SA Core configuration for your facility

See Customer installable SA Core configurations for detailed descriptions of supported SA Core configurations. For performance scalability information, see Performance scalability

The SA Core configuration that is most appropriate for your facility will depend primarily on the number of servers that are to be managed by SA in the facility.

A typical SA Core installation has three main components. The Model Repository, the Infrastructure Component bundle and one Slice Component bundle. SA Provisioning also requires a Media Server and Boot Server. Since the Media Server and Boot Server do not generate much load and often have environmental dependencies they are not listed in the tables below. If you need more detailed information about SA Core Components, see the "SA Overview and Architecture" in the SA 10.51 Key Concepts Guide.

There is no infallible way to select hardware for an SA Core installation. However, the following two tables show a few recommended SA Core Component layouts that should perform well.

As you can see, scaling a core requires adding slices. Each slice adds highly available UI, API, OGFS, Build Manager and Gateway resources. If you have only a few core servers, you can begin with two larger servers, then increase the capacity of the core by adding additional slices.

The following abbreviations are used in the tables below:

MR: 		Model Repository

INFRA: 	Infrastructure Component bundle

Slice <x>: 	Slice Component bundle

OS Prov: 	Operating System Provisioning Component bundle

Small-to-Medium SA deployment (SA 7.80 and later)

Managed Servers	SA Component Distribution by Server
	Server 1	Server 2
500	MR, Infra, Slice 0, OS Prov	N/A
1000	MR	Infra, Slice 0, OS Prov
Server Configuration: 4 CPU cores, 16 GB RAM, 1 GB/s network

Medium-to-large SA deployment (SA 7.80 and later)

Managed Servers	SA Component Distribution by Server
	Server 1**	Server 2*	Server 3*	Server 4*	Server 5*
2000	MR	Infra, Slice 0, OS Prov	N/A	N/A	N/A
4000	MR	Infra, Slice 0, OS Prov	Slice 1	N/A	N/A
6000	MR	Infra, Slice 0, OS Prov	Slice 1	Slice 2	N/A
8000	MR	Infra, Slice 0, OS Prov	Slice 1	Slice 2	Slice 3
* Server Configuration: 8 CPU Cores, 16 GB RAM, 1 GB/s network ** Server Configuration: 12 CPU Cores, 32 GB RAM, 1 GB/s network

For more information about performance scalability, see Performance scalability.