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| The following table lists the hardware and software requirements for MicroStrategy Intelligence Server. 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. Refer to the MicroStrategy Installation and Configuration Guide for hardware recommendations and useful sizing information. MicroStrategy Professional Services offers a comprehensive Performance Analysis service to help you quickly and effectively achieve your performance goals, aligning them with your overall Business Intelligence strategy. To learn how MicroStrategy Professional Services can help you assess and prioritize your performance opportunities with a Performance Analysis, see http://www.microstrategy.com/software/business-intelligence/high-performance. Before you review the table below, be aware that a successful configuration of Intelligence Server or Intelligence Server Universal depends on a valid combination of an operating system and a CPU architecture. For example, Intelligence Server is certified to run on a machine with a Windows operating system and an x86 compatible CPU architecture. However, Intelligence Server is not certified or supported to run on a machine with a Windows operating system and an Intel Itanium CPU architecture. Valid operating system and CPU architecture combinations for Intelligence Server and Intelligence Server Universal are listed in the table below:
Intelligence Server on Windows (32-bit)
Since 32-bit systems are beginning to enter the end of their product support lifecycle, MicroStrategy recommends moving to 64-bit systems to support the following scenarios: Applications with many large and frequently used reports. Applications with hundreds of highly active users. Multiple, highly active applications supported on one Intelligence Server.
Hardware | Requirement
CPU Architecture | x86 compatible
RAM | 4 GB
Available hard drive space | Three times the amount of RAM available to Intelligence Server. For example, an Intelligence Server that is provided 4 GB of RAM requires 12 GB of hard drive space.
Operating System | Requirement
Windows | For a list of Windows operating systems that are certified or supported for Intelligence Server, see Operating Systems in the Certified and Supported Configurations page. Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 or 4.5. This must be installed prior to installing MicroStrategy on Windows environments.
Intelligence Server Universal on Windows (64-bit)
Hardware | Requirement
CPU Architecture | x64 compatible
RAM | 4 GB or higher. The use of 4 GB of RAM is a minimum level of support for the MicroStrategy Product Suite, which does not take into account the performance of a production system. Performance testing has shown that 64 GB or more of RAM should be available to allow MicroStrategy Intelligence Server Universal to fully support and take advantage of the complete feature set of the MicroStrategy Product Suite, while obtaining system-wide high performance. This level of system resources allows MicroStrategy Intelligence Server Universal to fully utilize performance-improving technologies such as MicroStrategy OLAP Services, and to support optimal performance for MicroStrategy Report Services documents and dashboards and the other features of the MicroStrategy Product Suite.
Available hard drive space | Three times the amount of RAM available to Intelligence Server. For example, an Intelligence Server that is provided 4 GB of RAM requires 12 GB of hard drive space.
Operating System | Requirement
Windows | For a list of Windows operating systems that are certified or supported for Intelligence Server, see Operating Systems in the Certified and Supported Configurations page. Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 or 4.5. This must be installed prior to installing MicroStrategy on Windows environments.
Intelligence Server Universal on Oracle Solaris (64-bit)
Hardware | Requirement
CPU Architecture | SPARC platforms
RAM | 4 GB or higher. The use of 4 GB of RAM is a minimum level of support for the MicroStrategy Product Suite, which does not take into account the performance of a production system. Performance testing has shown that 64 GB or more of RAM should be available to allow MicroStrategy Intelligence Server Universal to fully support and take advantage of the complete feature set of the MicroStrategy Product Suite, while obtaining system-wide high performance. This level of system resources allows MicroStrategy Intelligence Server Universal to fully utilize performance-improving technologies such as MicroStrategy OLAP Services, and to support optimal performance for MicroStrategy Report Services documents and dashboards and the other features of the MicroStrategy Product Suite.
Available hard drive space | Three times the amount of RAM available to Intelligence Server. For example, an Intelligence Server that is provided 4 GB of RAM requires 12 GB of hard drive space.
Operating System | Requirement
Oracle Solaris | For a list of Oracle Solaris operating systems that are certified or supported for Intelligence Server Universal, see Operating Systems in the Certified and Supported Configurations page. For support notes for Intelligence Server Universal, see Notes on support for MicroStrategy Intelligence Server Universal.
Intelligence Server Universal on IBM AIX (64-bit)
Hardware | Requirement
CPU Architecture | IBM POWER Architecture
RAM | 4 GB or higher. The use of 4 GB of RAM is a minimum level of support for the MicroStrategy Product Suite, which does not take into account the performance of a production system. Performance testing has shown that 64 GB or more of RAM should be available to allow MicroStrategy Intelligence Server Universal to fully support and take advantage of the complete feature set of the MicroStrategy Product Suite, while obtaining system-wide high performance. This level of system resources allows MicroStrategy Intelligence Server Universal to fully utilize performance-improving technologies such as MicroStrategy OLAP Services, and to support optimal performance for MicroStrategy Report Services documents and dashboards and the other features of the MicroStrategy Product Suite.
Available hard drive space | Three times the amount of RAM available to Intelligence Server. For example, an Intelligence Server that is provided 4 GB of RAM requires 12 GB of hard drive space.
Operating System | Requirement
IBM AIX | For a list of IBM AIX operating systems that are certified or supported for Intelligence Server Universal, see Operating Systems in the Certified and Supported Configurations page. For support notes for Intelligence Server Universal, see Notes on support for MicroStrategy Intelligence Server Universal.
Intelligence Server Universal on Linux (64-bit)
Hardware | Requirement
CPU Architecture | x86-64 compatible
RAM | 4 GB or higher. The use of 4 GB of RAM is a minimum level of support for the MicroStrategy Product Suite, which does not take into account the performance of a production system. Performance testing has shown that 64 GB or more of RAM should be available to allow MicroStrategy Intelligence Server Universal to fully support and take advantage of the complete feature set of the MicroStrategy Product Suite, while obtaining system-wide high performance. This level of system resources allows MicroStrategy Intelligence Server Universal to fully utilize performance-improving technologies such as MicroStrategy OLAP Services, and to support optimal performance for MicroStrategy Report Services documents and dashboards and the other features of the MicroStrategy Product Suite.
Available hard drive space | Three times the amount of RAM available to Intelligence Server. For example, an Intelligence Server that is provided 4 GB of RAM requires 12 GB of hard drive space.
Operating System | Requirement
Linux | For a list of Linux operating systems that are certified or supported for Intelligence Server Universal, see Operating Systems in the Certified and Supported Configurations page. For support notes for Intelligence Server Universal, see Notes on support for MicroStrategy Intelligence Server Universal.
Intelligence Server Universal on HP-UX (64-bit)
Hardware | Requirement
CPU Architecture | Intel Itanium
RAM | 4 GB or higher. The use of 4 GB of RAM is a minimum level of support for the MicroStrategy Product Suite, which does not take into account the performance of a production system. Performance testing has shown that 64 GB or more of RAM should be available to allow MicroStrategy Intelligence Server Universal to fully support and take advantage of the complete feature set of the MicroStrategy Product Suite, while obtaining system-wide high performance. This level of system resources allows MicroStrategy Intelligence Server Universal to fully utilize performance-improving technologies such as MicroStrategy OLAP Services, and to support optimal performance for MicroStrategy Report Services documents and dashboards and the other features of the MicroStrategy Product Suite.
Available hard drive space | Three times the amount of RAM available to Intelligence Server. For example, an Intelligence Server that is provided 4 GB of RAM requires 12 GB of hard drive space.
Operating System | Requirement
HP-UX | For a list of HP-UX operating systems that are certified or supported for Intelligence Server Universal, see Operating Systems in the Certified and Supported Configurations page. For support notes for Intelligence Server Universal, see Notes on support for MicroStrategy Intelligence Server Universal.
Notes on support for MicroStrategy Intelligence Server Universal X-windows enabled environment is required for the following functionality: GUI-based MicroStrategy Installation Wizard MicroStrategy Diagnostics and Performance Logging tool MicroStrategy Service Manager A Web browser is required for viewing Readmes, release notes, and online help. Samba (http://www.samba.org) or Windows Services For Unix (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/downloads/default.asp) are required for HTML documents support. Samba 3.0 is required to support HTML documents with alphanumeric names. Compatibility and interoperability For the complete MicroStrategy Platform Compatibility and Interoperability specification, see the MicroStrategy General Information-Readme.
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