System Requirements

The yuuvis® RAD services must run on a Windows server operating system. The license models for the operating system must be taken into account. For all operating systems, it is assumed that the vendor’s required security patches are installed.

The following operating systems (including service packs) are supported by the yuuvis® RAD services:

To ensure secure and correct operation of yuuvis® RAD, the following components have to be installed and must work properly:

yuuvis® RAD offers a high level of performance in current infrastructures. To ensure that this can be provided over the long term and for growing databases, it is recommended that the hardware, software, network, and other components be dimensioned accordingly as part of a system concept.

For this reason, the following must be observed as minimum recommendations that should always be met during live operation. The specified benchmarks apply to a system of about 50 users in an average office scenario without excessive data processing. If there are more users or if application scenarios require a lot of computing, the systems’ hardware has to be accordingly adapted. If the specified minimum requirements are not met, this may lead to performance problems or system errors.

The requirements are based on the assumption that the corresponding resources (working memory, processor cores) are solely used by the relevant services, i.e., that they are not used by the operating system and other components which are installed on the hardware unit. If different services are run on a shared hardware platform, the relevant criteria (working memory, process cores) must be understood as cumulative.

A Web server (e.g., Apache Tomcat, JBoss) and a Java JDK are installed by the setups for every service. These are subject to separate product requirements. The ports are reserved by the setups and must not be used by other applications. The setups dynamically detect and assign free shutdown ports.

On test and demo systems, the microservices can also be run on hardware with lower specifications. Database, yuuvis® RAD core-service, yuuvis® RAD service-manager, yuuvis® RAD rendition-plus, and Elasticsearch should each be installed on their own computer in the live environment. In particular, yuuvis® RAD rendition-plus and Elasticsearch should not be installed on the same computer.

Software and hardware required for using yuuvis® RAD designer:

yuuvis® RAD client supports the latest versions of the following browsers:

Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox can be used with Linux, but have not been tested in every configuration. Errors that also occur in Windows will be debugged.

Hardware required for using yuuvis® RAD client:

The 'Roboto' system font from Apache Software should be installed on the workstations in order to obtain the optimal typeface.

One system (database server, yuuvis® RAD core-service, yuuvis® RAD service-manager, yuuvis® RAD rendition-plus) comprising:

• Modern CPU with four cores
• 32 GB RAM
• 500 GB hard drive storage for application data, WORK, CACHE, and ARCHIVE directory, log, and temp area

Two systems split into:

• yuuvis® RAD core-service + DB system + Elasticsearch with:
  • Modern CPU with four cores
  • 16 GB RAM
  • 1×500 GB hard drive storage for database server application, yuuvis® RAD core-service, SQL-DB instance data, SQL-DB transaction log, content, and Elasticsearch
• yuuvis® RAD service-manager and yuuvis® RAD rendition-plus with:
  • Modern CPU with four cores
  • 16 GB RAM
  • 1×500 GB hard drive storage for application data and content
• Network connection with >= 1 Gbps, short latency times, own IP address and free ports visible from the outside

Five systems split into:

• DB system with:
  • Modern CPU with four cores
  • 16 GB RAM
  • 1×250 GB SSD hard drive storage for SQL-DB instance data and transaction log (separation of the data and transaction log on different physical media is recommended)

• yuuvis® RAD core-service with:
  • Modern CPU with four cores
  • 16 GB RAM
  • 1×500 GB hard drive storage for application data and content

• yuuvis® RAD service-manager with:

  • Modern CPU with four cores
  • 16 GB RAM
  • 1×500 GB hard drive storage for application data and content

• yuuvis® RAD rendition-plus with:

  • Modern CPU with four cores
  • 16 GB RAM
  • 1×500 GB hard drive storage for application data and content
• Elasticsearch:
  • Modern CPU with four cores
  • 16 GB RAM
  • The size of the hard drive storage for the index should be at least 25 percent of the size of the text documents to be indexed in the yuuvis® RAD system. Fast hard drive storage is recommended, particularly for the indexing database.

Network connection with >= 1 Gbps, short latency times, own IP address and free ports visible from the outside

This is simply a sample configuration. The required hard drive storage is based on the actual data volume, the working memory based on the number of users, and access figures. Contact the OPTIMAL SYSTEMS consulting team for a detailed requirements analysis.