Mifos System Recommendations
These represent the Mifos System Recommendations for our current release. Please see subtopics for recommendations for previous releases.
- 1 Mifos Server System Recommendations (for versions 2.1 and 2.2/2.3/2.4/2.5)
- 2 Mifos Client System Recommendations (for version 2.1 and 2.2/2.3/2.4/2.5)
Mifos Server System Recommendations (for versions 2.1 and 2.2/2.3/2.4/2.5)
Recommended software configuration
Software runtime environment
Operating system: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server or Windows 2003 server (for application and database server)
Java: JDK 6
Application server:
Mifos v2.1:
Mifos v2.2/v2.3:
Database: MySQL 5.1 (for database server)
Software Settings
See the INSTALL file included in the release zip.
Database Connection Settings
See the INSTALL file included in the release zip, and see the Hibernate manual for more details about connection pool settings.
Recommended hardware configuration
For small- to mid-sized MFIs.
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 |
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
uninterrupted power supply
separate boxes for MySQL and web container 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
Al Majmoua
Database and application server (combined)
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 Ethernet card
Operating system: Windows 2003 server R2 standard edition
Software
MySQL Database Server
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
Tomcat
Sun Java
Escan Antivirus
See Also
Mifos Client System Recommendations (for version 2.1 and 2.2/2.3/2.4/2.5)
Recommended software configuration
Linux
Ubuntu 10.x Desktop Edition
Firefox 3.x or higher
Default PDF Reader (from Ubuntu Distribution)
NOTE: Any well known Linux distributions (not older than 2 years) with Firefox 3.x and a PDF Reader should be equivalent to the recommended configuration.
Windows
Windows XP Service Pack 3 / Windows Vista / Windows 7
Firefox 3.x or higher
Internet Explorer 8 or higher
Adobe PDF Reader 8.x or higher
NOTE: Hardware requirements will be higher for "Windows Vista" or "Windows 7".
Recommended hardware configuration
Processing Power: Pentium 1.6 MHz (minimum Pentium 450 GHz, equivalent or more).
RAM: 512 MB (minimum 256 MB or more).
Storage: No special storage requirement except Software installation space. Keep free space (5 GB or more) for normal operations.
Internet connection: 256kbps_ (minimum 56 kbps_ or more), 8 kilo bits per second(kbps) = 1KB/s
NOTES:
Given Hardware Requirements are on the assumption that client system only runs recommended software with default settings.
Mifos Client System -> One Computer Unit
It's possible to use less than recommended hardware requirements, but we can not support performance on those platforms.