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| System Requirements and Compatibility for MicroStrategy Command Manager |  |
Hardware
The following information is intended to give you general guidance on hardware requirements to support the MicroStrategy product suite. Determining the necessary hardware requirements to support MicroStrategy is dependent on many factors including but not limited to the complexity of your MicroStrategy environment, the deployment strategy of MicroStrategy features, user community requirements, expected peak usage requirements, and response time expectations. Factors such as these must be considered to determine the hardware requirements for your MicroStrategy production environment.
| Requirement | RAM | Disk Space | Processors |
| Command Manager on Windows | 2 GB | 0.25 GB For space requirements for the MicroStrategy Common Files, see Common Files size requirements on Windows environments. |
x86 or x64 compatible |
| Command Manager on UNIX | 2 GB | 4 GB on IBM AIX 3 GB on other UNIX operating systems |
Oracle Solaris: SPARC platforms |
| IBM AIX: IBM POWER Architecture | |||
| HP-UX: Intel Itanium | |||
| Red Hat and SUSE Linux: x86-64 compatible |
For a detailed list of system requirements and recommendations, see the Planning Your Installation chapter of the Installation and Configuration Guide.
Software
See Certified and Supported Configurations for details about each of the following requirements and other certified and supported operating systems and applications.
| Software | Requirements |
| Operating system |
For a list of operating systems that are certified or supported for Command Manager, see Operating Systems in the Certified and Supported Configurations page. |
| Web browser |
A web browser is required to view the Help documentation provided for the Command Manager interface. For a list of web browsers that are certified or supported for Command Manager Help documentation, see Web Browsers in the Certified and Supported Configurations page. |
| Microsoft .NET Framework | Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 or 4.5. This must be installed prior to installing MicroStrategy on Windows environments. |
| Export application | Microsoft Excel For a list of export applications that are certified or supported for Command Manager, see Export Applications in the Certified and Supported Configurations page. |
Database connectivity |
Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) and ODBC drivers for the metadata and warehouse platforms to be used. For certified metadata and warehouse ODBC drivers and database platforms, refer to the General Information Readme - Certified and Supported Configurations. |
MicroStrategy environment
A project source is required to run MicroStrategy Command Manager and connect to a metadata repository. MicroStrategy Developer and MicroStrategy Command Manager can be installed on the same machine, or on different machines.
See the Compatibility and Interoperability section below for additional requirements.
Compatibility and interoperability
Administrators will no longer need to install Narrowcast Server on the machine where Command Manager is installed to be able to manage a Narrowcast system. Refer to Tech Note TN6600-800-0248 for details.
For the complete MicroStrategy platform compatibility and interoperability specification, see the Compatibility and Interoperability page of the General Information Readme.
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