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Network Topography, Installation and Bandwidth

asked on February 16, 2016

Good Morning, I am trying to determine the best layout for a multi-site client. There is a central high bandwidth hub where the main servers sit. The rest of the sites are spread out and are often have a low bandwidth WAN connection. This client wishes to keep the main Laserfiche server hosted at the main high bandwidth site and have only ONE SQL host. They asked about storing the image volumes separately out at each remote low bandwidth site -which is where my question comes in. 


Would storing image volumes locally at each low bandwidth site speed up performance for scanning and retrieval of images, or would it make performance even worse? Is this an acceptable layout, or against best practices? Thank you!

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replied on February 16, 2016

I'm sure Laserfiche will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the Server service coordinates all the data transfer between SQL, the Image Volumes, and the Clients. In your case, if the legs from the central location to each remote site are slow, then storing each site's data locally will incur twice the bottleneck. The client would request data from the central server, then the server would lookup the images back on the local site server, and then it would have to go back to the server before finally being sent to the client to fulfill the request. You would probably be better off hosting the server service and the image volumes in the same place.

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replied on February 16, 2016

Okay thank you. That was what I was unsure of. I didn't know if the server was actually caching the image files to host to the client, or just giving the client the image volume path - and the image was then retrieved directly from the client.

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