CDT system requirements

The RAM requirements of the Configuration Deployment Tool depend on the size of your database and the distribution of your configuration data.

Time estimates

The time required for the Configuration Deployment Tool to perform comparison and deployment tasks varies according to your system resources and the size and distribution of your configuration data. For example, processing time may increase when there are many records in a table that are referenced by foreign key constraints from other tables, or when there are many records in a table that serves as a driver entity.

It is recommended that you migrate no more than 200,000 records per deployment.

During tests of the Configuration Deployment Tool, Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation measures the amount of time it takes to perform tasks on a Pentium class machine with 512 MB of RAM and running at 550 MHz. The Configuration Deployment Tool performed as described in Table 1.

Table 1. Time estimates using the configuration deployment tool
Task Description of Databases Time
Comparison Source database - 110,000 records

Target database - 110,000 records

7 minutes
Comparison Source database - 110,000 records

Target database - empty

4 minutes
Deployment 110,000 differences 11 minutes
Note: Tests of the Configuration Deployment Tool on a 64-bit machine with 3 GB of RAM and running at 2 GHz demonstrate that the CDT can compare and deploy a maximum of 750,000 records per enrollment.

Installation

The Configuration Deployment Tool is installed automatically during the installation of Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation.

Environment state

The Configuration Deployment Tool assumes that your source and target environments match exactly in the following respects:

Notes: