Hardware requirements

For the best performance, run IBM WebSphere InterChange Server (ICS) on a dedicated system. The system should have restricted access to maintain security.

Table 1 lists the minimum hardware requirements. However, the actual requirements for your system may be greater, depending on the complexity of your specific ICS environment, throughput, and data object size. The following information is for the ICS system only. If you run other applications on the same system, make appropriate adjustments.

Table 1. Hardware Requirements

Component Minimum required
Processor
Pentium III @ 1 GHz
Memory
512 MB
Disk space: InterChange Server and supporting software
20 GB
InterChange Server databases
  • Repository 300-500 MB
  • Rollback 500 MB
  • Temporary 500 MB

Additional high-availability requirements
  • Microsoft certified cluster machine
  • Shared disk subsystem with RAID

HA

WBI Server components must be set up to run as Windows services in a high-availability environment.

Each machine in the cluster must meet the following requirements in addition to those listed in Table 1:

  • Microsoft-certified cluster machine--Each machine in the cluster must be a Microsoft certified cluster machine. To view a list of Microsoft certified cluster machines, go to http://www.microsoft.com/hcl/default.asp, select Cluster, then click Search Now.
  • Shared disk subsystem with RAID (redundant arrays of independent disks) --All systems in the cluster must share a disk subsystem. For best performance, the level of redundancy is RAID 0, but RAID 1 is also acceptable.

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