Planning

To help determine the correct sizing for a Tranzman Appliance, it is recomended that the Recorder is used to help better understand the current environment.

One installation of Tranzman Appliance can be used to convert many environments, however, the following requirements need to be met.

RAM

• Minimum of 8GB of RAM.
• Additional 1GB of RAM is required for every tape drive connected to the Appliance.

CPU

• Minimum 4 core Intel CPU is required.
• Additional 1 core for every tape drive connected to the Appliance.
• Additional cores required for multiple conversions at the same time.
• AMD processors are not supported at this moment.

Network

• 1Gbit minimum connection required.
• 10Gbit connection recommended to ensure that duplication can drive destination media at a reasonable speed.
• 2 x 1Gbit connections (per tape drive) can be used if no 10Gbit NIC is present.
• If multiple links are used, aggregation is needed to provide maximum throughput.

Storage

• 3GB local disk for OS Installation.
• Local/SAN attached disks needed for temporary staging of converted images, sized according to volume of recoveries to accommodate at any one time.
• Data Volume 2 x the size of all environment catalogs. (Origin and Destination)
• Database Volume should be the combined total number of images from environments x 500 bytes.
• Swap Volume 2 x Memory Size. (8GB RAM = 16GB of Swap)
• Logs Volume 25% of database volume.