IBM Cognos Analytics server sizing requirements
Review the server sizing requirements before installing IBM® Cognos® Analytics.
Before you install the Cognos server-based products, ensure that you meet the requirements as described in Table 1.
| Characteristics | Users | RAM (# of Processes * RAM) |
Disk and CPU |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 catalogs 2 databases – Db2®, Oracle 10 reports per catalog 75% personnel, 25% public |
200 users 10% concurrent (20) Users are evenly distributed across catalogs. |
PROCESSES Not applicable - dynamic TOTAL RAM = 256 - 512MB Memory for IWR= 256 – 512 MB Memory for NT Server = 70 MB Memory for Web Server= 5 MB Memory for database drivers |
DISK SPACE Temporary disk space needed for report rendering to PDF (5X final report size) and final report storage. Temporary disk space for IWR= 1 GIG IWR Software= 100 MB Reports and Catalogs = 100 MB NT Server = 500 MB Database drivers TOTAL Disk Space= 1.7 GIG CPU # of PROCESSORS = 1 scalable to 2 PROCESSOR = 200+ MHz |