VIVO hardware requirements (in progress)

There is no single preferred configuration for VIVO. Your needs will depend on anticipated size of your VIVO and server load.

Server(s)

VIVO may be hosted on one or more physical servers, on virtual servers, or in the cloud.

Dual virtual server example (Cornell):

• vivoprod01: HTTPD and Tomcat, 16G of RAM, 2 cores with 2.67 GHz and 12Mb of cache; 64b Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• vivoprod02: MySQL, 8G of RAM, 2 cores with 2.67 GHz and 12Mb of cache; 64b Red Hat Enterprise Linux

MySQL

• MySQL 14.12 distribution 5.0.95 – very likely the RHEL standard distribution

Tomcat

• version:
• sample server.xml
• setting memory parameters

Java