We're planning to evaluate and eventually potentially purchase perfino. I went quickly through the docs and cannot find the system requirements for the installation. Also I cannot find it's compatibility with JBoss 7.1. Can you provide details please?
There are no hard system requirements for disk space, it depends on the amount of business transactions that you're recording. All data will be consolidated, so the database reaches a maximum size after a while, but it's not possible to say what that size will be. Consolidation times can be configured in the general settings.
There are also no hard system requirements for CPU and physical memory. A low-end machine will have no problems monitoring 100 JVMs, but the exact details again depend on the amount of monitored business transactions.
JBoss 7.1 is supported. "Supported" means that web service and EJB calls can be tracked between JVMs, otherwise all application servers work with perfino.