Requirements

Hardware and Operating System Requirements

On-Premise Hardware Requirements

The following outlines the minimum hardware requirements needed to run the Stewardship Tier.

• Operating System: Windows Server 2019 or 2016

• Processor Cores: 8

• RAM: 16GB (24GB recommended)

• Disk Space for the application: 100GB

NOTE: Additional Disk Space for project files (flat files, reports, etc) will be dependent on many factors. Syniti recommends starting with 500GB of disk space to cover the application and all related project files.

• Network: 4Gbps or faster LAN connection

• Network Latency to disk should be a sustained 5ms or less

• Throughput to disk needs to be 200MB/s per CPU Core

EXAMPLE: 8 CPU Core Server should have 1600MB/s Throughput

Hyperscaler - AWS Hardware Requirements

The following are the currently approved instances to host the SST Application and SQL Database roles.

• Application Server: C5d.4XL, R5d.4XL, i3.4XL, R5dn.4XL

• Database Server: R5d.4XL, i3.4XL, R5dn.4XL

• AWS RDS

  NOTE: If using AWS RDS as a hosted database backend for the Stewardship Tier:

  • The application database user account must be the same as the RDS administrator user account. This user account is set up when creating an RDS instance and is the only user that has access to database creation and other permissions that the Stewardship Tier requires to function.

  • The created RDS instance for use with the Stewardship Tier must be an instance type that supports at least 100 databases.

  • The Stewardship Tier does not support Multi-AZ Database Mirroring as AWS limits the database number for that type of deployment. This may be subject to change in the future at Amazon’s discretion. See this AWS documentation link for details: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_SQLServer.html#SQLServer.Concepts.General.FeatureSupport.Limits

  • Users are responsible for their own security configuration to allow the needed communication between the RDS instance and their Stewardship Tier application instance.

  • The RDS instance must be set to the same timezone as the application server.

    NOTE: For the 7.4.6 version of the Stewardship Tier, the source and target for CTS and Promote must both be RDS or both be non-RDS databases.

Disk Configuration:

• Disk SpeedType must be GP2 or faster

• OS Disk must be at least 250GB

• Application Disk must be at least 500GB

• Database Disk must be at least 1TB per Disk

  • SQL Server is required to be configured with multiple disks to support transaction log files and multiple Database data files.

NOTE: Hardware Profile Ephemeral Storage/Temporary Storage is required and will be used for TempDB, OS PageFile, and other temporary files.

Hyperscaler - Azure Hardware Requirements

The following are the currently approved instances to host the SST Application and SQL Database roles.

• App Server: Standard_DS13_v2 3, Standard_DS14_v2 3, Standard_E32s_v3 1, Standard_F32s_v2

• DB Server: Standard_E16s_v3 1, Standard_DS14_v2 3, Standard_L16s_v2, Standard_E32s_v3 1, Standard_L32s_v2

  NOTE: Azure SQL Managed Instance is not supported.

Disk Configuration:

• Disk Speed must be SSD Performance or faster. P30 Profile for Application and Data minimum. P15 Profile for OS minimum.

• OS Disk must be at least 250GB

• Application Disk must be at least 500GB

• Database Disk must be at least 1TB per Disk

  • SQL Server is required to be configured with multiple disks to support transaction log files and multiple Database data files.

    NOTE: Hardware Profile Ephemeral Storage/Temporary Storage is required and will be used for TempDB, OS PageFile, and other temporary files.

Software Requirements

The following are basic requirements for the Stewardship Tier application server. It is the responsibility of the client to install and license the required software.

• Operating System: Windows Server 2019 or 2016

• Microsoft IIS components as described in detail in the section Windows Server Component Requirements.

• Microsoft .Net Framework versions 4.8 must be installed. The applicable version depends on the underlying operating system version. 4.8 is required for proper alignment of the DBVT with SQL Server 2019.

The following SQL Server components must be installed on the application server:

• Management Tools—Complete,

• SQL Server Integration Services matching the version of SQL Server (requirement if using SSIS packages in Collect)

• Documentation Components (recommended)

• SQL Data Tools for Visual Studio 2017 (requirement if using SSIS packages in Collect)

  NOTE: SSDT Integration Services Subcomponent required for SSIS packages.

• SQL Server Native Client 11.0 driver (latest version)

NOTE: SSIS downloads are supported by:

• SQL Server 2016: Must have the associated SQL 2016 Integration Services installed for the specific version of SQL Server

• SQL Server 2017: Must have the associated SQL 2017 Integration Services installed for the specific version of SQL Server

• SQL Server 2019: Must have the associated SQL 2019 Integration Services installed for the specific version of SQL Server

NOTE: The following SAP products are certified with the Syniti Solutions7.4.6 release:

• SAP Information Platform Services 4.2 SP8 Patch 7 (14.2.8.3708)
• SAP Data Services 4.2 SP14 Patch 5 (14.2.14.2838)
• SAP Information Steward 4.2 SP14 Patch 5 (14.2.14.2834)

• All database drivers required to connect to external data sources

• If any Syniti cloud-based services will be used, the server must be able to establish outgoing connections to cloud sites located on the internet. This may require firewall exceptions for the specific port numbers used by the cloud services and/or proxy configuration.