Hardware requirement for maximum connection.

[viet_fpt]

Dear all,

How much maximum connections that Wowza server can do? Notice that 2Mbps for each connection.
Wowza will be used for live streaming.

Please tell me the hardware requirement.

Thanks all.

[JasonH]

Hi
Bandwidth is normally the factoring issue for maximum connections, the minimum spec for Wowza is this:
System Requirements

Minimum recommended production hardware

CPU: Single Quad Core, 3.00 GHz or better
RAM: 4GB
Disk: 2 or more in RAID 0 (striping)
Network: 1Gb Ethernet

Supported operating systems

Windows® (XP, Vista, 7, Server 2003 & 2008)
Linux (all distributions)
Solaris
Mac® OS
Unix

Java (required)

Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 or greater or Java Development Kit (JDK) 6 or greater

With this hardware you could support 500 connections having a 2Mbps stream,
realistically you would only get 90% of the 1Gb Ethernet speed so 450 connections would be more accurate.

How many connections do you intend to have?

Jason

[viet_fpt]

Hi
Bandwidth is normally the factoring issue for maximum connections, the minimum spec for Wowza is this:
System Requirements

Minimum recommended production hardware

CPU: Single Quad Core, 3.00 GHz or better
RAM: 4GB
Disk: 2 or more in RAID 0 (striping)
Network: 1Gb Ethernet

Supported operating systems

Windows® (XP, Vista, 7, Server 2003 & 2008)
Linux (all distributions)
Solaris
Mac® OS
Unix

Java (required)

Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 or greater or Java Development Kit (JDK) 6 or greater

With this hardware you could support 500 connections having a 2Mbps stream,
realistically you would only get 90% of the 1Gb Ethernet speed so 450 connections would be more accurate.

How many connections do you intend to have?

Jason

Hi Jason,
Thank you for your advice, I intend to have 1000 connections.
please tell me about the hardware requirement.

And here is an example for 1000 connections, is it ok ?

CPU: Intel® Xeon® Quad Core Processor E5620, 2.40GHz,
RAM: 8GB
HDD: 2 HDD (RAID 1).
NIC: 4 x 1Gbps (bonding NIC)

Thanks.

[randall]

Viet_fpt,

That looks like it would be fine.

[viet_fpt]

Viet_fpt,

That looks like it would be fine.

Thank you, randall

[rrlanham]

Wowza provides a load test tool that we recommend using before you go into production. You can get this by request to test@wowza.com. There is a document to sign and return.

Richard