Planning the Installation¶

In production it is typically recommended to host SMARTUNIFIER Manager and the Communication Instances on separate servers.

In a test environment, the Manager and the Communication Instances can run on the same hardware.

The SMARTUNIFIER Manager and the Communication Instances can be run on dedicated hardware as well as in a virtualized environment. CPU and memory requirements are estimated based on modern hardware (e.g. Intel Xeon Coffe Lake / Core i5-7xxx or AMD Epyc / Ryzen 5 3xxx or greater). In a virtualized environment, dedicated resources are highly recommended.

Minimum System Requirements (Manager)¶

• Computer and Processor: 4 cores

• Memory: 1GB free memory

• Storage (SSD): 10GB free space

• Display PC (Engineering, Dashboard): 1920x1080 (Full HD)

• Mobile Devices (Dashboard): Latest version of Apple iPadOS, Apple iOS, Android

• Operating System: Latest version of Windows, Windows Server, Linux, MacOS (Not recommended for production) - For an optimal user experience always use the latest version of the operating system

• Browser: Latest version of Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Firefox

Minimum System Requirements (1 Communication Instance)¶

• Computer and Processor: 4 cores

• Memory: 256MB free memory

• Storage (SSD): 5GB free space

• Operating System: Latest version of Windows, Windows Server or Linux

Production Deployment Example¶

Multiple SMARTUNIFIER Instances can be operated on one server. The number of Instances for each server depends on the overall scenario.

For a deplyoment of ca. 30-40 Communication Instances, the servers minimum requirements are:

• Computer and Processor: 8 cores

• Memory: 16GB free memory

• Storage (SSD): 150GB free space

• Operating System: Latest version of Windows Server

For high-end use cases that require high data volumes, low latency and high amount of data pre-processing, it might be that additional computing resources are required (e.g. deploy one single high-performance Communication Instance on one dedicated computing device).

Test Environment Deployment Example¶

In a test environment the Manager and the Communication Instances can run on the same machine. Hardware configuration for running 20 communication instances as well as the Manager:

• Computer and Processor: 8 cores

• Memory: 16GB free memory

• Storage (SSD): 100GB free space

• Operating System: Latest version of Windows Server