Data Federator XI 3.1 - best practices

[Former Member]

We are planning of rolling out a data federator setup in our company and I'm looking for some best practices.

The major question I have is, do we install the data federator server components on a dedicated server or can/should we install the components on one of the machines of our BOE r3 cluster (4 nodes -> 2 mgmt and 2 processing)

Is there any document that contains a summary of the best practices for setting up a data federator environment.

Kind regards

Guy

[stephane_thibault · Accepted solution]

Did you read the document "xi3_sp2_datafederator_userguide_en.pdf" that is delivered with the installation of this product? There is a specific section for such a topic (see chapter 19, About deploying Data Federator servers, page 661 of this document).

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank you for the answer, but this is not the kind of information I was looking for.

Let me clarify my question:

what I would like to know is if I can install it on one of our existing BOE servers (more specific on our management tier that runs the CMS) or should it be installed on a machine on which only DataFederator is installed (dedicated).

Guy

[gowdatimma_ramu · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The DF and BOE can co-exists on one system.

Regards,

Ramu.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank you Ramu,

But is this advisable? We're somewhat concerned that if we launch a complex query to DF, it might impact performance of the whole of the BOE environment when installed on the same cluster.

Regards

Guy

[PPaolo · Accepted solution]

Hello,

the advice is to have a specific machine for the DF server.

DF can become memory and CPU intensive for large queries so a dedicated machine allows to improve DF performances and avoid negative impacts on other services (e.g.BOE).

A lot of calculation and temporary storage is done in memory so the advice is to add as much RAM as needed for large queries. If the RAM is not large enough you will have disk swap and hence you'll notice a lower performance.

Hope that it helps

Regards

PPaolo