Hardware requirements

The Oracle Endeca Server has the following hardware requirements.

Note: In this guide, the term "x64" refers to any processor compatible with the AMD64/EM64T architecture. You might need to upgrade your hardware, depending on the data you are processing. All run-time code must fit entirely in RAM. Likewise, hard disk capacity must be sufficient based on the size of your data set. Please contact your Oracle representative if you need more information on sizing your hardware.

Windows and Linux on x64

Minimum hardware requirements:
  • x64 processor, minimum 1.8 GHz
  • At least 3 GB of RAM, depending on the size of the application data set
  • 80 GB hard drive, depending on the size of the application data set
Recommended hardware requirements:
  • x64 3.0+ GHz processors; Intel Xeon (including Nehalem) or AMD Opteron processors are recommended
  • 8 GB of RAM or more, depending on the size of the application data set
  • High performance network-attached storage (for example, attached via a dedicated iSCSI or fibre channel network), or high performance locally-attached RAID storage (for example, a RAID 6 or RAID 0+1 array with battery-backed write caching, operating on 72GB or 146 GB spindles at 10k or 15k RPM spindle speed)
  • Gigabit Ethernet

Hardware requirements for running a cluster of nodes

These requirements exist:
  • Shared file system. All nodes in the cluster must have access to a shared file system on which the data files for the data store are stored.

  • Load balancer. In most production deployments, it is desirable to configure a load balancer between your front-end application and a cluster of the Oracle Endeca Server nodes. Include host names and ports of all nodes into the load balancer configuration. For more information, see the cluster section of the Oracle Endeca Server Administrator's Guide.