Server Hardware Requirements

Overview

This document provides a step-by-step guide for using the Resource Calculator to estimate the required server hardware for a country’s MOSIP deployment. The calculator delivers a high-level overview of the hardware components needed to support MOSIP services across Registration and Authentication.

Note: Pre-Registration is not included in this version and will be enabled in an upcoming release.

MOSIP Deployment Components

A typical MOSIP deployment includes the following components:

• ID Lifecycle Management (Issuance, Verification and Management modules/components)

• Pre-Registration

• Registration

• ID Authentication

The Resource Calculator focuses on estimating hardware capacity from the Registration through to Authentication.

Out of Scope

The following areas are not covered by this version of the calculator:

• KYC with OTP Verification in the Authentication flow

• Pre-Registration processes and related hardware requirements

• Registration Packet processing once packet is uploaded

These will be considered in future enhancements of the calculator.

Key Assumptions

To generate accurate estimates, the calculator is based on the following assumptions:

Weightage Calculation

• Weightage represents the percentage distribution of how often specific scenarios occur in real time.

  • Examples:

    • 40% of authentication requests use OTP.

    • 90% of registration requests are for new packet uploads.

    • 5% of sync requests once registration packet is created and ready to be uploaded

• These weightage play a critical role in performance estimation and calculator outputs.

Note: Users are advised to define the weightage based on their specific requirements, re-run the performance tests, and then use the calculator to derive accurate resource estimates.

Performance Metrics

Performance testing is measured using the following metrics:

• Sync Data: Number of packet uploads per day (Assumes packet uploads occur in the last hour of the day).

• IDA: Transactions per second (TPS) or authentications per hour.

Scenario Scope

• Only positive scenarios are considered.

• Negative scenarios requiring human involvement (e.g., Manual Adjudication) are excluded.

External System Response Time

• Systems such as ABIS are assumed to have a maximum response time of 300 ms.

Calculation Flexibility

• The calculator can scale per-hour processing to:

  • Full-day operations

  • Limited working hours

  • Custom durations

Load Multiplication Testing

• Packet processing can be evaluated at 2 times and 3 times load to validate hardware scaling behaviour.

Important Considerations

• Default values in the calculator are derived from insights gathered during MOSIP deployments in multiple countries. Users may modify these values to match their actual or expected usage.

• The calculations provide approximate estimates based on internal testing. Actual performance may vary depending on:

  • Workload characteristics

  • Infrastructure capacity

  • Hardware performance

  • Data complexity

Accessing the Calculator

Refer to the link below to download and access the Resource Calculator.

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resource-calculator-platform-release-1.3.0.xlsx

Open

The calculator provides two primary outputs:

1. Total Resources Required

2. Total Time Required to Complete Registrations

Calculator Structure

Upon opening the calculator, users will find the following three sheets as shown in the below screen:

• Summary: Primary input sheet where users provide parameters and view the overall resource requirement.

• Registration Upload & SyncData: Displays resource requirements and calculations for packet upload and synchronization processes.

• ID Authentication: Contains resource requirement details and calculations for handling authentication requests.

User Input

Users can update values in the Key Inputs section as highlighted in the below screen, based on their deployment needs. All resource estimates will automatically adjust according to the data entered.