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Offline Services Hardware Requirements

Express Product

Processor

  • Required: Pentium processor
  • Recommended: Pentium III-500Mhz for more than 500 documents

Memory
Memory requirements mainly depend on the amount of files selected for backup.

  • Required: 128MB RAM above operating system and application requirements
  • Recommended: 256MB RAM above operating system and application requirements

Disk Space

  • Required: 50MB plus space for local cache.
  • Recommended: Amount of free space equal to the backup account limit. The local cache can be as large as the total size of all files selected for backup; a file selection of 100MB needs up to 100MB extra disk space for the cache.

More detailed information can be found in the appropriate Zen Vault Express user guide

Professional Product

Processor and Memory

  • Required: Pentium III processor with 256MB memory above operating requirements
  • Recommended: Processor and memory requirements increase with the amount of data protected by this service: Amount of data protected Recommended processor Recommended memory.
Amount of data protected Recommended processor Recommended memory
Less than 100GB Pentium III 500MHz 512MB
200GB P4 entry level 512MB
500GB P4 2.0 GHz 1GB
1TB Dual Xeon 3GHz 2GB

Disk Space

  • Required: 50MB plus space for local cache
  • Recommended: Amount of free space equal to the backup account limit.
    • File Server: The local cache can be as large as the total size of all files selected for backup. A file selection of 10 GB needs up to 10 GB free space for the cache.
    • Database: Space is needed for the data dump, which can be as large as the database, as well space for the cache, which is compressed version of the database. Assuming 1:2 compression on a 10GB database you are recommended to have 15GB (10GB for the dump and 5GB for the cache) free space available.
  • Virtual Memory Settings: Double the amount of RAM, with a minimum of 512MB (Total for all disk volumes)

More detailed information can be found in the appropriate Zen Vault Professional user guide

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