Need Hardware Recommendations for FMS2

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February 8, 2007
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I am having a FMS2 enabled site and application built and would like ideas on the best server setup/specs to run the site smoothly. I expect maximum users at any one time on the site at about 600 with about 400 concurrent FMS2 users. I will have 4 "rooms" with one way video and audio feeds (1 to many) and as many as 100, (1 to 1) connections. Although I am more familiar with xServe, I would prefer to use Linux servers if possible. I have 100 megs of local bandwidth for serving out the content. Am I better to go with fewer, more robust servers or more servers with less individual processing power? How much memory per server works best in your experience? Although Adobe's materials do dot suggest that load balancing is needed at my size, should I look into load balancing hardware anyway? All suggestions are most welcome.

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Steve StricklandAuthor

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Thanks Jay,

Your suggestions seem much more what I needed. I am glad to see that I don't need 16 or 32 gigs of ram per server. Again, thanks.

-Steve

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Anonymous

To come up with some working numbers, let's assume you'll have the following application instances running, and all of your audio/video streams are set at a bitrate of 128kbps:

A) 4 rooms with 1 to many broadcast, each with a single broadcaster being viewed by 100 people -and-

B) 100 2 way chat rooms, each having two users both sending/receiving audio and video

For part A, we'll have a total of 404 streams (400 receiving and 4 broadcasting). At 128kbps, your 404 streams will consume about 50Mbps of bandwidth.

For part B, we'll have a total of 400 streams (100 rooms each with two broadcasting streams and two receiving streams), so, there's another 50Mbps.

So, we have a total of 804 streams consuming 100mbps... assuming you stick with 128kbps. If your video will be sized at 160x120, you might get away with that bitrate, but if you want a larger image, you'll likely want to increase the video rate to 265kbps or better.

Given the volume, I'd opt to deploy the app across two, or maybe even three servers if the budget allows (single processor Xeon machines with 2gb of RAM should do nicely).

For you OS choice, FMS is rock solid on RHEL 3.

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briiiiin

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Ok search whitepaper or something like that anyway on this site. Adobe have got just what you need.
Basically itll tell you the best processor u need is a Intel Xeon atleast 1 memory card good motherboard, internet card etc but it also goes into details how to calculate exaclty the amount of money youll pay for licence etc etc
Check it out

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Steve StricklandAuthor

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I had seen the general recommendations on the white paper. I hoped to hear greater detail as to how far above that level of server might be enough. I especially am suprised to hear that a single server is sufficient.

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