DCO system requirements

These system specifications are recommendations for your DCO system configuration in general.

The performance and operation of the system depends largely on the nature of the configuration, such as:

• Number and population of racks
• Number and nature of integrations to external systems
• Number of devices and number of data points stored on these
• Power path configuration (one big, several small, across rooms, etc.)
• Concurrent and total users of the system and nature of their work cycle
• Cluster configuration (recommended to run on hardware, not virtual setup for better ready time)

If Data Center Operation is running on lower specification servers than recommended, users may experience long response times or timeout issues. In addition, the server may not be able to process scheduled jobs in a timely manner. This can lead to an infinite job queue, where the amount of queued work on the Data Center Operation server is ever increasing to the point where one or more Data Center Operation cluster servers are no longer responsive.

Recommended server hardware for Data Center Operation

The Data Center Operation Suite requires a dedicated server, either hardware or a virtual environment. The operating system is included in the Data Center Operation installation. The below requirements are referring to the latest version Data Center Operation.

Recommended Data Center Operation server configuration

Server requirement guidelines (minimum)

• CPU: 4 cores minimum. We recommend 8 cores
• Memory: 16 GB RAM (absolute minimum requirement)
• 100 GB storage, speed minimum 170 MB/s
• Cluster network: 1 Gbps connection between nodes
• Disaster recovery network: 10 Mbps with low latency <100 ms

If you're installing DCO on an existing server, note that DCO claims almost all memory (JVM about 8 GB and Postgres about 6 GB alone). Therefore, you may experience issues if you have other applications running on the server, such as surveillance and monitoring agents.

Server requirement guidelines for 10,000 racks across 200 rooms with 30 concurrent users

• 8 CPU cores
• 32 GB RAM
• 1 Gbps network connection between cluster nodes
• 100 GB storage, speed minimum 170 MB/s

Server requirement guidelines for 20,000 racks across 400 rooms with 30 concurrent users

• 16 CPU cores
• 64 GB RAM
• 1 Gbps network connection between cluster nodes
• 100 GB storage, speed minimum 170 MB/s

RAID systems

Recommended: Hardware RAID controllers (we have tested hardware controllers in the following server series, DELL x20 series, IBM M4 series, HP G8 series) Be aware there might be hardware RAID controllers that we have not tested in special configuration of the server series mentioned.

Not supported:

• Generally all software RAID controllers
• HP RAID Controller B-Series
• DELL RAID Controller S-Series

Security configuration

For information about security configuration, see here.