Owners Manual

Installing OpenManage Essentials

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Installation Prerequisites and Minimum Requirements

For a list of supported platforms, operating systems, and browsers, see the Dell OpenManage Essentials

Support Matrix at dell.com/OpenManageManuals.

To install OpenManage Essentials, you require local system administrator privileges and the system you

are using must meet the criteria mentioned in Minimum Recommended Hardware and Minimum

Requirements.

Minimum Recommended Hardware

Minimum

Recommended

Hardware

Large Deployments Medium Deployments

[a]

Small Deployments [a]

Number of Devices Up to 2000 Up to 500 Up to 100

Type of System Physical machines /

Virtual machines

Physical machines /

Virtual machines

Physical machines /

Virtual machines

RAM 8 GB 6 GB 4 GB

Processors 8 cores total 4 cores total 2 cores total

Database SQL Standard SQL Express SQL Express

Database Location Remote [b] Local Local

Hard Drive 10 GB 6 GB 6 GB

[a] If you are not using SQL Express, limit the maximum memory to 2 GB less than the total system

memory and disable SQL analysis and report services.

[b] Install the remote database on a system that supports an 8 core processor and an 8 GB RAM.

NOTE: If Dell SupportAssist is installed along with OpenManage Essentials, you require 2 GB RAM

and 2 cores in addition to the minimum requirements described in the above table. If you are using

SQL Server Standard or Enterprise Editions, the maximum SQL Server memory must be configured

within SQL Server to prevent it from using the entire system memory. It is recommended that you

use a maximum of 4 GB for a 6 GB RAM.