Hardware Requirements and Recommendations
SEI has hardware requirements and hardware recommendations. Consult both in order to arrive at the best installation process for you.
Hardware Requirements
The hardware requirements depend on the chosen installation architecture and the volume of data to manage. Consult a SEI specialist for customizing recommendations.
SEI on a dedicated server (excluding the OLAP Cube database) typically requires at least:
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CPU: Quad Core 2.8 GHz
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RAM Memory: 8 GB (16 GB for 100 users)
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Hard Disk Drive: 10 GB available space (Website + Services + SEI Database)
It is recommended to have a planning and infrastructure assessment discussion with a SEI specialist to ensure proper performance after SEI is installed.
Hardware Recommendations
There are multiple deployment models for SEI, the most common of which are:
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Installing SEI and all its components on the same server as the ERP application and database
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Installing the applicative side of SEI (websites) on a dedicated server, and the database side of SEI (Central Point, warehouse) on the ERP server
These recommendations are in addition to the hardware recommendations of the workloads co-existing on the same server.
Depending on the usage, SEI's workloads have varying resource footprints on the infrastructure they rely upon.
Below are the matrices of hardware recommendations for the most common scenarios, by function of number of users and data volumes. The term "licenses" refers to both viewer and active licenses.
The RAM requirement for using the distribution with more than one parallel job must be at least 16 GB and increase by approximately 4 GB per consecutive parallel job, depending on data and other parameters.
Single Server
Scenario 1: Single server
The following is a visualization that describes the installation scenario above (all applications and databases are installed on the same server):
| Single Server |
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ERP Application |
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Database Server: ERP Databbase + SEI Database + BI License Database + OLAP Cube Database + DataSync Database (optional) |
| SEI Application (complete installation as single tenant) |
| Central Point |
| DataSync (optional) |
| Excel Add-in (optional, if you are using Excel Add-In into the Distribution) |
Hardware Recommendations
| Active Concurrent Users or Licenses |
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| 1-10 active concurrent users/ 1-25 licenses |
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| 10-25 active concurrent users/ 25-50 licenses |
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| 25-50 active concurrent users/ 50-100 licenses |
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| 50+ active concurrent users/ 100+ licenses |
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Multiple Servers
Scenario 2: ERP server and DB Server + SEI Server
| ERP and Database Server | SEI Server |
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ERP Application + ERP DB + DataSync Database (optional) |
SEI (complete installation as single tenant) + Web Central Point Configurator + DataSync (optional) + Excel Add-in (optional, if you are using Excel Add-In into the Distribution) |
Hardware Recommendations
Nectari Server Recommendations
| Active Concurrent Users or Licenses |
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| 1-10 active concurrent users/ 1-25 licenses |
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| 10-25 active concurrent users/ 25-50 licenses |
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| 25-50 active concurrent users/ 50-100 licenses |
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| 50+ active concurrent users/ 100+ licenses |
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ERP and Database Server Recommendations
| Active Concurrent Users or Licenses |
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| 1-10 active concurrent users/ 1-25 licenses |
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| 10-25 active concurrent users/ 25-50 licenses |
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| 25-50 active concurrent users/ 50-100 licenses |
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| 50+ active concurrent users/ 100+ licenses |
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Scenario 3: ERP Server + DB Server + SEI Server
Installation scenario with three servers. For more help and information, contact your SEI specialist.
| ERP Server | Database Server | SEI Server |
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ERP Application
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ERP DB + DataSync Database (optional) |
SEI (complete installation as single-tenant) + Web Central Point Configurator + DataSync (optional) + Excel Add-in (optional, if you are using Excel Add-In into the Distribution) |
Hardware Recommendations
Please contact your SEI specialist to analyze the hardware recommendations for this scenario.
Scenario 4: ERP Server + DB Server + SEI Server + Dedicated Distribution Server
Installation scenario with four servers. For more help and information, contact your SEI specialist.
| ERP Server | Database Server | SEI Server | Distribution Server |
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ERP Application
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Database Server: ERP DB + DataSync Database (optional) |
SEI (custom installation as multi-tenant with Application + Scheduler + OLAP Worker) + Web Central Point Configurator + DataSync (optional) |
SEI (custom installation as with Distribution Worker) + Excel Add-in (optional, if you are using Excel Add-In into the Distribution) |
Hardware Recommendations
Please contact your SEI specialist to analyze the hardware recommendations for this scenario.
Scenario 5: ERP Server + DB Server + SEI Server + Dedicated Distribution Server + Dedicated OLAP Server
Installation scenario with five servers. For more help and information, contact your SEI specialist.
| ERP Server | Database Server | SEI Server | OLAP Server | Distribution Server |
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ERP Application
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ERP DB + DataSync Database (optional) |
SEI (custom installation as multi-tenant with Application + Scheduler) + Web Central Point Configurator + DataSync (optional) |
SEI (custom installation as multi-tenant with OLAP Worker) |
SEI (custom installation as multi-tenant with Distribution Worker) + Excel Add-in (optional, if you are using Excel Add-In into the Distribution) |
Hardware Recommendations
Please contact your SEI specialist to analyze the hardware recommendations for this scenario.
Scenario 6: ERP and DB Server + SEI Servers + Central Point Configurator Server + Distribution Server + OLAP Server + Scheduler Server
This installation scenario can have as many SEI servers as required. In this example, the Central Point Configurator communicates with the SEI servers and sends the requests to the Scheduler, Distribution and OLAP servers. For more help and information, contact your SEI specialist.
| ERP and Database Server |
SEI Server 1 |
SEI Server 2 |
Central Point Configurator Server | Distribution Server | OLAP Server |
Scheduler Server |
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ERP Application ERP DB + DataSync Database (optional) |
SEI (custom installation as multi-tenant with Application) + DataSync (optional) |
SEI (custom installation as multi-tenant with Application) |
SEI (custom installation as multi-tenant with Distribution Worker) + Excel Add-in (optional, if you are using Excel Add-In into the Distribution) |
SEI (custom installation as multi-tenant with OLAP Worker) |
SEI (custom installation as multi-tenant with Scheduler) |
Example Scenario
Consider the following scenario:
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SEI is installed entirely on the same server as the ERP
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The ERP system has the following hardware requirements:
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2 vCPus
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16 GB memory
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500 GB free disk space
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There are 15 SEI licenses
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There are 17 million records in the financial transactional tables
We recommend the following hardware for the server:
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10 vCPUS (2 for ERP + 8 for SEI)
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32 GB memory (16 for ERP +16 for SEI)
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750 GB of free disk space (500 GB for ERP + 250 GB for SEI)