended configuration
For a medium environment, set up 1 Database Server, 2 Web Servers, and 1 Services Server.
|
Database Server (1) |
Web Server (2) |
Services Server (1) |
|---|---|---|
|
Instance Database |
Web Application |
Remaining services |
|
Configuration Database |
Archer Configuration service |
Database Server
| Element | Requirements |
|---|---|
|
Processor |
At least 8 total processor cores (Hyper-threading technology is not equivalent to multiple dedicated cores) |
|
Operating System |
Microsoft Windows Server |
|
Memory |
48 GB RAM |
|
DB Version |
Microsoft SQL Server |
|
Disk Space |
250 GB (Instance Database) 2 GB (Configuration Database) |
|
Disks |
15K spindles should be the minimum for the DB tier, though it is recommended to use a SAN with SSDs, either as regular disks, caching (for example, EMC FAST Cache), or for automated tiering. If SSDs are not available, distinct spindles for data, transaction logs, and tempdb are necessary. |
|
Network Interface |
Required: 1 Gbps Recommended: 10 Gbps |
Important: For High Availability configurations, use a load balancer to route traffic equally between available web servers. A SQL Cluster with 2 database servers is recommended for database fault tolerance.
Web Server
It is recommended that you run the Web Application and Advanced Workflow services together on both Web Servers and using a load balancer to route traffic equally between the servers.
| Element | Requirements |
|---|---|
|
Processor |
At least 4 total processor cores (Hyper-threading technology is not equivalent to multiple dedicated cores) |
|
Operating System |
Microsoft Windows Server |
|
Memory |
16 GB RAM |
|
Disk Space |
50 GB |
|
Network Interface |
1 Gbps |
Services Servers
| Element | Requirements |
|---|---|
|
Processor |
At least 4 total processor cores (Hyper-threading technology is not equivalent to multiple dedicated cores) |
|
Operating System |
Microsoft Windows Server |
|
Memory |
16 GB RAM |
|
Disk Space |
50 GB |
|
Network Interface |
1 Gbps |
