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Hardware and firmware

The following are the minimum hardware requirements for installing and configuring 
Microsoft Lync Server
 for 
BlackBerry AtHoc
  • 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 per server
  • Dual, redundant Intel NICs and power supplies are recommended
  • 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.