[ome-devel] Scaling Omero for 300-400 users

[Josh Moore]

On Feb 19, 2013, at 10:57 PM, Swe Aung wrote:

> Hi

Hi Swe,

> We are planning to upgrade our omero setup in our university. We estimate
> users to be 300-400 and simultaneous users to be 20-100. We have quite a
> variety of files in lif, tiff, nd2, svs and so on. Average file size is
> 80-200MB and sometimes we have big file as large as 5GB in size.
> 
> Our current set up is as below
> Omero 4.4.4 with ice 3.3 running on Redhat Virtual Machine (single node,
> 2x2.2Ghz vcpu, 8GB memory)
> Postgres Sql 9.0.3 on a database server (separate box)
> NFS mount drive for data
> 
> As of now, the server is not utilised yet, but we are expecting to grow in
> next few months.
> We are seeking your expertise to scale our omero setup in this following
> area
> 1. recommended hardware spec (cpu, memory, disk space)
> 2. clustering solution
> 3. load balancing / failover
> 4. Will omero benefit from GPU if the server has?
> 5. Can we manage the load better if we cluster multiple omero servers (vm)?
> 6. documentation for clustering solution, load balancing
> 7. documentation for performance tuning of omero
> 
> If you require more information, please kindly let me know.
> thanks in adv.

My response on the forum must have just passed your incoming email. Please see:

    https://www.openmicroscopy.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4471

~J.

> regards,
> --
> Swe Aung