I've just joined an end-user company that is operating several TM1 servers for around 1500 worldwide users, all with exactly the same financial planning applications but each managing a geographical scope so that there are rarely over 200 declared users per server. Those "regional" servers then consolidate their data to one conso server.
All the servers have at least 288GB RAM but most are over 400GO with a max of 512GO. Even with that sizing we are seeing memory peaks of over 80% so are having to plan upgrades to 1TB.
The above to me seems excessive for a budget and forecasting application, well at least from what I've seen from previous experiences.
My questions therefore are pretty general:
- In your different experiences what is the largest setup you've seen, both in terms of users and in terms of RAM, and was there any justification for this (i.e. particular complex model or simply a very badly designed model)?
- For financial planning applications of 150-200 users, what was the typical size of RAM of the servers?
I simply want to get a feel as to whether there are other companies out there with servers that the NASA would be proud of
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Thanks