AFC Server Requirements for Large Operations

This section provides AFC server requirements for large operations.

Application Server

The following requirements are needed on the AFC application server for large operations:

Table 1. Application Server Specifications
Recommended Specification	Optimal Specification
Sixteen (16) Processor Cores, Intel Xeon Processor E5 v3 (Haswell) Family or newer, 2.1 GHz or greater base frequency	Sixteen (16) Processor Cores, Intel Xeon Processor E5 v3 (Haswell) Family or newer, 2.1 GHz or greater base frequency
16 GB RAM memory	32 GB RAM memory
Three (3) 300 GB 15K SAS hard disk drives, configured in RAID5 array*	Four (4) 300 GB 15K SAS hard disk drives, configured in RAID5 array with hot spare*
SAS disk controller (RAID 0/1/5/10 compliant, 1 GB battery backed cache)	SAS disk controller (RAID 0/1/5/10 compliant, 1 GB battery backed cache)
Monitor (17” LCD/LED or larger)	Monitor (19” LCD/LED or larger)
1 Gbps Ethernet interface	1 Gbps Ethernet interface
Microsoft Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, 2016	Microsoft Windows Server 2016

Note: *Required storage is dependent on actual sizes of database files, logs, and backups. These specifications are intended as a baseline, initial configuration.

Database Server

The following requirements are needed on the AFC database server for large operations:

Table 2. Database Server Specifications
Recommended Specification	Optimal Specification
Sixteen (16) Processor Cores, Intel Xeon Processor E5 v3 (Haswell) Family or newer, 2.1 GHz or greater base frequency	Twenty (20) Processor Cores, Intel Xeon Processor E5 v3 (Haswell) Family or newer, 2.4 GHz or greater base frequency
32 GB RAM memory	64 GB RAM memory
Four (4) 300 GB 15K SAS hard disk drives, configured in RAID5 array*	Five (5) 300 GB 15K SAS hard disk drives, configured in RAID5 array with hot spare*
SAS disk controller (RAID 0/1/5/10 compliant, 1 GB battery backed cache)	SAS disk controller (RAID 0/1/5/10 compliant, 1 GB battery backed cache)
Monitor (17” LCD/LED or larger)	Monitor (19” LCD/LED or larger)
1 Gbps Ethernet interface	1 Gbps Ethernet interface
MSSQL Server 2014	MSSQL Server 2014
Microsoft Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, 2016 / Oracle Enterprise Linux / Red Hat Linux	Microsoft Windows Server 2016 / Oracle Enterprise Linux / Red Hat Linux

Note: *Required storage is dependent on actual sizes of database files, logs, and backups. These specifications are intended as a baseline, initial configuration.

Reporting Database Server

The following requirements are needed for the AFC reporting database server for large operations:

Table 3. Reporting Database Server Specifications
Recommended Specification	Optimal Specification
Sixteen (16) Processor Cores, Intel Xeon Processor E5 v3 (Haswell) Family or newer, 2.1 GHz or greater base frequency	Twenty (20) Processor Cores, Intel Xeon Processor E5 v3 (Haswell) Family or newer, 2.4 GHz or greater base frequency
32 GB RAM memory	64 GB RAM memory
Four (4) 300 GB 15K SAS hard disk drives, configured in RAID5 array*	Five (5) 300 GB 15K SAS hard disk drives, configured in RAID5 array with hot spare*
SAS disk controller (RAID 0/1/5/10 compliant, 1 GB battery backed cache)	AS disk controller (RAID 0/1/5/10 compliant, 1 GB battery backed cache)
Monitor (17” LCD/LED or larger)	Monitor (19” LCD/LED or larger)
1 Gbps Ethernet interface	1 Gbps Ethernet interface
MSSQL Server 2014	MSSQL Server 2014
Microsoft Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, 2016	Microsoft Windows Server 2016

Note: *Required storage is dependent on actual sizes of database files, logs, and backups. These specifications are intended as a baseline, initial configuration.