Base Server Requirements for Medium Operations

This section provides the base server requirements for medium operations.

Base File Server

The following requirements are needed on the base file server for medium operations:

Table 1. Base File Server Specifications
Recommended Specification Optimal Specification
Two (2) Processor Cores, Intel Xeon Processor E5 v3 (Haswell) Family or newer, 2.1 GHz or greater base frequency Two (2) Processor Cores, Intel Xeon Processor E5 v3 (Haswell) Family or newer, 2.1 GHz or greater base frequency
8 GB RAM memory; <1 TB of disk usage for file shares 16 GB RAM memory; >1 TB of disk usage for file shares
Two (2) 300 GB 15K SAS hard disk drives, configured in RAID1 mirror Three (3) 300 GB 15K SAS hard disk drives, configured in RAID1 mirror 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

Base Database Server

The following requirements are needed on the base database server for medium operations:
Table 2. Database Server Specifications
Recommended Specification Optimal Specification
Eight (8) 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
MSSQL Server 2014, 2016, 2017 / Oracle 12c (12cR2) MSSQL Server 2016, 2017 / Oracle 12c (12cR2)
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.