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
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
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 2022 Standard Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Standard

Base Database Server

The following requirements are needed on the base database server for medium operations:
Table 2. Database Server Specifications
Minimum Specifications Recommended Specifications
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
MS SQL Server 2019 / Oracle 19c MS SQL Server 2019 / Oracle 19c
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.