WebMentor LMS™

System Requirements

Your WebMentor LMS campus can be up and running in as little as one day on Avilar's servers using our powerful Application Service Provider (ASP) hosting environment. Customers who prefer to install and run the application on their own in-house servers may also license the application. Avilar supports both deployment models.

To install and run WebMentor LMS in-house, your system must meet the following minimum requirements:

• OS: Windows 2000 Pro or Server (Server recommended), Windows XP Pro, or Windows Server 2003
• Processor: Intel Pentium Processor (1 GHz or faster)
• Disk Space: 100MB free hard disk space
• Memory: 512MB RAM (1GB recommended for SQL Server or Oracle)
• Web Server: A web server that supports NSAPI, ISAPI or WSAPI. The
  product has been tested on Netscape's Enterprise Server 2.0 (or later) and
  Microsoft's Internet Information Server 6.0 (or later).
• DBMS: An ODBC-compliant relational DBMS. The product has been
  tested on Microsoft Access 7.0 (or later), Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 (or
  later), and Oracle 8 (not 8i).
• ColdFusion MX 6.1 (Standard)

Recommended Configurations

Avilar recommends the following server configurations based on the number of simultaneous students that you expect to support.

100 Students

• Windows 2003 Server/IIS6 (WinXP Pro for lightly used systems)
• Built-in Access Database (Access software not required)
• 2.4 GHz P4 CPU
• 512MB RAM
• 80 GB HD 7200 RPM

1000 Students

• Windows 2003 Server/IIS6
• SQL Server 2000
• 2 x 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon Processors, 1 MB Cache
• 2 GB RAM
• 3 x 73 GB 10K RPM SCSI Hard Drive U320 (RAID5 preferable)

10,000 Students

For 10,000 or more students, we recommend a dual-server configuration.

Web Server

• Windows 2003 Server/II6
• 2 x 3.4 GHz Intel Xeon Processors, 1 MB Cache, 800Mhz FSB
• 2 GB RAM
• 2 x 73 GB 10K RPM SCSI Hard Drive U320 (RAID1)
• Gigabit Network

Database Server

• Windows 2003 Server
• SQL Server 2000
• 2 x 3.4 GHz Intel Xeon Processors, 1 MB Cache, 800 Mhz FSB
• 2 GB RAM
• 3 x 73 GB 10K RPM SCSI Hard Drives U320 (RAID5)
• Gigabit Network

Factors for Scalability

As student loads increase, consider the following upgrades in the order indicated.

1. Increase # of Processors
2. Increase RAM
3. Increase disk RPM
4. Add Storage Area Network (SAN)
5. Increase bandwidth

Factors for Reliability

To improve system reliability/availability, consider the following options in the order indicated.

1. Dual Power Supplies
2. RAID 1 for Web Server or RAID 5 for DB/Combined Server
3. External Backup disk or tape drive
4. UPS sized appropriately
5. Database cluster
6. Automated failover