Guidelines for choosing and configurating hardware platform🔗
You can calculate the minimum hardware platform requirements online on eocortex.com, on the Software for IP Cameras / Calculator page.
While selecting the hardware platform consider, if necessary, the potential increase (near future expansion plan) in the number of channels.
The drive subsystem must comply with the design load. It is recommended to use RAID to increase system speed and reliability; take into account the performance in case of drive failure. The server drive subsystem must also provide a certain reserve bandwidth (read rate) to allow convenient archive search.
It is recommended to install two network interface controllers (NIC); configure one of them for camera subnet and another for Eocortex Client requests.
Benefits:
camera isolation;
reduces network traffic in a public network.
If network storages (NAS, SAN) are used to store archives, we recommend installing an additional NIC for these purposes.
Provide reserve computer resources in the amount of 3% of CPU load per connected client for fast client request serving. The server drive subsystem must also provide a certain reserve bandwidth (read rate) to allow convenient archive search.
When using the hot backup function consider that in case of failure of one of the servers, its load is distributed on the others. For example, if there are only 2 servers, they work together and "backup" each other; each must have a capacity sufficient to handle all video streams from all cameras.
To achieve maximum performance disable processor power-saving technologies before installing the OS:
SpeedStep or EIST for Intel
Cool'n'Quiet for AMD
This setting can be configured in BIOS, usually in Advanced / CPU.
If you use SATA-drives, do not forget to set AHCI value for SATA Mode. This setting can be configured in BIOS, usually in Advanced / SATA, but only for controllers that support this mode.