- Getting Started
- Requirements
- Hardware Requirements
- Software Requirements
- Best Practices
- Installation
- Updating
- Identity Server
- High Availability Add-on
- Troubleshooting startup errors
Orchestrator Installation Guide
Hardware Requirements
There are multiple enterprise cloud deployment options available to host your Orchestrator, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Depending on your deployment option of choice and the size of the environment you plan to build, you need to consult different hardware requirements.
This chapter provides insight into the hardware requirements specific to some of these scenarios.
The hardware requirements differ from your development environment to the production environment. While the same hardware requirements as your production environment could be utilized for testing and development purposes, that implies higher and unnecessary costs, especially in large-scale deployments.
These requirements assume a maximum of 100 Unattended robots running simultaneously. Two machines can be used, one for Orchestrator and (optionally) Elasticsearch, and one for SQL Server, configured as follows:
Web Application Server
|
CPU Cores (>2GHz) |
RAM (GB) |
HDD (GB) |
|---|---|---|
|
4 |
4 |
150 |
SQL Server
|
CPU Cores (>2GHz) |
RAM (GB) |
HDD (GB) |
|---|---|---|
|
4 |
8 |
300 |
For production environments, it is highly recommended to provide one dedicated server for each role:
- Orchestrator web application.
- SQL Server Database Engine.
- Elasticsearch and Kibana.
For a Multi-Node Installation, in addition to the above, the following is also required:
- High Availability add-on (HAA) for
Orchestrator (3+ HAA nodes are required for true high availability and 6+ HAA nodes
for geo-redundancy.
Note:
Multi-node Orchestrator deployments use the RESP (REdis Serialization Protocol) for communication, and thus can be configured using any solution relying on this protocol.
HAA is the only such solution supported by UiPath.
The hardware configuration for each required server depends upon the size of your deployment, as detailed below. The hardware requirements presented here were made based on tests where a Robot was defined as follows:
- messages are sent from the Robot to Orchestrator with a frequency of 1 message per second
- within 60 seconds, the Robot sends:
- 15 message logs
- 2 heartbeats
- 6 get asset requests
- 6 add queue item requests
- 6 get queue item requests
Support up to 250 Unattended Robots
Web Application Server
|
Number of Robots |
CPU Cores (min 2 GHz) |
RAM (GB) |
HDD (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
<20 |
4 |
4 |
100 |
|
<50 |
4 |
4 |
100 |
|
<100 |
4 |
4 |
150 |
|
<200 |
4 |
4 |
200 |
|
<250 |
4 |
4 |
200 |
UiPath.Orchestrator.dll.config file. To do this, add the Max Pool Size=500 parameter to the connection string, so that it looks similar to this example:
<add name="Default" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" connectionString="Server=SQL4142;Integrated Security=True;Database=UiPath;Max
Pool Size=500;" />
SQL Server
|
Number of Robots |
CPU Cores (min 2 GHz) |
RAM (GB) |
HDD (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
<20 |
4 |
8 |
100 |
|
<50 |
4 |
8 |
200 |
|
<100 |
4 |
8 |
300 |
|
<200 |
8 |
8 |
SSD 400 |
|
<250 |
8 |
16 |
SSD 400 |
Disc space requirements highly depend on:
- Whether work queues are used or not. If work queues are used, it depends on average number of transactions added daily/weekly and size (number of fields, size of each field) of each transaction.
- The retention period for successfully processed queue items (the customer should implement their own retention policy).
- Whether messages logged by the Robots are stored or not in the database. If they are stored, a filter can be applied to only store in the DB specific levels of messages (for example, store in the DB the messages with log level Error and Critical, and store in Elasticsearch messages with log level Info,Warn and Trace).
- Frequency of logging messages - the Robot developer uses the Log Message activity at will, whenever they consider a message is worth to be logged.
- The retention period for old logged messages (the customer should implement their own retention policy).
- Logging level value set up in the Robot. For example, if logging level in the robot is set to Info, only messages with levels Info,Warn,Error and Critical are sent to Orchestrator; messages with levels Debug,Trace and Verbose are ignored, they will not reach Orchestrator.
Elasticsearch Server
|
Number of Robots |
CPU Cores (min 2 GHz) |
RAM (GB) |
HDD (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
<20 |
4 |
4 |
100 |
|
<50 |
4 |
4 |
100 |
|
<100 |
4 |
8 |
150 |
|
<200 |
4 |
12 |
200 |
|
<250 |
4 |
12 |
300 |
Disc space requirements depend on:
- The retention period (the customer should implement their own retention policy).
- Frequency of logging messages - the Robot developer uses the Log Message activity at will, whenever they consider a message is worth to be logged.
- Logging level value set up in the Robot. For
example, if logging level in the Robot is set to Info, only messages with
levels Info,Warn, “Error” and “Critical” are sent to Orchestrator;
messages with levels “Debug”, “Trace” and “Verbose” are ignored, they will not
reach Orchestrator.
Note: For more than 50 Robots you need to instruct the Java Virtual Machine used by Elasticsearch to use 50% of the available RAM, by setting both the
-Xmsand-Xmxarguments to half of the total amount of memory. This is done either through theES_JAVA_OPTSenvironment variable or by editing thejvm.optionsfile.
Support Between 250 and 500 Unattended Robots
Web Application Server
|
Number of Robots |
CPU Cores (min 2 GHz) |
RAM (GB) |
HDD (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
<300 |
8 |
8 |
200 |
|
<400 |
8 |
8 |
220 |
|
<500 |
16 |
16 |
250 |
SQL Server
|
Number of Robots |
CPU Cores (min 2 GHz) |
RAM (GB) |
HDD (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
<300 |
16 |
32 |
SSD 400 |
|
<400 |
16 |
32 |
SSD 500 |
|
<500 |
16 |
32 |
SSD 600 |
For more than 300 Robots, please consider not storing all logged messages in the SQL Server database. Store in the DB only the messages with log level Error and Critical. Store all messages (including Error and Critical) in Elasticsearch.
Elasticsearch Server
|
Number of Robots |
CPU Cores (min 2 GHz) |
RAM (GB) |
HDD (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
<300 |
4 |
12 |
300 |
|
<400 |
4 |
16 |
500 |
|
<500 |
4 |
16 |
600 |
The following section is an example of a large, scalable deployment using the Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings. This configuration was used:
- VM Availability Set for Orchestrator
- VM Availability Set for Elasticsearch
- Windows Server SQL VM
- Azure Load Balancer
- High Availability add-on (HAA)
- Distributed DNS Service (such as Cloudflare)
Architecture
The architecture examples below contain optional and/or differing components (e.g. CyberArk, UiPath High Availability Add-on).
The Jumpbox depicted is not required but is a recommended best practice for your production environments, providing isolation and security.
Single-Node Architecture
Multi-Node Architecture
Hardware Requirements
This section describes the hardware configurations used for the performance testing listed in Scaling Your Deployment, below.
Orchestrator Nodes
Each Orchestrator node must be configured as follows:
|
VCPUs |
RAM (GB) |
SSD (GB) |
|---|---|---|
|
16 |
32 |
128 |
SQL Server
The SQL Server virtual machine specifications must scale in line with the number of Orchestrator nodes:
|
Orchestrator Nodes |
VCPUs |
RAM (GB) |
Disk |
|---|---|---|---|
|
1 - 2 |
8 |
16 |
1TB - ultra SSD disk for database, tempDB, and transactional log |
|
5 |
16 |
32 |
1TB - ultra SSD disk for database 1TB - ultra SSD disk for tempDB 1TB - ultra SSD disk for transactional log |
|
10 |
32 |
64 |
1TB - ultra SSD disk for database 1TB - ultra SSD disk for tempDB 1TB - ultra SSD disk for transactional log |
|
15 |
40 |
96 |
1TB - ultra SSD disk for database 1TB - ultra SSD disk for tempDB 1TB - ultra SSD disk for transactional log |
Elasticsearch Availability Set
The Elasticsearch availability set is comprised of 3 master nodes and 6 data nodes, for a total of 9 nodes, each with the following specifications:
|
VCPUs |
RAM (GB) |
OS SSD (GB) |
Data SSD (TB) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
8 |
16 |
128 (with 5000 IOPS and 100 MB/s Throughput) |
1 (with 5000 IOPS and 200 MB/s Throughput) |
Software Requirements
The versions listed above are those used for the deployments and performance tested loads described.
Load Balancing
For multi-node deployments, it is recommended to use two Azure Standard load balancers:
- One for the Orchestrator servers;
- One for the Elasticsearch servers.
High Availability Add-on
-
High Availability add-on (HAA) for Orchestrator (3+ HAA nodes are required for true high availability and 6+ HAA nodes for geo-redundancy.
Important:Multi-node Orchestrator deployments use the RESP (Redis Serialization Protocol) for communication, and thus can be configured using any solution implementing this protocol.
High availability deployments of Orchestrator are supported by UiPath only if the UiPath High Availability Add-on is used.
Scaling Your Deployment
The number of nodes needed in your Orchestrator scale set depends on the number of Robots being deployed:
|
Orchestrator Scale Set Nodes |
No. of Robots |
|---|---|
|
1 |
up to 6,000 |
|
2 |
up to 14,000 |
|
5 |
up to 80,000 |
|
10 |
up to 200,000 |
|
15 |
up to 300,000 |
These deployments were tested using the hardware and software configurations above to exhibit no performance loss under the specified load below.
Performance Testing
The data displayed in the following 2 tables is representative of an attended deployment.
Static Data
Static Data refers to the initial Orchestrator load.
|
Entity |
One Node |
Two Nodes |
Five Nodes |
Ten Nodes |
Fifteen Nodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Tenants |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
Folders |
1 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
6 |
|
Robots |
6,000 |
14,000 |
80,000 |
200,000 |
300,000 |
|
Packages |
8,000 |
16,000 |
48,000 |
48,000 |
48,000 |
|
Processes |
4,000 |
8,000 |
24,000 |
24,000 |
24,000 |
|
Queues |
600 |
1,200 |
1,800 |
2,400 |
3,000 |
|
Queue Items |
1,120,000 |
1,500,000 |
3,000,000 |
5,000,000 |
7,000,000 |
|
Assets |
500 |
1,000 |
1,500 |
3,000 |
4,500 |
Dynamic Data
Dynamic data refers to the data added to or changed in Orchestrator as processes are executed.
|
Entity |
One Node |
Two Nodes |
Five Nodes |
Ten Nodes |
Fifteen Nodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Queue Items (per day) |
300,000 |
600,000 |
4,000,000 |
9,000,000 |
10,500,000 |
|
Jobs (per minute) |
700 |
1,500 |
3,000 |
6,000 |
7,500 |
|
Logs (per minute) |
20,000 |
50,000 |
300,000 |
600,000 |
800,000 |
|
Nuget Downloads (Maximum per minute) |
1,000 |
3,000 |
10,000 |
14,000 |
18,000 |
|
Robots Connected (Maximum) |
6,000 |
14,000 |
80,000 |
200,000 |
300,000 |
|
Heartbeat (per minute) |
12,000 |
28,000 |
160,000 |
400,000 |
600,000 |
|
Busy Robots |
3,000 |
7,000 |
40,000 |
100,000 |
150,000 |
|
Available Robots |
3,000 |
7,000 |
40,000 |
100,000 |
150,000 |
The following sections offer an insight into the capabilities of a PaaS deployment in terms of performance.
Architecture
The following prerequisites are needed:
-
Orchestrator:
- Orchestrator App Service Plan: 20 P3V2 instances
- Azure SQL Server: Premium P15: 4000 DTUs
- Azure Redis cache P2 Premium 13GB
-
Identity Server:
- Identity Server App Service Plan: 2 instances P3V2
- Azure SQL Server: Standard S7: 800 DTU
-
Elasticsearch:
Performance Testing
The data displayed in the following tables is representative of an attended deployment.
Static Data
Static Data refers to the initial Orchestrator load.
|
Entity |
One Node |
|---|---|
|
Tenants |
1 |
|
Folders |
8,000 |
|
Robots |
80,000 |
|
Packages |
8,000 |
|
Processes |
8,000 |
|
Queues |
8,000 |
|
Queue Items |
2,000,000 |
|
Assets |
8,000 |
Dynamic Data
Dynamic data refers to the data added to or changed in Orchestrator as processes are executed.
|
Entity |
One Node |
|---|---|
|
Queue Items (per day) |
5,000,000 |
|
Jobs (per minute) |
2,600 |
|
Logs (per minute) |
240,000 |
|
Nuget Downloads (Maximum per minute) |
2,000 |
|
Robots Connected (Maximum) |
80,000 |
|
Heartbeat (per minute) |
160,000 |
|
Busy Robots |
40,000 |
|
Available Robots |
40,000 |
|
Port |
Description |
|---|---|
|
443 | Default port for communication between Users and Orchestrator with the connected Robots. |
|
1433 | Default port for communication between Orchestrator and the SQL Server machine. |
|
9200 | Communication between Orchestrator and Elasticsearch. |
|
9300 | Communication between Elasticsearch nodes, if applicable. |
|
5601 | Default port used by the Kibana plugin, if applicable. |
|
3389 | Required for RDP automation, needed for High-Density Robots. |
