Deployment Profile Configuration
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Deployment Profile Configuration
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An important part of the installation and deployment process is the determination of the physical resources that must be assigned to the virtual machine for its proper operation. Skylight orchestrator 21.08 and later ships with four deployment profiles that allow it to run in small, large and very large networks. Larger profiles require more disk, CPU and memory to run. The larger profiles also have additional networking requirements.
The specific profile names are: 5K, 15K, 30K and 60K and reference the quantity of Skylight elements that a Skylight orchestrator instance can manage. The selection of the profile is an important part of the installation process and is done by the installer. It determines the number of communication processes that will be started by the application (called mediation instances) to deal with the connectivity to the network.
The virtual machine ships with the 5K profile pre-selected. This is suitable for most deployments, but if larger networks need to be managed, the 15K, 30K or 60K profiles must be used.
Note: Skylight orchestrator does not support decreasing deployment profile.
Depending on the amount of users, the tables below provide details on the CPU and memory requirements of the profiles.
Maximum number of users is 20
| Profile Name | Element Count | Performance Session Count | CPU (vCPUs) | Memory (GiB) | OS Disk I/O (IOPS @6KB) | Data Disk I/O (IOPS @6KB)* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5K | 5000 | 20,000 | 6 | 30 | 12K | - |
| 5K | 100 | 52,000 | 6 | 30 | 26K | - |
| 15K | 15,000 | 0 | 10 | 64 | 1K | 15K |
| 15K | 15,000 | 20,000 | 10 | 64 | 10K | 15K |
| 30K | 30,000 | 0 | 24 | 128 | 1K | 30K |
| 30K | 30,000 | 20,000 | 24 | 128 | 10K | 30K |
| 60K | 60,000 | 0 | 40 | 234 | 1K | 60K |
| 60K | 60,000 | 20,000 | 40 | 234 | 10K | 60K |
*For 15K, 30K and 60K profiles, disk I/O must be split over distinct mount points. Average latency must remain under 5ms.
Maximum number of users is 250
| Profile Name | Element Count | Performance Session Count | CPU (vCPUs) | Memory (GiB) | OS Disk I/O (IOPS @6KB) | Data Disk I/O (IOPS @6KB)* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5K | 5000 | 20,000 | 6 | 46 | 12K | - |
| 5K | 100 | 52,000 | 6 | 46 | 26K | - |
| 15K | 15,000 | 0 | 10 | 80 | 1K | 15K |
| 15K | 15,000 | 20,000 | 10 | 80 | 10K | 15K |
| 30K | 30,000 | 0 | 24 | 144 | 1K | 30K |
| 30K | 30,000 | 20,000 | 24 | 144 | 10K | 30K |
| 60K | 60,000 | 0 | 40 | 250 | 1K | 60K |
| 60K | 60,000 | 20,000 | 40 | 250 | 10K | 60K |
*For 15K, 30K and 60K profiles, disk I/O must be split over distinct mount points. Average latency must remain under 5ms.
CAUTION: If you install the Skylight sensor: control on the same server you must disable hyper-threading. CPU (vCPU) requirements of the profiles remain the same with or without hyper-threading enabled.
Note: For VMware based installations, the 60K profile requires a minimum hardware version of ESXi 6.5 (13).
The CPU and memory requirements are straightforward to apply. The virtual machine has no specific affinity requirements and as a result the CPU and memory configuration can be done using generic hypervisor assignments. Disk requirements are a different matter.
The application is I/O intensive and as a result, special consideration must be taken to ensure sufficient disk capacity, spindles and speed are allotted. The sections that follow provide procedures to assign the deployment profile and guidelines for the proper setup of your disk configuration.
For specific deployment considerations, see the Release Notes.
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