IBM SG24-6320-00 manual Hardware and software prerequisites, Production Environment

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3.2.2 Hardware and software prerequisites

The following sections represent the minimum requirements for hardware and software involved in the installation and configuration of both production and development environments.

Important: After installing all the required software you must install WebSphere Commerce V5.6 Fixpack 1 required for migration. It can be downloaded from the following URL:

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/genservers/commerce/wcpe/support/

Production Environment

Before installing WebSphere Commerce ensure your system meets the following hardware and software prerequisites.

Hardware prerequisites

Intel™ Pentium® III 733 MHz (1 GHz or higher recommended for a production environment) IBM-compatible personal computer. This machine should not be running any other applications other than those required by WebSphere Commerce and the system must have the following:

Memory:

–A minimum of 1 GB of RAM per processor for the first WebSphere Commerce instance with optional WebSphere Commerce Payments instance.

–Each additional WebSphere Commerce instance with optional WebSphere Commerce Payments instance will require an additional 512 MB of RAM per processor.

Disk space:

–A minimum of 2 GB of free disk space on your target installation drive.

–Additional 900 MB temporary disk space in the location defined by the Windows %tmp% environment variable.

–If your machine is formatted with FAT partitioning and the partition is over 1.024 GB, you will need twice as much free disk space. If your machine is formatted with FAT partitioning and the partition is over 2.049 GB, you will need three times as much free disk space.

–The paging file size should be double the size of the RAM. For example, 512 MB RAM should have a 1024 MB paging file.

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