Simscope Quickstart Guide
Contact & Help
If you would like a walkthrough, screen share, or any help installing Simscope and the Tunnel, please contact Payton via email or phone:
Payton Quackenbush
payton@verops.com
1-512-573-1905
Quickstart Intro
This guide (sections 1.1 through 1.5) walks through setup of:
This process can take anywhere from 1 hour to an afternoon, so please make sure you have a few hours to walk through this guide.
Database Storage Requirements
Simscope manages its own database (DB) to store and query all data.
An approximation of how much size you need for Simscope is:
→ 1 kB per simulation
# For example, with 150k simulations per day, this would store approximately
> 150*1000 * 1kB → 150MB / day
Volume
The DB volume choice affects database performance:
| Volume | Performance |
|---|---|
| Local disk | High |
| VM Local Storage | High/Medium |
| NFS (Netapp) | Medium/Low |
Note: if you have large volume activity (simulations), or if you have saturated network or NFS volume, Simscope is recommended to run on either Local Disk or VM Local Storage, instead of NFS.
One nice benefit of VM Local Storage is usually they can be set up to run VM snapshots, for easy backup/recovery.
Machine/OS Requirements
Simscope Server (daemon) and Tunnel server run on Linux x86-64 platforms:
| Minimum | Recommended | Performance | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform | x86-64, 2-core | 4-core | 4+ cores |
| Physical Memory | 2 GB | 8+ GB | 32+ GB |
| Disk Space | 5 GB | 100 GB | 1 TB |
| Simulations/Day | 25k | 500k+ |
- Note: the Simscope Performance profile is targeted at large workloads of 500k+ simulations per day.
Linux distributions supported:
- CentOS 6 or higher (x86-64)
- RHEL 6 or higher (x86-64)
- Ubuntu (x86-64)
- SuSE (x86-64)
Diagram of Simscope, RabbitMQ, and the Tunnel
Here's a basic diagram of the workflow for Simscope. The blue boxes are related to Simscope.
