Thursday, January 15, 2009

Hardware for Standard Edition and Enterprise MS Office Communications Server 2007

Hardware requirements vary according to server role, configuration, and storage requirements. This topic summarizes the requirements for the following server configurations. Server roles not listed in this section are addressed in subsequent sections for the following server configurations.
Standard Edition Server configured as one of the following:
• Front End Server, Web Conferencing Server, and A/V Conferencing Server
• Director
• Web Conferencing Edge Server or Access Edge Server
Enterprise Edition Server configured as one of the following:
• Consolidated Enterprise Edition Server (Front-End Server, Web Conferencing Server, A/V Conferencing Server, and IIS collocated on server)
• Front End Server in expanded configuration (conferencing servers and IIS installed on separate computers)
• Web Conferencing Server in the expanded configuration
• IIS Server in the expanded configuration
• Archiving and CDR Server


CPU
Dual processor, dual core 2.6 GHz +
Disk
2 x 18 GB
For collocated Standard Edition Server, add:
2 x 36 GB, 15K RPM, RAID 0, for database log files
2 x 36 GB, 15K RPM, RAID 0, for database data
Cache
1 MB L2 per core
Memory
2 GB (4 GB for Standard Edition Server or Consolidated Enterprise Edition Server)
Network
GBit NIC

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