Hi,

I am looking for the Amigopod sizing guide that is referenced in the 3.5.4 Amigopod release notes for sizing VMware environments for Amigopod.

I have looked everywhere (including here, support, KB's design docs, VRD, tech documentation etc) and nothing.

Can anyone point me to or post here the link to the sizing guide for Amigopod and VM installations?

Thanks.

It's usually on the Airwave support site.  Here's a PDF version of it.  Hope it helps.

-Mike

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Hi Mike,

Thanks, but thats the release notes, which I have and its in there that it references the Amigopod Sizing Guide, which is the document I am looking for.

I already have that RN....

Sorry about that!  I was thinking AirWave. :-)

I tried searching as well but didn't find anything.  You should reach out to your local SE.

-Mike

Amigopod VM Sizing Guide

The Amigopod ESX image is sized for very small deployments, 50 concurrent users or less. For larger customers, it is required to make VM resource modifications and software configuration changes. They are needed so Amigopod can scale to the number of concurrent users the server is licensed for. Without making the changes, the server will behave erratically such as slow loading pages, page timeouts, failed RADIUS authentications, and server crashes.

To increase the available disk space on a VM, please follow AP_TN-aIncreaseHD.pdf Technote. Hint: You do not expand the current partition. You have to add a second drive and use an Amigopod GUI tool to allocate the new space

1000 Concurrent Users

• Minimum VM Resource Specifications for 1000 Concurrent Users
  • Equivalent to AirWave Professional server
  • 2-4 CPU cores
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 100 GB Storage - Follow technote to resize

• Administrator -> System Control -> Database Configuration -> Options
  • shared_buffers = 256MB
  • max_connections = 100
  • bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 600
  • synchronous_commit = off

• RADIUS -> Server Configuration -> Server Options
  • thread.start_servers = 12
  • thread.max_servers = 32
  • sql.num_sql_socks = 32
  • sql.connect_failure_retry_delay = 5
  • max_request_time = 16
  • max_requests = 1024

• Administrator -> System Control -> Web Server
  • Set Maximum Clients to 384
  • Set HTTP timeout to 10 seconds
  • Enable persistent HTTP connections
  • Set Request Wait to 10 seconds

Restart services for the new changes to take effect.

2500 Concurrent Users

• Minimum VM Resource Specifications for 2500 Concurrent Users
  • Equivalent to AirWave Professional server
  • 4 CPU cores
  • 12 GB RAM
  • 150 GB Storage - Follow technote to resize

• Administrator -> System Control -> Database Configuration -> Options
  • shared_buffers = 512MB
  • max_connections = 200
  • bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 600
  • synchronous_commit = off

• RADIUS -> Server Configuration -> Server Options
  • thread.start_servers = 12
  • thread.max_servers = 64
  • sql.num_sql_socks = 64
  • sql.connect_failure_retry_delay = 5
  • max_request_time = 16
  • max_requests = 2048

• Administrator -> System Control -> Web Server
  • Set Maximum Clients to 512
  • Set HTTP timeout to 10 seconds
  • Enable persistent HTTP connections
  • Set Request Wait to 10 seconds

Restart services for the new changes to take effect.

5000 Concurrent Users

• Minimum VM Resource Specifications for 5000 Concurrent Users
  • 6 CPU cores
  • 24 GB RAM
  • 250 GB Storage - Follow technote to resize

• Administrator -> System Control -> Database Configuration -> Options
  • shared_buffers = 768MB
  • max_connections = 300
  • bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 600
  • synchronous_commit = off

• Administrator -> System Control -> System Config
  • net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_max = 262144

• RADIUS -> Server Configuration -> Server Options
  • thread.start_servers = 16
  • thread.max_servers = 100
  • sql.num_sql_socks = 100
  • sql.connect_failure_retry_delay = 5
  • max_request_time = 16
  • max_requests = 4096

• Administrator -> System Control -> Web Server
  • Set Maximum Clients to 1024
  • Set HTTP timeout to 10 seconds
  • Enable persistent HTTP connections
  • Set Request Wait to 10 seconds

Restart services for the new changes to take effect.

10000 Concurrent Users

• Minimum VM Resource Specifications for 10000 Concurrent Users
  • Equivalent to AirWave Enterprise server
  • 8 CPU cores
  • 48 GB RAM
  • 450 GB Storage - Follow technote to resize

• Administrator -> System Control -> Database Configuration -> Options
  • shared_buffers = 2048MB
  • max_connections = 300
  • bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 600
  • synchronous_commit = off

• Administrator -> System Control -> System Config
  • net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_max = 262144

• RADIUS -> Server Configuration -> Server Options
  • thread.start_servers = 16
  • thread.max_servers = 100
  • sql.num_sql_socks = 100
  • sql.connect_failure_retry_delay = 5
  • max_request_time = 16
  • max_requests = 4096

• Administrator -> System Control -> Web Server
  • Set Maximum Clients to 2000
  • Set HTTP timeout to 10 seconds
  • Enable persistent HTTP connections
  • Set Request Wait to 10 seconds

• Administrator -> System Control -> Web Application -> Resources Limits
  • Memory Limit: 512M

Restart services for the new changes to take effect.

Additional Notes

The Web Server Maximum Clients setting does not limit the concurrent users to that value. This setting restricts how many clients can access the captive portal pages hosted on Amigopod. Generally, the number of users accessing the web pages will be much smaller than the number of active sessions.

Every Apache client process spawned will consume approximately 10-12 MB. If you set the Maximum Clients value to 1024, Apache can consume over 10GB of memory alone. Please keep this in mind when selecting a value for Maximum clients. You need to consider how much total memory the system has and that other services such as RADIUS and the database will consume RAM as well.

The hard drive space requirements are suggestions. There are many sources that consume disk space including the data retention settings, how often new users are created, the number of sessions, and how often interim accounting updates are sent.

There will be many performance optimizations made in the 3.5 release.

Thanks Carlos,

That is EXACTLY what I need.

You are a champ.

No problems, Ill post a copy to the aruba support site also

Carlos,

What are the minimum specs and recommended specs for smaller amigopod 100 user VM server? I want to build the VM right the first time.

 1 quad core cpu? 2 quad core cpu's?  and how much memory, hard drive space?

Thanks.

-Sam

A recently discovered issue related to sizing...

One thing to tweak for LDAP/AD deployments is the number of LDAP connections. The default is 5. A rough rule of thumb would be 15 for every 1000 concurrent users. To put things in perspective, the default number of maximum LDAP connections (total) that an Active Directory domain controller will accept is 5000.

This setting is in the AD authentication server under "RADIUS->Authentication->Authentication Servers->Your AD server entry (Edit)->Advanced Options". In the text box, enter: ldap_connections_number = X

Obviously, replace X with whatever number of ldap connections you will need. This number need not exceed the value of "RADIUS->Server Configuration->Advanced Configuration->thread.max_servers"

This setting "thread.max_servers" value should be configured dynamically by Amigopod based on system resources available.