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  3. Section III. Certified configurations
  4. Portal and database servers
  5. Recommended portal configurations

Recommended portal configurations

The following Portal configurations are recommended. Enterprise-specific requirements may warrant additional resources, as you fully deploy features and add IT Analytics licensed products to the Portal.

Table: Portal configuration on a virtual machine

Medium Portal (Virtual Machine)

Medium Portal Criteria

  • Windows 64-bit or Linux 64-bit

  • 4 vCPU cores with a minimum 32 GiB of memory recommended

  • Maximum 2 physical CPU sockets (Oracle license limitation)

  • Minimum of 200 GB of usable disk space (SAN or DAS, not NAS)

  • Capacity < 10 PB and

  • Backup < 10,000 clients

Table: Portal configuration on a physical server

Large Portal (Physical Server)

Large Portal Criteria

  • Linux 64-bit

  • Minimum of 4 Cores (8 Logical CPUs), with 96 GiB of RAM

  • Maximum 2 physical CPU sockets (Oracle license limitation)

  • Minimum of 500 GB of usable disk space (SAN or DAS, not NAS)

  • Capacity > 20 PB or

  • Backup > 20,000 clients

Note:

For File Analytics data collection, contact your technical sales consultant for disk space recommendations.

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