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Overview

 

Plato Data Analyzer Professional Edition is a client-server application and therefore requires a little forethought before a configuration is decided on. The following information details installation of the client-server components to a single computer or to multiple computers (one where the server components are installed to a server computer and the client programs are installed to a user's workstation). If there will be more than one PDA Professional client or it is decided that the database files should reside on a computer other than the PDA Professional Client, the recommendation is to dedicate a server computer for hosting the database engine and files.

 

PDA Professional does not need an application server, but if dictated by organizational policies, server files can be installed on another server than where SQL Server is hosted. Most typical installs host the server files and SQL server on the same server.

 

Server Requirements

 

▪Hardware: We do not recommend sharing the server with other applications as if one is running a resource intensive task it may slow other application and vice-versa. It will also be very difficult if to share our server with another vendor as it may cause support / upgrade / rights and other related issues.

 

▪Operating System: Microsoft Windows. Certain version of SQL Server can be installed on specific operating system versions. Please refer to Microsoft documentation for other OS requirements for SQL Server.

 

▪SQL Server:

 

Version 5.0.3/5.0.5: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 / 2008R2 / 2012 with its own instance recommended.

Version 6.X: Microsoft SQL Server 2016 / 2017 / 2019 with its own instance recommended.

 

▪Net Framework:

 

Version 5.0.3/5.0.5: .Net 4 or better.

Version 6.X: .Net 4.6.1 or better.

 

▪Hard Disk space: Refer to SQL Server documentation for its hard disk requirements. Additional hard drive space is required to accommodate the creation of topics, review templates, and worksheets. There is no hard formula for calculating this, as review template size varies. A very rough estimate might be for every 10,000 worksheets against 10 review templates having an average of 50 criterion, allow for one 1GB of space.

 

▪Worksheet Transaction Size: There is no hard formula for calculating this, as review templates size varies. A very rough estimate for one worksheet having an average of 50 criterion and 4 criterion fields, transaction size will be 100 KB.

 

▪Virtual Server: The server components can be hosted in a Microsoft Virtual Server and VMware Virtual Server.

 

Client Requirements

 

 

 

Citrix / Terminal Server Requirements

 

PDA Professional client can be installed on a Citrix or a Terminal server.

 

▪Product: Citrix and all versions of Windows Terminal Server

 

▪Hardware: Can be installed on the same server which is hosting the PDA Professional Server Components or it can be installed on a separate server

 

▪Memory: See memory requirements above for particular version