Hey there,
Is horizontal scaling of the db on the radar for 7? I think we are hitting the limits of the db server, and i can’t think of how we could upgrade the hw any more 
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Yes, sharding will be supported in version 7. We’ve also make many improvements to the load placed on a single db server as well. For example, writes have been cut down by about 1/3 by making use of Mongo 2.6’s new server side timestamp feature. We’ve also split up the db into multiple dbs, so that a lock on one db won’t impact data access on another.
Cheers,
Ryan
Would you say its advisable to update to mongo 2.6 already with the current build of deadline? Just to minimize the size of the update later…
It definitely won’t hurt, and we’ve seen no issues running Deadline 6.2 against Mongo 2.6.3 internally. Whatever you do though, DO NOT update to 2.6.0, because there is a bug in it that breaks Deadline. Version 2.6.1 will be the minimum requirement for Deadline 7, but our installers will ship with 2.6.3, so you might as well install that version.
Cheers,
Ryan