Utility Network separate server

[RickeyFight]

I was told by a colleague at UC 2024 that they were told that a Utility Network should have its own stand alone server. Is this the case? I am looking at setting one up.

[MarceloMarques]

Best practice is for the database server for the enterprise geodatabase to be hosted in its own server and the ArcGIS Enterprise (Portal + Server) to be hosted on its own server, separate from the database server.

[RobertKrisher · Accepted solution]

That will depend on your workflows and user requirements. I recommend you familiarize yourself with the ArcGIS Architecture Center. Start by looking at the network management system reference architecture (especially the design decisions and considerations). You can then look at several test studies that were performed using this reference architecture to see how it performs under different scenarios, and use that to make informed decisions about your own design decisions.

[RickeyFight]

@MarceloMarques  We have that set up already. Do we need to do anything special to the database server?

[MarceloMarques]

@RickeyFight - just the normal and regular recommended geodatabase maintenance tasks, e.g. gather new statistics and rebuild indexes often, and of course, always keep good database backups that you can use to restore the database in case of any problems.

[SamDeLore]

You don't need a UN server,

But I would highly recommend you implement one....

If you want to use the UN functionality, you're going to be using feature services with every feature class or table that participates in the UN at a minimum. That can get big depending on your Data Model / Network Domains.

Having a dedicated server that you can crank UN service instances up on is really useful, the SOCs can be slow to start if the services are big, so having dedicated servers & SOCs is important IMHO.