Hardware requirements for users

[crafael01]

Are there additional hardware requirements that accounts for the number of users logging onto the XI User GUI?

Following the guidelines provided, I've set up some XI servers and things run well until people start logging onto the GUI and surfing around. When more than 5 users or so are all browsing the UI, things get real slow and the load starts going up.

Without going into a lot of detail about all the systems configuration, is there a general rule on determining this?

[tmcdonald]

Without going into a lot of detail about all the systems configuration, is there a general rule on determining this?

A general rule? More hardware.

A useful or specific rule?

Not really. Depending on what they are doing it could be many things. Generating reports and graphs will heavily tax the database in terms of reading, while adding new configs will do a lot of writing. If 10 people are sitting there watching the overview, it will be much smoother than if everyone is trying to view trends. So it might be less of a hardware problem and more of a people problem. Maybe if a bunch of people are trying to write config at the same time, designate a "maintainer" and have them all forward the changes to this one person. This avoids having multiple apply configs at once, and can help reduce errors from duplicate entries, etc.