topic Re: Geodatabase server core calculation in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions

Geodatabase server core calculation

DuongHB — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 10:41:20 GMT

Hi,

You know ArcGIS Server license is sold by CPU cores number.

We wonder is there limitation on separate geodatabase server? For example, customer buy 4 cores ArcGIS Server, is it OK if geodatabase server is 8 cores?

Thank you

Re: Geodatabase server core calculation

George_Thompson — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 11:09:16 GMT

As far as I know, there is no relationship between number of ArcGIS Server cores licenses and the Enterprise Geodatabase server cores. So yes, the RDBMS could have 8 or 16 cores to make the geodatabase performant to the needs of your organization.

I always recommend following the RDBMS system requirements / guidance for performance.

Re: Geodatabase server core calculation

JayantaPoddar — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 11:21:27 GMT

As I could understand from Licensing ArcGIS Enterprise Deployments in Virtualized and Cloud Environments (esri.com)

If these components (ArcGIS Enterprise and RDBMS) are installed in separate physical/ virtual machines, then a "4 core" license should be fine.

The Number of cores is for the machine hosting the ArcGIS Enterprise only.

For example,

If an 8-core physical machine is virtualized so that there are equivalent to two (2) 4-core virtual machines, a 4-core ArcGIS Enterprise license could be installed on one of the virtual machines, leaving the other 4-core VM for other uses.

Re: Geodatabase server core calculation

DuongHB — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 11:12:07 GMT

If "the number of cores is for the machine hosting the ArcGIS Enterprise only", can you explain why ArcGIS Server Basic is sold by core also, while it mostly used for enterprise geodatabase?

Re: Geodatabase server core calculation

DuongHB — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 11:11:53 GMT

I think about a situation that a customer already equipped a database server with 8 cores legally (SQL Server or Oracle). Then he got ArcGIS Server license with 4 cores.

And how about if he got ArcGIS Server Basic ?

Re: Geodatabase server core calculation

JayantaPoddar — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 12:21:30 GMT

The basic license of ArcGIS Server is about more than just managing Enterprise Geodatabase.

It has the ability to publish (but not edit) feature services for map visualization and query. You also get the geometry service and the ability to publish geodata services.

Re: Geodatabase server core calculation

George_Thompson — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 13:31:11 GMT

As I understand, the ArcGIS Server license level does not matter to the RDBMS. You would follow best practices of the RDBMS provider.