Sonatype CLM Server is typically deployed on a dedicated server. More specific hardware requirements are ultimately a function of the deployment architecture, the primary usage patterns and the scale of deployment.
With these influencing factors in mind, we recommend a modern processor speed with at least 8 CPU cores and 8GB of physical RAM for initial setup. A minimum of 6GB of process space should be available to the CLM server. Additional RAM can improve the performance due to decreased disk caching.
As an example a Sonatype CLM Server deployment at Sonatype is using a Dual Intel Xeon E5620 with 2.4Ghz, 12M Cache, 5.86 GT/s QPI, Turbo, HT.
Storage requirements range with the number of applications projected to use the CLM server. For less than 1000 applications 200GB is recommended. Between 1000 and 2000 applications we suggest to use 500GB. Above 2000 applications we suggest to provide 1TB of storage.
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Monitoring disk-space usage will help you gauge the storage needs in your actual deployment and react to growing demands in time. |
Sonatype CLM Server is an I/O intensive application and disk speed will affect the performance of the CLM server considerably. We therefore recommend to use local drives or SAN usage. Usage of network mapped storage via NFS or similar is not recommended. It is important to consider the I/O load when running CLM server in a virtual machine, especially when other virtual machines on the same host are running other I/O intensive applications e.g. the Nexus repository manager.
Development, test or evaluation deployments can be scaled smaller than the above recommendations and will continue to function, while a minor performance degradation can be observed.
The following ports are used for communication and should be addressed according to your Firewall configuration.
