Sync On-Premises Server Planning Guide: Kony Fabric Sync Server Installation Options

Kony Fabric Sync Server Installation Options

You need to decide how you want to install and configure it to provide the best possible performance before you develop an application that accesses Kony Fabric Sync Server. The installation and configuration choices that produce the best performance depend on your reporting requirements, resources, and preferences. Below are the typical installations for a Development, Quality Assurance (QA) and Production environments.

In the below environment setups, you can see how Kony Server (Kony Middleware) can be deployed alongside the Kony Fabric Sync Server. There is no dependency between these Servers but the diagram just illustrates a possible scenario when you deploy both in the same environment.

With respect to the database setup (especially in case of persistent Kony Fabric Sync strategy), the Console Database and Enterprise Database can be hosted on the same physical hardware or different hardware. They can even be co-located in the same physical database instance (as separate schemas). You can decide to host them as separate instances or in same schemas on a case by case basis.

Standard Development Environment Setup

Install all components on one computer only for a single developer or proof of concept or in demonstration environments where the user load is small. In this setup both the Database and Kony Fabric Sync Server are installed on the same computer.

Hardware configuration for Application and Database Servers

Operating System	Specification per Instance
Windows	Windows Server 2008 / Windows 10 / Windows 8 Professional / Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit, 4 Core
Linux	CentOS 6.5, Red Hat Linux Enterprise 6.0, 64-bit, 4 Core
Minimum Recommended RAM	8 GB or more
Minimum Recommended Hard Disk Space	40 GB or more

Standard QA or Certification Environment Setup

A QA environment represents a very close replica of the actual production environment setup except that the number of server instances and the capacity of each of the instances are lesser than those in Production Environment setup. In this setup, Kony Fabric Sync Server and the Database are installed on separate computers.

Note: The below figure indicates that the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) termination that happens at the load balancer level. This is a recommended setup for the Kony Fabric Sync server installation. If the Enterprise policies mandate that SSL terminates at individual Tomcat / Application server instance, then you need to setup SSL certificate accordingly for each server.

Hardware configuration for Application and Database Servers

Operating System	Specification
Windows	Windows Server 2008 / Windows 10 / Windows 8 Professional / Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit, 4 Core
Linux	CentOS 6.5, Red Hat Linux Enterprise 6.0, 64-bit, 4 Core
Minimum Recommended RAM	16 GB or more
Minimum Recommended Hard Disk Space	40 GB or more

Standard Production Environment Setup

A production environment represents the setup that live / actual users access. The capacity of the servers is definitely much more than Development or QA setup. The number of instances also vary or may be more, depending upon the number of concurrent users the system plans to support.

Note: The below figure indicates that the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) terminates at the load balancer level. This is a recommended setup for the Kony Fabric Sync server installation. If the Enterprise policies mandate that SSL terminates at individual Tomcat / Application server instance, then you need to setup SSL certificate accordingly for each server.

Hardware configuration for Application and Database Servers

Operating System	Specification per Instance
Windows	Windows Server 2008 / Windows 10 / Windows 8 Professional / Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit, 4 Cores
Linux	CentOS 6.5, Red Hat Linux Enterprise 6.0, 64-bit, 4 Core
Recommended RAM	32 GB or more
Minimum Recommended Hard Disk Space	80 GB or more