Obtaining Software: System Requirements

The following charts outline the recommended server specifications based on the number of devices and other assumptions regarding your environment and usage:

FMAudit Recommended Server Specifications
Devices	Up to 1,000 Time Limited Trials	Up to 10,000	Up to 50,000	Up to 100,000		Up to 500,000
Centrals Max Devices/Central	1	1	1	2 75,000		10 100,000
Server	App & SQL	App & SQL	App & SQL	App	SQL	App	SQL
CPU Cores	2	4	8	4	4	8	8
RAM	4 GB	4 GB	8 GB	8 GB	8 GB	16 GB	16 GB
HDD	250 GB	250 GB	500 GB	250 GB	1 TB	250 GB	1 TB
Server OS	2003 x32	2003 x32	2008 x64	2008 x64	2008 x64	2008 x64	2008 x64
SQL	Express 2008 R2	Server Standard 2008 R2	Server Standard 2008 R2	---	Server Standard 2008 R2	---	Server Standard 2008 R2
Other Software	Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 or higher Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 & Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5

Assumptions

1 Historical and 4 Status imports per day

ASM running lightly

ERP syncs twice a day

Light report usage

Two servers configurations are connected by a 1 Gbps connection

All HDD Storage will have sustained write speeds of 100 Mb/s

All HDD Storage will be RAID 1 or better

All SQL dbs will be kept on a partition separate from the OS

Supported SQL Versions
	2005	2008	2008 R2
SQL Express*	Yes	Yes	Yes
SQL Server Standard	Yes	Yes	Yes
SQL Server Web	Yes	Yes	Yes
SQL Server Enterprise	Yes	Yes	Yes
Note: SQL Express has a limit on the database size of 4GB (or 10GB in R2), once this limit is reached Central will stop functioning, it not recommended to use SQL Express in a production environment.