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Hello all,

I would like some input on building a new spiceworks server for our company. I’m going to create a virtual server and I would like to know how much disk space to allot and how much ram to dedicate to it. Any input would be helpful.

Thank you,

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I currently run my SW install on a Win 8.1 with 1.5g of ram with only 30g of space.

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It all depends on what else this box will do, if it is for SW only and only for collecting inventory information, it would be fine with a lower spec than one existing on a shared server hosting the helpdesk feature and having input from remote collectors.

How many devices are you scanning, what features will you use? do you have a spec in mind?

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how many devices?

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The one I have running at work scans 4 subnets, has 1 vCPU and 4GB ram.

We are not in and out of the application daily, in fact hardly ever.

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http://community.spiceworks.com/help/Spiceworks_Requirements#Recommended

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I’m about to do this. Moving a install from running on a VM that runs other services to a deadicated machine (old Server)

We’re hitting close to 1000 devices (more if you count all the employee phones/tablets). 45 subnets.

It’s time to do a clean start and get it set-up correctly and use more features of it too :slight_smile:

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Thank You all for your replies.

Rod-IT your link was exactly what I was looking for. Presently, we have 150+ workstations on 3 subnets and we have about 20 users using SW to submit tickets.

Jon

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If you virtualize, consider it is a database, so you want enough resources to scale as needed. Getting the best performance demands SSD (even consumer grade) or 10-15K drives. I’ve seen an instance from a user here on Spiceworks Community that his install consisted of installing the Spiceworks database (not the OS) to a RAM Drive. Performance was as fast as it could get. Of course this gets complicated (at least to me) in a virtual environment vs a physical one. Physical Server with a RAM Drive is easy to setup and manage.

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http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/54633-turbocharge-spiceworks

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I am running mine with 1000+ devices on Windows 2008 R2 virtual with 100 GB storage (expandable), 16 GB Ram, and 4 vCPU. I did performance testing and this is what worked best for us and adding more resources did not seem to increase performance. I am running the storage on 15K drives in a SAN that has other virtuals on it. The other virtuals I placed on it are low resource systems and I have had no problem. I have tested the difference between the Spiceworks server on it’s own drives and with each additional server and the performance hit Spiceworks took was minimal for us.