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Minimum server requirements
District with fewer than 500 students
CPU - Intel® Xeon® E3-1230 v6 , 4 Cores (HT) x 3.5 GHz
RAM/Memory - 16 GB DDR4 ECC
Hard Disk - SATA/SCSI 500GB
SSD INTEL 3610/3710+ 800GB
Software Requirement:
Operating System: MS Windows 2012 Standard/Enterprise (Recommended)
SQL Database: MS SQL 2014 Standard/Enterprise (Recommended)
.Net Framework: MS .net Framework 4.5
District with 501 - 3,000 students
CPU - Intel® Xeon® E3-1230 v6 , 4 Cores (HT) x 3.5 GHz
RAM/Memory - 16 GB DDR4 ECC
Hard Disk - SATA/SCSI 1TB+
SSD INTEL 3610/3710+ 800GB
Software Requirement:
Operating System: MS Windows 2012 Standard/Enterprise
(Minimum Recommended)
SQL Database: MS SQL 2014 Standard/Enterprise
(Minimum Recommended)
.Net Framework: MS .net Framework 4.5
District with 3,001 - 15,000 students
Web/File/Reporting Server Hardware Requirement:
CPU - Intel® Xeon® E3-1230 v6 , 4 Cores (HT) x 3.5 GHz
RAM/Memory - 16 GB DDR4 ECC
Hard Disk - SATA/SCSI 1TB+
SQL Server Hardware Requirement:
CPU - Intel® Xeon® E3-1270 v6, 4 Cores (HT) x 3.8 Ghz
RAM/Memory - 32 GB DDR4 ECC
Hard Disk - SATA/SCSI 1TB+
SSD INTEL 3610/3710+ 2* 800GB RAID 1
Software Requirement:
Operating System: MS Windows 2012 Standard/Enterprise
(Minimum Recommended)
SQL Database: MS SQL 2014 Enterprise
(Minimum Recommended)
.Net Framework: MS .net Framework 4.5
District with 15,000+ students
(Recommended Separate Server for Database, Web, File, and Reporting Servers)
Web Server Hardware Requirement:
CPU - Intel® Xeon® E3-1270 v6, 4 Cores (HT) x 3.8 Ghz
RAM/Memory - 32 GB DDR4 ECC
Hard Disk - SATA/SCSI 1TB+
Reporting Server Hardware Requirement:
CPU - Intel® Xeon® E3-1230 v6 , 4 Cores (HT) x 3.5 GHz
RAM/Memory - 16 GB DDR4 ECC
Hard Disk - SATA/SCSI 100GB
File Server Hardware Requirement:
CPU - Intel® Xeon® E3-1230 v6 , 4 Cores (HT) x 3.5 GHz
RAM/Memory - 16 GB DDR4 ECC
Hard Disk - SATA/SCSI 2TB
Database Server Hardware Requirement:
CPU - Intel®Xeon® E5-2650 V3, 10 Cores (HT) x 2.3 GHz (2.6 GHz Turbo Boost)
Intel® Xeon® E5-2667 v4 3.2 GHz 8 Cores( HT) (3.6 Turbo Boost)
RAM/Memory - 128 GB DDR
Hard Disk - SATA/SCSI 1TB+
Software Requirement:
Operating System: MS Windows 2016 Enterprise (Minimum Recommended)
SQL Database: MS SQL 2014 Enterprise (Minimum Recommended)
.Net Framework: MS .net Framework 4.5
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