These represent the Mifos System Recommendations for our current release: Mifos 1.3 (please see subtopics for recommendations for previous releases)
Mifos System Recommendations v1.3
Recommended software configuration
Software Runtime Environment
- Operating system: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server or Windows 2003 server (for application and database server)
- Java: JDK 6
- Application server: Tomcat 6.018
- Database: MySQL 5.051b (for database server)
- Report Designer: BIRT 2.1.2 (later versions of BIRT will not work with Mifos)
Software Settings
- JVM settings: -Xms512M -Xmx1024M -XX:MaxPermSize=512M
- MySQL Settings: Buffer Pool Size=1024M, Max Connections=300
Connection Pool Settings
It is recommended that connection pooling be enabled. If you have an existing my.hibernate.properties file, modify it by adding the following lines:
hibernate.c3p0.acquire_increment=5
hibernate.c3p0.idle_test_period=30
hibernate.c3p0.max_size=100
hibernate.c3p0.max_statements=0
hibernate.c3p0.min_size=20
hibernate.c3p0.timeout=30
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See the Hibernate manual for more information.
Please view the following table below to see which MFI size classification your organization fits into. This classification can help you in assessing the recommended systems requirements for deploying Mifos. Please note that these are all approximate numbers and your actual statistics won't fully mirror these classifications.
entities
Small mfi
mid-sized mfi
large mfi
- clients
6,000
120,000
1,000,000
- accounts
15,000
270,000
2,580,000
- loan accounts
9,000
150,000
1,250,000
- savings accounts
6,000
120,000
1,330,000
- branches
5
45
200
- centers
240
3,825
28,000
- groups
1,200
14,000
200,000
- loan officers
20
260
1,700
Recommended hardware configuration
For small- to mid-sized MFIs.
Machines
- 1TB RAID 5 SATA disk storage
- 4GB RAM
- 2x dual-proc, dual-core 3.5 Ghz CPUs (Xeon/Core 2 Duo/whatever kind of 32-bit Intel chip is cheapest)
- redundant chassis power supplies
- wake-on-LAN
Infrastructure
- 4 megabits/sec upstream and downstream bandwidth
- uninterruptible power supply
- separate boxes for MySQL and Tomcat servers
- replicated MySQL instances
- dual ethernet cards
- remote management console (so you can remotely power cycle the box and maybe get a serial console)
Examples of configurations currently being used in deployments
Jitegemea
Database and application server (combined)
- IBM ThinkCentre MT-M 8326-76G
- 3.4GHz
- 2GB RAM
- 80GB HDD
- 17'' Screen
- Windows 2003 Server with 10-User License
Grameen Koota
Database server
- Proliant DL380G5
- Dual-core Intel Xeon5060 processor(3.20GHz)
- 4MB(2 x 2)Level cache
- 4GB(4 x1)GB)PC2-5300 Fully Buffered DIMMs(DDR2-667)
- 146 GB scsi HDD
- Dual NC373I Gigabyte Ethernetcard
- Operating system: Windows 2003 server R2 standard edition
- Software
- MySQL 5.0.45
- MySQL Administrator
- MySQL Query Browser
- Escan Antivirus
Application server
- Proliant DL380G5
- Dual-coreIntel Xeon5060 processor(3.20GHz)
- 4MB(2 x 2)Level cache
- 2GB(2 x1)GB)PC2-5300 Fully Buffered DIMMs(DDR2-667)
- 76 GB scsi HDD
- Dual NC373I Gigabyte Ethernetcard
- Operating system: Windows 2003 server R2 standard edition
- Software
- JDK1.5.0_10
- JBOSS 4.0.3SP1
- Escan Antivirus
See Also