For a reliable and good user experience with Plant Focus we recommend the following as a hardware standard.
1 Physical server.
2 virtual servers on the same physical server with a virtual 10GB network connection between them.
- If not on the same physical server, we recommend having a 10GB interface between them.
Server 1, Microsoft SQL Server:
- 4 virtual processors
- 16GB of Memory
- 120GB OS Drive
- 250GB Data Drive
- SQL Server 2016
- Windows Server 2016
- SQL Server Standard 2017
Server 2, Web Server:
- 8 virtual processors
- 8GB of Memory
- 120GB OS Drive
- 100GB Data Drive
- Windows Server 2016
We recommend the physical server be setup with
- Appropriately planned RAID
- Appropriately planned Hard Drives
- SAS 15k, Solid State, Enterprise
- Xeon processors, minimum 3.0GHz
- Power Redundant environment
- At the very least UPS protected environment.
- With a UPS, the servers need to power off based upon power settings
- At the very least UPS protected environment.
- Dedicated A/C Environment or server room
- Secured physical access
- Minimum Daily Backups.
- Hourly backups preferred