Always make sure your Pilot software is up to date.
Use this calculator to estimate certain restrictions for the
server
application.
This calculation is not applicable to any hardware, the results of this calculation are
restrictions within the application for Pilot 2.12 or higher.
Maximum load of hardware can be determined with the specs of hardware itself.
Number of cameras:
Number of frames:
Number of scheduled cameras and analytics
If empty it will be all cameras.
Hours to record
Leave empty if using days
Days to record
Leave empty if using hours
What CPU you have
Intel Xeon ~2Ghz
Intel QuadCore ~2Ghz
Intel DualCore (E series) ~2Ghz
What Operating System you have
Windows 2003 server
Windows 2008 server
Windows XP
Windows Vista-7
What type of Storage
SATA (direct attached DAS)
SAS (direct attached DAS or SAN)
NAS (Network drive or iSCSI)
Compression method
MPEG4
H264
MJPEG
Quality of video
Medium quality
Good quality
Low quality
Image size (width)
4CIF video
VGA Video
2CIF Video
QVGA Video
1 Megapixel
1.3 Megapixel
2 Megapixel
3 Megapixel