Hardware System Requirements for Large Deployment of Aternity on-premise (up to 75,000 devices)

The large Aternity deployment supports up to 75,000 monitored devices or virtual desktops, where up to 10% of them (7500) are virtual application sessions from up to 360 virtual application servers. It supports five concurrent Aternity users, and assumes up to 10 monitored managed application per device which monitor the application's resource usage.

Large Aternity deployment

Hardware Specifications for Large Deployments

The large deployment requires the following hardware specifications:

Component Minimum Memory (RAM) Minimum CPU Minimum hard disk space Additional configuration

2 x Aternity Aggregation Server

8GB

Xeon E3 family, 2 cores at 2.4 GHz

30GB

JVM heap size: (learn more)

-Xmx4096m

-XX:MaxNewSize=2000m

Aternity Management Server

16GB

Xeon E5 family

4 cores

2.4 GHz

80GB

JVM heap size: (learn more)

-Xmx10240m

-XX:MaxNewSize=4096m

ActiveMQ JVM Heap Size: 2G

Aternity Dashboard Server

For less standard hardware configurations, see the installation instructions and hardware best practices from Tableau. To deploy on a virtual machine, you must guarantee the CPU and memory requirements.

16GB

Xeon E5 family

8 Cores

2.4-3.6 GHz

15MB CPU cache

200GB (SSD)

Or I/O per sec (IOPS): 900

Number of processes: (learn more)

VizQL Server: 1

Application Server: 2

Backgrounder: 4

Aternity Database Server

16GB

Xeon E5 Family

8 Cores

2.4 GHz

2.5TB

I/O per sec (IOPS): 1200

Aternity Data Warehouse Server

12GB

Xeon E5 family

4 cores

2.4 GHz

180GB

(Forecast for Aternity v10: 450GB)

JVM heap size: (learn more)

-Xmx8192m

-XX:MaxNewSize=3072m

You must also install each server with the required operating system and other software. For details, see the system and software requirements for each server.

Sizing for a Large Deployment

Contact Customer Services to help you estimate the size of your deployment, by calculating the following values:

Deployment Max # devices and VDIs # virtual sessions # virtual servers PRC WPM AR/min Non-WPM AR/min Discovery AR/min Aternity users

Large Aternity deployment (see hardware requirements)

67,500

7500

360

10

0.5

0.5

0.5

5

Where:

  • # devices and VDIs is the maximum number of monitored physical devices and virtual desktop VDIs (not their hypervisors) which report their performance to Aternity at the same time.

  • # virtual sessions is the maximum number of monitored virtual application sessions reporting their performance to Aternity at the same time.

    # virtual servers is the maximum number of virtual application servers (like Citrix XenApp) or RDP servers, which generate the monitored virtual sessions.

  • PRC is the average number of PRC monitors per device, averaged over 24 hours. By default, devices report PRC once an hour.

  • AR/min is the maximum number of activity response times reported per device per minute at peak times. There are two types:

  • Discovery AR/min The average number of applications which are actively in use simultaneously on a device per minute, which report discovery data (like usage time, wait time and UXI).

  • Aternity users The number of simultaneous users accessing the dashboards and administration features of Aternity.