Hardware Requirements for System Center 2012 - Service Manager
Updated: May 13, 2016
Applies To: System Center 2012 SP1 - Service Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager, System Center 2012 - Service Manager
This topic describes the hardware requirements for System Center 2012 – Service Manager.
Hardware Requirements
The following table lists the recommended hardware requirements for the individual parts of Service Manager. These computers can be physical servers or virtual servers.
For System Center 2012 SP1 only: The hardware requirements for Service Manager in System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) are unchanged from its initial release.
Hardware requirements table
| Service Manager database | 8-core 2.66 gigahertz (GHz) CPU 8 gigabytes (GB) of RAM for 20,000 users, 32 GB of RAM for 50,000 users (See the Hardware Performance section in this guide.) 80 GB of available disk space RAID Level 1 or Level 10 drive* |
| Service Manager management server | 4-Core 2.66 GHz CPU 8 GB of RAM (See the Hardware Performance section in this guide.) 10 GB of available disk space |
| Service Manager console | 2-core 2.0 GHz CPU 4 GB of RAM 10 GB of available disk space |
| Data warehouse management server | 4-Core 2.66 GHz CPU 8 GB of RAM (See the Hardware Performance section in this guide.) When a data warehouse management group and SQL Server Analysis Services are hosted on a single server, it should contain at least 16 GB RAM. 10 GB of available disk space |
| Data warehouse databases | 8-core 2.66 GHz CPU 8 GB of RAM for 20,000 users, 32 GB of RAM for 50,000 users (See the Hardware Performance section in this guide.) 400 GB of available disk space RAID Level 1 or Level (1+0) drive |
| Self-Service Portal: Web Content Server with SharePoint Web Parts | 8-Core 2.66 GHz CPU 8-core, 64-bit CPU for medium deployments 16 GB of RAM for 20,000 users, 32 GB of RAM for 50,000 users (See the Hardware Performance section in this guide.) 80 GB of available hard disk space |
* For more information, see RAID levels and Microsoft SQL Server.
** Hardware requirements are based on SharePoint specifications. For more information, see Hardware and Software Requirements (SharePoint Server 2010).