a) does that sound reasonable/overkill/underpowered?
b) should something to that effect be in the manual?
c) if (b)=FALSE, should the hardware sentence in the Foreman manual be
removed?
> Guys,
>
> Was asked by management for the hardware requirements for our Foreman
> install and have drawn a blank.
>
> I know there are lots of variables involved, but the manual mentions
> in http://www.theforeman.org/manuals/1.7/index.html#3.1SystemRequirements that
> it will cover hardware requirements, but I can find none. I've gone for
> the same CPU/RAM requirements as in the Katello manual
> http://www.katello.org/docs/2.1/installation/index.html (i.e. 2 CPUs &
> 4Gb RAM).
>
> a) does that sound reasonable/overkill/underpowered?
The variables are usually the tasks it's performing (is it a Puppet
master, CA etc) and the number of clients, reports, ENC lookups, etc
that it's serving. I don't have any hard numbers, but it's come up on
foreman-users a few times, so have a search there.
(I would take them with a large pinch of salt anyway.)
Certainly 2CPUs and 4GB of RAM is fine to run a Foreman installation,
and it's way above the minimum (1/~1GB).
> b) should something to that effect be in the manual?
It'd be nice if we can articulate it.
> c) if (b)=FALSE, should the hardware sentence in the Foreman manual be
> removed?
Our current install runs Puppet Master, CA, ENC lookups on 1CPU/1Gb without
any real grind. The more use it gets above being a dashboard for Puppet
though, I can see this being a tad light.
I'll have a look around to see what numbers/words I can come up with and
get a PR together.
D
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On Wednesday, 11 February 2015 13:23:35 UTC, Dominic Cleal wrote:
>
>
> > a) does that sound reasonable/overkill/underpowered?
>
> The variables are usually the tasks it's performing (is it a Puppet
> master, CA etc) and the number of clients, reports, ENC lookups, etc
> that it's serving. I don't have any hard numbers, but it's come up on
> foreman-users a few times, so have a search there.
>
> (I would take them with a large pinch of salt anyway.)
>
> Certainly 2CPUs and 4GB of RAM is fine to run a Foreman installation,
> and it's way above the minimum (1/~1GB).
>
> > b) should something to that effect be in the manual?
>
> It'd be nice if we can articulate it.
>
> > c) if (b)=FALSE, should the hardware sentence in the Foreman manual be
> > removed?
>
> Sure.
>
> --
> Dominic Cleal
> Red Hat Engineering
>
>
> Our current install runs Puppet Master, CA, ENC lookups on 1CPU/1Gb without
> any real grind. The more use it gets above being a dashboard for Puppet
> though, I can see this being a tad light.
This highly depends on the number of puppet clients. In my experience
you need to scale this up once you have more though I forgot how much.
Your database will appreciate more memory since you need to store more
reports. I'm guessing ~50 clients more memory can be required but maybe
it was ~100.
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 06:07:34AM -0800, Duncan Innes wrote:
I’ll have a look around to see what numbers/words I can come up with and
get a PR together.
D
On Wednesday, 11 February 2015 13:23:35 UTC, Dominic Cleal wrote:
a) does that sound reasonable/overkill/underpowered?
The variables are usually the tasks it’s performing (is it a Puppet
master, CA etc) and the number of clients, reports, ENC lookups, etc
that it’s serving. I don’t have any hard numbers, but it’s come up on
foreman-users a few times, so have a search there.
(I would take them with a large pinch of salt anyway.)
Certainly 2CPUs and 4GB of RAM is fine to run a Foreman installation,
and it’s way above the minimum (1/~1GB).
b) should something to that effect be in the manual?
It’d be nice if we can articulate it.
c) if (b)=FALSE, should the hardware sentence in the Foreman manual be
removed?
