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Question by Viet Loi · Feb 22, 2012 at 11:31 AM · tutorials

Hardware requirement for maximum connection.

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.
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Answer by Jason Hilton · Feb 22, 2012 at 10:58 AM

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
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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.
avatar image Tony Andreoli · May 15, 2014 at 09:40 AM 0
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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


Given the "High Load" recommendation from the Wowza Website is:

CPU: Dual Quad-Core or a single Hex-Core, 3.00 GHz or better

RAM: 16-32GB

Disk: 2 or more in RAID 0 (striping)

Network: 10Gbps Ethernet

How many users will this support?

Thank you.
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Answer by Richard Lanham · Feb 23, 2012 at 02:18 PM

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
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Answer by Richard Lanham · May 15, 2014 at 03:14 PM

In terms of bitrate, it might support as much as 5gbs, which is a Java limitation. So if your streams average 1mbs, that is ~5000 playback clients. Of course, again, you would have to test your actual server/network using the load test tool, or monitoring utilization in production. You must be properly tuned. And to achieve maximum levels you may have to tune your server and network in other ways outside Wowza.

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Answer by Randall Auriemma · Feb 22, 2012 at 07:32 PM

Viet_fpt,

That looks like it would be fine.
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Viet_fpt,

That looks like it would be fine.


Thank you, randall

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