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Hardware and firmware

  • A minimum of Dual-Core Dual CPUs (2 Dual-Core CPUs such as Xeon 51xx family, Xeon E53xx family or X53xx family) 2 GHz or higher
  • One database server core for each two application server cores
  • 4 GB for each server
  • Recommended
    : Dual, redundant Intel NICs and power supplies
    If using BroadCOM NICs, be sure that the latest drivers are installed and disable the TCP Chimney feature as per the guidelines in the following Microsoft article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951037.
  • Disk space for storage on a RAID 5, RAID 0+1 or RAID 10 configured disk system.
    The exact allocation of disks depends on the hardware configuration.
Limit SQL RAM usage to 60% of the total system RAM.
The installation procedure requires at least 20 GB free for data.