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Hardware Requirements for the Application Manager Virtual Appliance Host
Ensure that the environment for the host, the vSphere instance, to run the Application Manager virtual
appliance meets the minimum hardware requirements.
Table 3-1. Minimum Application Manager Hardware Requirements
Component Minimum Requirement
Processor One Intel Xeon Dual Core, 3.0GHz, 4MB Cache
RAM 6GB DDR2 667 MHz, ECC and registered
On-board LAN One 10/100/1000Base-TX port
Storage 32GB
Resource Requirements and Recommendations for the Application Manager
Virtual Appliance
Ensure that the resources allocated to the Application Manager virtual appliance meet the minimum
requirements.
IMPORTANT In reference to storage, you can use the internal database for the proof-of-concept phase. Do not
use the internal database server in production. For production, install and configure an external database
server.
Table 3-2. Application Manager Resource Requirements and Recommendations
Component Required Recommended
Processor 2 vCPU 4 vCPU for higher performance
Random-
access
memory
4GB 4GB
Storage 32GB External database sizing information: 64GB
for first 100,000 users. Add 20GB for each
additional 100,00 users
Network Configuration Requirements for the Application Manager Virtual
Appliance
For the Application Manager virtual appliance is specific to configuring a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server.
Table 3-3. Network Configuration Requirements
Network Requirements
Access to a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server made available in one of the following ways:
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To allow Application Manager to access an external NTP server, you must ensure that the outbound firewall port 123
(NTP Protocol) is opened from Application Manager to the Internet.
n
If you do not want a firewall port open for the NTP server, you must ensure that the NTP configuration is pointing to
an internal NTP server. You perform this action when you configure the Application Manager using the Application
Manager virtual appliance interface.
Inbound firewall port 443 opened from users outside the enterprise network to Application Manager.
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