Hardware Specifications for FC10
FirstClass 10 Physical Server Guidelines
One of FirstClass 10's biggest features is its instant searching. Comparable to the speed of OSX's Spotlight, the FirstClass 10 server will index all FirstClass items so searching will be almost instant. This will require bigger hardware. If you have purchased a new server in the last two years, you might be all set.
All Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux servers will need at least:
- four 64-bit processor cores,
- a 64-bit Operating System,
- more RAM
FirstClass is still testing the ratios of Network Store size to RAM needed, but initial estimates are in.
If your FirstClass Network Store is less than 75Gigs and less than 250 concurrent users, 8 Gigs of RAM should be fine.
If your FirstClass Network Store is greater than 75 gigs or you have more than 250 concurrent users, contact us. You will need at least 12Gigs of RAM.
Off topic: If your FC Network Store is somewhere above 75Gigs, mirroring will soon no longer be a viable option and you will need to look at an expensive SAN/NAS snapshot-capable device.
*When upgrading to FirstClass 10, if you are running FirstClass Archiving, it will be necessary to upgrade to Archiving Services 10 at the same time, and BOTH of those require a 64-bit Intel OS. We do not yet know how much RAM a FC 10 archiving server will need.
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FirstClass 10 suggested minimum hardware requirements:
Apple OSX
- Apple xServe, or Mac Pro
- One Intel Quad Core2 processor 2Ghz or higher
- 8 Gigs of RAM (<75Gig Network Store)
- Hardware RAID card
- 4 hard drives, split into two RAID 1 (mirrored) disk arrays.
- (RAID5 is also acceptable, but possibly slower)
- OSX 10.5.4 (do not upgrade further if you can help it, but some machines ship with/require a newer OS)
Windows or Linux
- Any vendor
- One Intel Quad Core2 processor 2Ghz or higher
- 8 Gigs of RAM (<75Gig Network Store)
- Hardware RAID card
- 4 hard drives, split into two RAID 1 (mirrored) disk arrays.
- (RAID5 is also acceptable, but possibly slower)
- Windows 2003 Standard 64-bit version, or almost any recent 64-bit Linux distribution
- (Windows 2008 is not yet supported)
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