Small Environment

This topic is only applicable to on-premises installations.

A small environment is suitable for organizations with the following complexity factors:

  • Up to 100 concurrent users
  • Fewer than 100,000 content records
  • 10,000 or fewer new content records added per year
  • Up to 2 significant data feeds per day
  • Up to 4 applications with simple 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 small environment, it is recommended that you set up 1 Database Server and 1 combined Web and Services Server.

The following table describes the recommended configuration for a small environment.

Database Server (1)

Web and Services Server (1)

Instance Database

Web Application

Configuration Database

Archer Technologies Archer Configuration

 

Archer Technologies Archer Advanced Workflow service

 

Remaining services

Database Server

The following table lists the minimum required hardware and software elements to build a Database Server for a small environment.
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

DB Version

Microsoft SQL Server

Disk Space

50 GB (Instance Database)

2 GB (Configuration Database)

Disks

15K spindles are the minimum for the DB tier, though it is strongly recommended to use a SAN with SSDs, either as regular disks, caching (for example, EMC FAST Cache), or for automated tiering. Distinct spindles for data, transaction logs, and tempdb are required if SSDs are not available.

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.

Combined Web and Services Server

The following table lists the minimum required hardware and software elements to build a combined Web and Services Server for a small environment. In this configuration, it is assumed that the Web Application and all Archer services run on the same server.
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

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.