Base Server Requirements for Large Operations

This section provides the base server requirements for large operations.

Base File Server

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

Table 1. Base File Server Specifications
Minimum Specifications	Recommended Specifications
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
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 2022 Standard	Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Standard

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 base database server for large operations:

Table 2. Base Database Server Specifications
Minimum Specifications	Recommended Specifications
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
MS SQL Server 2019 / Oracle 19c	MS SQL Server 2019 / Oracle 19c
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Standard / Oracle Enterprise Linux / Red Hat Linux	Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Standard / 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.