[hobbit] Hobbit Minimum HW requirement

[Sigurður Guðbrandsson]

Hi.

I run a couple of hobbit servers only on VMWare machines with 256MB of dedicated RAM. That seems to be plenty for me, so basicly anything goes so long as you can configure the linux system to work properly.

With regards, 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Moore, Joe [mailto:jmoore at ugs.com] 
Sent: 18. september 2007 13:46
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit Minimum HW requirement

Ryan Jay B. Lapuz wrote:
> I'm currently documenting hobbit installation and configuration base 
> on our company requirements. However, I'm stuck on the information 
> about the minimum hardware requirement of the Hobbit server. I can't 
> seem to find it into the internet. Anyone who has this info?

My suggestion:  If this is a "funded project", that is to say, something that your company is willing to spend money on, you can consider the minimum hardware requirement to be "The smallest new server you can buy from your preferred hardware vendor".  I wouldn't run a production monitoring system on something that doesn't have hardware support.

For example, my company has a lot of Dell logos in the datacenter.  The smallest "Enterprise" Dell server is currently the PowerEdge 860, out-of-the box in a minimal config, it has a 3GHz pentium D, 1GB of ram, and a single 80GB hard drive. (and list price according to Dell's public website is $2300 + change, including a 1-year RHEL subscription)

So as of today, I would write up the minimum hardware requirement as "1 3GHz CPU, 1GB ram, and 80 GB Hard drive space".  That's more than sufficient for most hobbit installations.

My $0.02
--Joe

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