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ABBYY FlexiCapture and the Database Server are deployed on a Huawei FusionCube 6000 server with two 10 Gb/s network cards and four XH628 v3 nodes.
Diagram of the Huawei FusionCube 6000 hardware, showing four XH 628 v3 nodes joined at top and bottom by 10 Gb/s network switches, each node containing two 18-core Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 processors with 256 GB DDR4 RAM in the virtual-machine environment and an 800 GB SSD, two 600 GB SAS, and ten 4 TB SATA drives in FusionStorage.
In its top configuration, each node has:
  • 2 × Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 processors, 18 cores (36 threads) each
  • 256 GB DDR4 RAM
  • Hard drive arrays: an 800 GB PCIe SSD card cache, 2 × 600 GB SAS, and 10 × 4 TB SATA disks

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Virtual machines

The nodes host virtual machines for the FlexiCapture components and the other roles needed for testing:
  • 1 virtual machine for the Application Server
  • 1 virtual machine for the Database Server
  • 1 virtual machine for the Processing and Licensing Servers
  • 10 virtual machines for Processing Stations
  • 8 virtual machines for load generators that emulate user input
  • 1 virtual machine for the backend system, where all processing results are exported
The two network cards serve different purposes:
  • One creates a VLAN for communication between all virtual machines inside FusionCube.
  • The other connects each virtual machine to FusionStorage.
FusionStorage combines all the hard drive arrays into two separate stores:
  • One is dedicated to the FlexiCapture FileStorage (500/600 MB/s read/write).
  • The other hosts the hard drives of all virtual machines (900/700 MB/s read/write).
So each virtual machine has two 2 Gb/s NICs: one for the VLAN and one for the FileStorage system. Its virtual CPU cores are, in fact, threads on the Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 processors.
Diagram of the virtual machines hosted on Huawei FusionCube 6000, where Load Generators, Processing Stations, the Application Server, the Backend System, the Processing and Licensing Servers, and the Database Server connect through a switch at 2 Gb/s each and a 10 Gb/s link, with a separate FusionStorage tier holding hard drives for all virtual machines and the FlexiCapture FileStorage.
The table below lists the specifications for each role.
Machine roleRequirement
ABBYY FlexiCapture Servers:
Application Server		1 virtual machine on Huawei FusionCube 6000:
12 virtual CPU cores Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3
24 GB RAM
150 GB hard drive at FusionStorage (900/700 MB/s read/write)
2 Gb/s NIC to connect to VLAN
2 Gb/s NIC to connect to FusionStorage
Windows 2012 R2
ABBYY FlexiCapture Servers:
Processing Server
Licensing Server		1 virtual machine on Huawei FusionCube 6000:
4 logical CPU cores Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3
8 GB RAM
100 GB hard disk at FusionStorage (900/700 MB/s read/write)
2 Gb/s NIC to connect to VLAN
2 Gb/s NIC to connect to FusionStorage
Windows 2012 R2
Database ServerMS SQL Server Developer 2012 SP1 on a virtual machine on Huawei FusionCube 6000:
12 logical CPU cores Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3
24 GB RAM
400 GB hard drive at FusionStorage (900/700 MB/s read/write)
2 Gb/s NIC to connect to VLAN
2 Gb/s NIC to connect to FusionStorage
Windows 2012 R2
FileStorageFusionStorage disk array inside Huawei FusionCube 6000:
5 TB
500 MB/s read speed
600 MB/s write speed
The data acquired using CrystalDiskMark 2.2.
Processing Station10 virtual machines on Huawei FusionCube 6000:
12 logical CPU cores Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3
36 GB RAM
100 GB hard drive at FusionStorage (900/700 MB/s read/write)
2 Gb/s NIC to connect to VLAN
2 Gb/s NIC to connect to FusionStorage
Windows 2012 R2
Typical workload generator8 virtual machines on Huawei FusionCube 6000:
12 logical CPU cores Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3
36 GB RAM
100 GB hard drive at FusionStorage (900/700 MB/s read/write)
2 Gb/s NIC to connect to VLAN
2 Gb/s NIC to connect to FusionStorage
Windows 2012 R2
Backend1 virtual machine on Huawei FusionCube 6000:
4 logical CPU cores Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3
4 GB RAM
1 TB hard drive at FusionStorage (900/700 MB/s read/write)
2 Gb/s NIC to connect to VLAN
2 Gb/s NIC to connect to FusionStorage
Windows 2012 R2