HAWK requirements

bmadhav · Post by **bmadhav** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:13 pm

I couldn't find the right forum to post HAWK related discussions, so, i am posting it here!
We are getting ready for the HAWK BETA on AIX, which is supposed to be out by mid- May'06.
Does anybody know what are the ideal machine requirements for the AIX box to put down HAWK BETA.
Here is what i am looking for :
1)minimum Processors required ?
2) Disk: How many Gbytes ?
3) Minimum Memory: ?
4) I know HAWK requires AIX 5.3
5) Other requirements if any..

I need to take these requirements to my AIX admin, so, please let me know if anybody is aware of it.
Thanks in advance..

vmcburney · Post by **vmcburney** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:28 pm

From the Beta 1.0 installation guide the metadata server requires 2GB for RAM and 4GB of disk space plus it requires a WebSphere Application Server version 6.0.2 (which is bundled with the beta software). The repository requires DB2 version 8.2 (also bundled). The DataStage Server requires 2GB of RAM, 400MB of disk space to install, 16MB for each DataStage project, 180MB for each node.

They also recommend 2GB of RAM for the client machines so it looks like this is a blanket requirement and you could get away with less.

For a beta test you could get away with 1 CPU however in this release you have more software running: metadata server, DB2, application server and DataStage server. So I recommend more grunt then a minimum spec 7.x machine. 2 CPUs or more will give you a good evaluation of the parallel processing capabilities.

bmadhav · Post by **bmadhav** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:54 am

Thank u so much!

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:31 pm

Beware that it's now Beta 2 - the rules may have changed.

vmcburney · Post by **vmcburney** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:45 pm

Someone pointed out to me in a private message that you can install components on different machines, so a metadata server on one machine and the DataStage server on another. Only the DataStage server would require the multiple CPUs.

kumar_s · Post by **kumar_s** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 8:57 am

I was told, Beta 2 is for unix flavour with bit more enhancement.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:17 pm

By whom? Please attribute your sources. Otherwise you may have been told by a stand-up comedian: we have no way of knowing.