Hardware Requirements

Proficy Historian for AWS

Proficy Historian for AWS is deployed in an Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instance in Elastic Kubernetes Cluster (EKS) inside a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). During deployment choose an instance type based on your requirement. Our benchmarking results suggest that M5.2XLarge supports up to 15 million samples per minute. You can choose an instance of lower capacity based on the rate of collection.

Collectors

You can install collectors on an on-premises Windows machine. Or, you can install them on a machine in the same VPC where the Historian server is deployed, or you can choose to deploy in a different VPC.

The following table provides the hardware requirements for installing collectors on an on-premises Windows machine.
Hardware Component Recommendation
RAM 8 GB
Disk size 80 GB

Sizing Recommendations

We recommend the following configuration of EC2 instances depending on the type of environment or the volume of data.

Environment or Volume of Data Recommendation
Production Environment with write rate < 3MM samples/min C5.XLarge
Production Environment with write rate 3 - 10MM samples/min M5.XLarge
Production Environment with write rate 10 – 15MM samples/min M5.2XLarge
Production Environment with Scheduled Export job running M5 series (M5.Large for smaller systems and M5.Xlarge and M5.2Xlarge for bigger systems respectively).
Test environment C5.XLarge