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Requirements Number of VCM Managed Machines
1–1000 1000–2000 2000+
Processors Dual Xeon or single Dual
Core 2GHz minimum
Quad Xeon or two Dual
Core 2GHz minimum
Eight-way Xeon or four
Dual Core 2GHz minimum
RAM 8GB+ minimum 12GB+ minimum 16GB+ minimum
Number of
Separate Disk
Channels
2 3 4
Table 2–4. Minimum Hardware Requirements by Number of Managed Machines for Single-Tier
Server Installations
The space allocations in the following table do not include space for backups. Allocate backup space that is
equal to the size of the VCM data for a single full backup, or larger to keep multiple partial backups.
Number of VCM Managed
Machines
RAID Channel and RAID Level Partitions Usable
Space
1–500 Channel 0 – RAID 1 OS 36GB
Collector Data
Files
36GB
TempDB 36GB
SQL Log Files 28GB
Channel 1 – RAID 0+1 (recommended) or
RAID 10
SQL Data Files 56GB
501–1000 Channel 0 – RAID 1 OS 36GB
Collector Data
Files
36GB
Channel 1 – RAID 1 TempDB 56GB
SQL Log Files 56GB
Channel 2 – RAID 0+1 (recommended) or
RAID10
SQL Data Files 113GB
1001–2000 Channel 0 – RAID 1 OS 36GB
Collector Data
Files
54GB
Channel 1 – RAID 1 TempDB 113GB
Channel 2 – RAID 1 SQL Log Files 113GB
Channel 3 – RAID 0+1 (recommended) or
RAID 10
SQLData Files 227GB
Table 2–5. Minimum Disk Configuration Requirements by Number of Managed Machines
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