Planning the Installation

In production it is typically recommended to host SMARTUNIFIER Manager and the Communication Instances on different 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 Coffelake / Core i5-6xxx or AMD Epic / 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): Apple iPhone 6 or higher, Android

  • Operating System: 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 or Linux

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).

Note

Communication Instances store log files on the host system therefore sufficient storage needs to be provided.

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 or Linux