The following hardware appliances may be supplied for production use.
The production specification for the HP ProLiant DL380 G6 appliance is shown in the table below. This is the preferred production appliance hardware.
| Component |
Description |
| Server |
HP ProLiant DL380 G6 |
| Chassis |
2U Standard Rack Mount |
| CPU |
2 x Intel Xeon E5520 – Minimum CPU spec: 2.26GHz, 8MB Intel Smart Cache |
| RAM |
HP 18GB PC3-10600 (3x4GB & 3x2GB Kits DDR3-1333) |
| Disk Controller |
HP SFF SAS
HP Smart Array P410i, 512MB cache, BBWC (Battery Backed Write Cache) |
| Disks |
2 x 146GB SAS 10,000rpm – RAID1 configuration for the Operating System & Applications.
6 x 146GB SAS 10,000rpm – 6 x 146GB disks in a RAID5 configuration for the Foundation database. |
| Power Supply |
2 x Hot Swap Redundant Power Supply 460W 12 Volt |
The production specification for the HP ProLiant DL380 G5 appliance is shown in the table below. This is the preferred production appliance hardware.
| Component |
Description |
| Server |
HP ProLiant DL380 G5 |
| Chassis |
2U Standard Rack Mount |
| CPU |
2 x Intel Xeon Quad Core – Minimum CPU spec: 2.0GHz, 1333MHz Front Side Bus, 12MB (2x6MB) Level 2 cache |
| RAM |
HP 16GB PC2-5300 (4x4GB(2xGB) Kits DDR2-667(PC2-5300)) |
| Disk Controller |
HP SFF SAS
HP Smart Array P400, 512MB cache, BBWC (Battery Backed Write Cache) |
| Disks |
2 x 146GB SAS 10,000rpm – RAID1 configuration for the Operating System & Applications.
6 x 146GB SAS 10,000rpm – 6 x 146GB disks in a RAID5 configuration for the Foundation database. |
| Power Supply |
2 x Hot Swap Redundant Power Supply |
The production specification for the HP ProLiant DL385 G2 appliance is shown in the table below.
| Component |
Description |
| Server |
HP ProLiant DL385 G2 |
| Chassis |
2U Standard Rack Mount |
| CPU |
2 x Dual-Core AMD Opteron Processor 2218 – Minimum CPU spec: 2.6GHz, 1000MHz Front Side Bus, 1MB Level 2 cache. |
| RAM |
Large Enterprise version - 16GB |
| Disk Controller |
HP SFF SAS
HP Smart Array P400, 512MB cache, BBWC (Battery Backed Write Cache) |
| Disks |
2 x 72.8GB SAS 10,000rpm – RAID1 configuration for the Operating System & Applications.
6 x 146GB SAS 10,000rpm – 6 x 146GB disks in a RAID5 configuration for the Foundation database. |
| Power Supply |
2 x Hot Swap Redundant Power Supply |
The production specification for the V40z appliance is shown in the table below. This was the hardware appliance supplied before that described above. The V40z appliance is no longer supplied new.
| Component |
Description |
| Server |
Sun Fire V40z Opteron |
| Chassis |
3U Standard Rack Mount |
| CPU |
2 x AMD Opteron 852 (2.6GHz, 1MB L1 cache) |
| RAM |
8Gb (4 x 2Gb DDR400 SDRAM) |
| Disk Controller |
Ultra320 SCSI |
| Disks |
2 x 72.8GB Seagate SCSI 15,000rpm – 2 x 72.8GB disks in a software RAID1 configuration for the Operating System and Applications
3 x 146GB Seagate SCSI 15,000rpm – 3 x 146GB disks in a software RAID5 configuration for the the Foundation database |
| Power Supply |
2 x Hot Swap Redundant Power Supply |
The virtual appliance is also used in production. See Tideway Foundation Virtual Appliance Specification for more information.
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