Server types

Infor EPM performance is dependent on many factors, including the complexity of the calculations, available hardware, and number of concurrent users. Although Infor EPM can be installed on a single server, it can also be distributed over multiple servers to balance concurrent user and processing loads.

The distribution over multiple computers depends on your business needs and usage characteristics.

This section offers hardware recommendations for single server installation and for distributed installation which scales to multiple servers.

All recommendations are for production environments running on 64-bit operating system servers where more than 8 GB memory is required. We used at least 4 core processors in our tests. You can use similar or better hardware.

Although all services can be installed on a single server, common levels of user load normally require that the services be installed on dedicated computers responsible for specific tasks.

This table shows the dedicated server types that can be used to build an enterprise architecture to host users figures from small to large:

Server type Description Host/Connected to
Database server We recommend a dedicated server to host all relational farm databases. Farm databases (Repository, Configuration, Log)

Integration database

Designer database
Primary server All Infor EPM services managers and workers are installed on this computer except those installed on the scaling or OLAP server. Farm databases

Business database
OLAP database server We recommend running OLAP databases on servers dedicated to OLAP only. OLAP database
Scaling server We recommend the worker processes that have the biggest loads are installed on the scaling server. Typically, these worker processes have the biggest load:
  • Dashboards Service worker
  • Application Studio Service worker
  • Application Engine Service worker

Infor EPM scales horizontally. That means as the number of concurrent users increases, you add more scaling servers.