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vCenter Operations Server Hardware Requirements
You must install vCenter Operations Manager Server on a 64-bit machine that meets specific hardware
requirements.
Table 2‑2. Hardware Requirements
Hardware
Component One Million Metrics Two Million Metrics Six Million Metrics
CPU 4CPU 8CPU 32CPU
Memory 14GB 28GB 72GB
Disk Storage 1.5TB
FSDB: 1.5TB
Database: 100GB
3TB
FSDB: 2.8TB
Database: 200GB
8.8TB
FSDB: 8.4TB
Database: 400GB
Disk I/O for Analytics
VM
2,000 IOPS 4,000 IOPS 12,000 IOPS
Database Server Requirements for vCenter Operations Manager
vCenter Operations Manager requires an SQL or Oracle database to store data. The database server should
be dedicated to the vCenter Operations Manager database. The database must be configured and available
to the vCenter Operations Manager server host.
vCenter Operations Manager supports the following database servers and versions.
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Oracle 10g Release 2
n
Oracle 11g Release 2
n
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2 or later
n
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
n
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
Microsoft SQL Server is supported only on Windows hosts. Microsoft SQL Server database is supported
only on vCenter Operations Manager installations on Windows hosts.
You cannot use Integrated Windows Authentication while using Microsoft SQL server. The JDBC driver
supports the use of Type 2 integrated authentication on Windows operating systems through the
integratedSecurity connection string property. To use integrated authentication, copy the sqljdbc_auth.dll
file to the %ALIVE_BASE%/common/bin folder.
The computer that hosts the database server must meet minimum hardware requirements.
n
2GB RAM
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Two 32-bit CPUs, P4 2GHz or faster
For systems that collect more than one million metrics, the database server host should have 8GB RAM and
two 64-bit CPUs.
The ping time between the database server host and the vCenter Operations Manager Server host should be
less than one millisecond.
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