Complete Atlassian Server Hardware specification

Leo Lewis1

Hello everyone,

My company is currently studying the eventuality to use a couple of Atlassian tools (let's say at least Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, Crowd, FishEye) and I would like to know if you have some recommendation for the server hardware specification (number of servers / server hardware).

We will do a preliminary test with < 20 users, but we would like to quickly use the system within the whole company, which could means > 5000 users.

I already found some relevant information about this matter for Confluence and Bamboo at

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BAMBOO/Hardware+sizing+considerations

and

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Example+Size+and+Hardware+Specifications+From+Customer+Survey

but nothing equivalent for Jira for example.

Does anyone have some experience of such a case, and would be kind enough to share it with me. Or just provide me some relevant resources about Jira and Crowd.

Thanks in advance,

Leo Lewis

George Barnett

Hi Leo,

I guess as with everything, the answer is it depends on your usage. I would look at a machine like this to start:

• 2 * 6 Core Xeon Nehelem
• 32G Ram
• 8 * 15K drives in Raid 10 (or 4 SSD's in R10, depending on your disk space requirements)

SSD's are good if you can afford them, but if you have enough free ram for buffers and a good raid card, they don't make a massive difference.

I would suggest you start by putting JIRA and Confluence and Crowd and the DB server onto this same machine. As your usage grows as you bring online more users, you could then purchase additional machines to offload the more used apps onto. At that stage, you will also have a good idea with your workload and usage profile.

For Fisheye it really depends on how big your repository is. Indexing requires fast disks for the indexes and tends to hit your repo quiet hard, so SSDs do help here. I would start by putting Fisheye onto a machine on its own given its indexing needs

For Bamboo you may need to purchase a machine with more disk space, eg say 8 or 12 2Tb drives for artefact storage. This will depend of course on how many plans and how many artefacts you wish to keep.

Hope this helps!

George