The Rhapsody organizationprovides a set of basic hardware specifications in order to give customers a general idea of the hardware requirements for deploying Rhapsody at their site. These specifications are not intended to replace formal, customized hardware recommendations created by Rhapsody's Professional Services Group (PSG) consultants.

Rhapsody's hardware specifications are categorized according to site size and provide general recommendations based the estimated message load, the average size of the messages, a simple set of processing requirements and the number of days the messages need to be archived.

The following table defines site size based on an average message size of 10kB and average message retention duration of 28 days:

Site Size

Messages Received per Day

Small

Less than 300,000

Medium

300,000 to 3,000,000

Large

Greater than 3,000,000

Small Site

Site Assumptions

  • The site receives less than 300,000 messages per day.
  • Each message requires mapping from one format to another and performs a simple table lookup before forwarding the message to another 10 systems.
  • Peak load is about four times the sustained rate.

Minimum Hardware Recommendations

  • Windows® Server or Linux.
  • 64-bit Operating System.
  • 4 cores.
  • 8GB RAM and 2GB heap.
  • 40GB disk space for OS and Applications (RAID1).
  • 200GB disk space for data store (RAID1).

Medium Site

Site Assumptions

  • The site receives between 300,000 and 3,000,000 messages per day.
  • Each message requires mapping from one format to another and performs a simple table lookup before forwarding the message to another 10 systems.
  • Peak load is about four times the sustained rate. 

Minimum Hardware Recommendations

  • Windows® Server or Linux.
  • 64-bit Operating System.
  • 8 cores.
  • 8GB RAM and 4GB heap.
  • 40GB disk space for OS and Applications (RAID1).
  • 500GB disk space for data store (RAID10).

Large Site

Assumptions

  • The site receives more than 3,000,000 messages per day.
  • Each message requires mapping from one format to another and performs a simple table lookup before forwarding the message to another 10 systems.
  • Peak load is about four times the sustained rate.

Minimum Hardware Recommendations

  • Windows® Server or Linux.
  • 64-bit Operating System.
  • 8 cores.
  • 16GB RAM and 8GB heap.
  • 40GB disk space for OS and Applications (RAID1).
  • 1TB disk space for data store (RAID10).