Deploying to a Virtual Environment

You can deploy Jive to a virtual platform by setting up the environment as shown in the following Best Practices and Recommended Configuration sections. After your environment is set up as desired, you can perform the Linux Installation.

Best Practices

Following a few best practices improves the performance of Jive when it is installed in a virtualized environment. Here are a few suggestions that you can use to optimize the virtualization technology.

Install SLES or RHEL as a guest operating system in a VMware environment per VMware instructions.
Enable NTP following VMware's Timekeeping best practices for Linux guests.
Use the configuration outlined in the following Recommended Configuration section to install Jive.
Use memory reservation for performance reasons, especially if your virtual environment is set up to overcommit.

Recommended Configuration

For Each Component	Recommendations
Guest Operating System	RHEL SLES
Web/Application x2	3 GB RAM 2 vCPUs 6 GB OS Disk (Minimum) usr/local/jive should have its own disk. How large it is depends on the scale of your installation.
Activity Engine	3 GB RAM 2 vCPU
Document Conversion Feature (standalone and optional)	3-4 GB RAM 2 vCPUs
Cache (standalone and optional)	3 GB RAM 2 vCPU
Database	4 GB RAM and 2 GB CPU (for large instances we recommend a non-virtualized database). 4 GB RAM and 2 GB CPU (for smaller instances you can use a virtualized database if desired).