AFC Server Requirements for Small Operations

Application Server

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

Table 1. Application Server Specifications
Recommended Specification	Optimal Specification
Six (6) Processor Cores, Intel Xeon Processor E5 v3 (Haswell) Family or newer, 1.7 GHz or greater base frequency	Eight (8) Processor Cores, Intel Xeon Processor E5 v3 (Haswell) Family or newer, 2.1 GHz or greater base frequency
8 GB RAM or greater	16 GB RAM or greater
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)
1Gbps Ethernet interface	1Gbps 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, backups. These specifications are intended as a baseline, initial configuration.

Database Server

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

Table 2. Database Server Specifications
Recommended Specification	Optimal Specification
Six (6) Processor Cores, Intel Xeon Processor E5 v3 (Haswell) Family or newer, 1.7 GHz or greater base frequency	Eight (8) Processor Cores, Intel Xeon Processor E5 v3 (Haswell) Family or newer, 2.1 GHz or greater base frequency
16 GB RAM memory	24 GB RAM memory
Three (3) 600 GB 15K SAS hard disk drives, configured in RAID5 array*	Four (4) 600 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	Microsoft Windows Server 2016

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

Reporting Database Server

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

Table 3. Reporting Database Server Specifications
Recommended Specification	Optimal Specification
Six (6) Processor Cores, Intel Xeon Processor E5 v3 (Haswell) Family or newer, 1.7 GHz or greater base frequency	Eight (8) Processor Cores, Intel Xeon Processor E5 v3 (Haswell) Family or newer, 2.1 GHz or greater base frequency
16 GB RAM or greater	24 GB RAM or greater
Three (3) 600 GB 15K SAS hard disk drives, configured in RAID5 array*	Four (4) 600 GB 15K SAS hard disk drives, configured in RAID5 array with hot spare*
SAS disk controller (RAID 0/1/5/10 compliant, 1GB battery backed cache)	SAS disk controller (RAID 0/1/5/10 compliant, 1GB 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, backups. These specifications are intended as a baseline, initial configuration.