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System Requirements

Temporary space requirements vary from system to system. We recommend that at least 512 MB is available for the CA SDM installation purposes and 256 MB is available for the CA MDB installation. If the temporary space is less than the recommended minimum value, you can use the IATEMPDIR variable to redirect the temporary space of the installer to another folder.

(Advanced availability configuration) The following requirements must be met or exceeded for a CA SDM server to install and run properly:

Server Type

CPU Requirements

RAM Requirements

Disk Space Requirements

Standby or Background server

Note: All standby servers and background server must have the similar hardware and software requirements.

Minimum Dual Processor 2 GHz

Preferred Quad Core Processor 2 GHz

Minimum 4 GB

Recommended 8 GB

4 GB

Note: The mentioned minimum disk space is for product installation and for minimal application log growth.

Application server

Note: The minimum recommended configuration for each of the application servers that the administration deploys must be the same.

Minimum Dual Processor 2 GHz

Preferred Quad Core Processor 2 GHz

Minimum 4 GB

Recommended 8 GB

Note: The RAM size can be increased based upon the number of domsrvr or webengine pairs

4 GB

Remote MDB

Minimum Dual Processor 2 GHz

Preferred Quad Core Processor 2 GHz

Minimum 4 GB

Recommended 8 GB

20 GB

Note: The recommended minimum disk space is 20GB, but, you should also allow for incremental growth to accommodate both new MDB table entries and to provide enough space for additional Service Desk-related documents.

Attachments

Note: It is not recommended to have the attachment repository location as part of the standby or background or application server to avoid any link breakup during failover. It is recommended to keep it on an independent file server, preferably on a shared storage location, For advanced availability configuration, you may use SAN with RAID 5 configured. Best performance is achieved by using multiple repositories on multiple application servers.

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Based on your organization requirements.

(Conventional configuration) The following requirements must be met or exceeded for a CA SDM server to install and run properly:

Server Type

CPU Requirements

RAM Requirements

Disk Space Requirements

Primary server

Minimum Dual Processor 2 GHz

Minimum 4 GB

Recommended 6 GB

Note: The RAM size can be increased based upon the number of domsrvr or webengine pairs.

4 GB

Secondary server

Minimum Dual Processor 2 GHz

Minimum 4 GB

Recommended 6 GB

Note: The RAM size can be increased based upon the number of domsrvr or webengine pairs.

4 GB

Remote MDB

Minimum Dual Processor 2 GHz

Recommended: Quad Core Processor 2 GHz

Minimum 4 GB

Recommended 8 GB

20 GB

Note: The recommended minimum disk space is 20GB, but, you should also allow for incremental growth to accommodate both new MDB table entries and to provide enough space for additional Service Desk-related documents.

Note: Use only one DOM server or Web engine pair for each CPU and allocate 1GB RAM per pair.

The following requirements must be met or exceeded for a CA SDM Web Client computer to access CA SDM with better performance:

Hardware

Requirements

CPU

Dual Processor 2.0 GHz preferred

RAM

Minimum 2 GB available free memory

Disk Space

4 GB

Based on the size of your CA SDM environment, the following requirements must be met or exceeded for the product install and run properly:

Database Size

Hardware

Requirements

Small—Used for installing CA SDM in a test environment.

CPU

Minimum Dual Processor 2.0 GHz

 

RAM

Minimum 2 GB

 

Disk Space

4 GB minimum. This will increase over time to accommodate database growth

Medium—The CA SDM default. The recommended setting for most CA SDM installations.

CPU

Dual Processor 2.0 GHz

 

RAM

Minimum 4 GB

Recommended 6 GB

 

Disk Space

4 GB minimum. This will increase over time to accommodate database growth

Large—Used for large CA SDM installations.

CPU

Quad Processor 2.0 GHz

 

RAM

Minimum 4 GB

Recommended 8 GB

 

Disk Space

4 GB minimum. This will increase over time to accommodate database growth

Note: The data files directory of the database server for the MDB requires at least 2 GB of space.