Scaling Out your ProjectWise System

Transcription

1 Scaling Out your ProjectWise System Marty Nickel, Senior Systems Architect Project Delivery, Americas Bentley Systems, Incorporated 2016 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

2 Bentley Systems, Incorporated Marty Nickel, Senior Systems Architect Project Delivery, Americas

3 Agenda Database Networks Load Balancing Caching Servers Archiving Automation of Tasks Backup/Archive Bentley Systems, Incorporated

4 Database Database Database Bentley Systems, Incorporated 2016 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

5 Scale your database with your ProjectWise System!!! Bentley Systems, Incorporated

6 Indications of a Slow Database Slow folder navigation is the first sign Errors in dmskrnl logs: :34:56,089 WARN [0x00000cb4] pwise.database - Statement execution took seconds, exceeds performance threshold of seconds. 'SELECT COUNT (*) FROM dms_nlst where o_sentto = 7122 and o_status = 1' :34:56,266 WARN [0x000010d0] pwise.database - Statement execution took seconds, exceeds performance threshold of seconds. 'SELECT COUNT (*) FROM dms_nlst where o_sentto = 5338 and o_status = 1' :35:32,270 WARN [0x00002ce0] pwise.database - Statement execution took seconds, exceeds performance threshold of seconds. 'SELECT COUNT (*) FROM dms_nlst where o_sentto = 521 and o_status = 1' :35:32,399 WARN [0x ] pwise.database - Statement execution took seconds, exceeds performance threshold of seconds. 'select o_value from dms_rtv where o_rtvno =?' :35:33,220 WARN [0x00002a70] pwise.database - Statement execution took seconds, exceeds performance threshold of seconds. 'select o_intval from dms_ucfg where o_userno =? and o_paramno =?' Bentley Systems, Incorporated

7 How can I check to see if my dba is doing his job? Bentley Systems, Incorporated

8 How do I prove my dba wrong? Bentley Systems, Incorporated

9 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

10 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

11 Key Points on Databases Dedicated Database Server if possible If the database is slow the users will be the first to complain A powerful database is needed Lots of CPU and RAM Fast Disks Follow Microsoft/Oracle Best Practices Updating Statistics and Rebuilding Indexes regularly 1x a week for small firms 3xs a week for medium firms Every day for large firms Bentley Systems, Incorporated

12 Network Bentley Systems, Incorporated 2016 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

13 Latency Bentley Systems, Incorporated

14 Bandwidth is like the lanes on a highway Bentley Systems, Incorporated

15 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

16 Key Points on Networks ProjectWise will be effected by high latency >300ms latency and ProjectWise will suffer greatly High Bandwidth + Low Latency = Better ProjectWise Performance QOS (Quality of Service) is important for the network traffic Determines the priority of the ProjectWise traffic The better the connection the better ProjectWise will run. Directly connecting to a hosted solution may be better due to internet connectivity Bentley Systems, Incorporated

17 Load Balancing Bentley Systems, Incorporated 2016 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

18 Load Balancing your Integration Servers Storage on a SAN Load Balancer Indexing/Thumb nails/file Props Indexing/Thumb nails/file Props Bentley Systems, Incorporated

19 Automated File Processing Load Balancing Bentley Systems, Incorporated

20 Key Points on Clustering ~500 concurrently connected users per Integration Server If over 50% of memory utilization add another Integration Server Slower access will indicate this Makes upgrades much easier Keeps your ProjectWise system up all the time If your Indexing/Thumbnails/File Properties are not keeping up Remember every time a document gets checked out/in it gets marked for reprocessing Fastest known processing time is ~251,000 in a 24 hour period! Bentley Systems, Incorporated

21 Caching Servers Bentley Systems, Incorporated 2016 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

22 Caching Server Servers Check In/Out & Update Files Inactive ProjectWise Connection Datasource Transactions Server Virginia USA Central Data Center London, England Bentley Systems, Incorporated

23 Storage Server at Project Site Servers Check In/Out & Update Files Inactive ProjectWise Connection Datasource Transactions Server Virginia USA Central Data Center Pune, India * ProjectWise Design Integration application servers, SQL/Oracle DB s, publishing servers, distribution servers and web servers can be on-premises, cloud provisioned by Bentley or a hybrid combination of the two deployment options Bentley Systems, Incorporated

24 Key Points on Caching to take to your Users If there are more then 5-10 users in an office, add a caching server The first piece for increased performance Use fetchfiles.exe to prepopulate the cache If the connection is slow in a remote office, think about putting a storage area there Bentley Systems, Incorporated

25 Archiving Bentley Systems, Incorporated 2016 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

26 POW POW POWERSHELL!!! Bentley Systems, Incorporated

27 Key Points on Archiving Only active work should be in your datasource Lean and mean Use PowerShell to archive old data Can go to another datasource or disk Can modify the data when archived like no versions, read only, etc Able to run through a variety of ways Remove old projects that have been over for years Bentley Systems, Incorporated

28 Backup/Recovery Bentley Systems, Incorporated 2016 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

29 Mirroring your Environment Primary Secondary Bentley Systems, Incorporated

30 Automation of Tasks Bentley Systems, Incorporated 2016 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

31 Key Points on PowerShell Primarily meant for ProjectWise Administrators Most operations require an admin account Automate many administrative tasks Reports Lots of cmdlets 188 New- PWInputOutputPerformanceReport Attend the SIG and workshops SIG is 2 nd Thursday of every month Go to Bentley Communities for help! Bentley Systems, Incorporated

32 Bentley Systems, Incorporated