MicroStrategy ONE
Hardware Requirements and Recommendations
MicroStrategy acknowledges that variables, such as CPU speed, CPU type, operating system version, service upgrades, file space, and physical and swap memory, are factors that play an important role in making your deployment of MicroStrategy a successful one.
Determining the necessary hardware requirements to support MicroStrategy is dependent on many factors including the complexity of your MicroStrategy environment, the deployment strategy of MicroStrategy features, user community requirements, expected peak usage requirements, and response time expectations. Factors such as these must be considered to determine the hardware requirements for your MicroStrategy production environment.
For details and exact information regarding supported and certified operating system versions for a MicroStrategy release, see Platform Certifications
For Linux systems, several system settings can affect the performance of MicroStrategy Intelligence Server. These settings do not need to be set before a MicroStrategy installation. For more information on these settings and their recommended values, see Recommended System Settings for Linux.
System hardware requirements and recommendations for Windows
The following table lists the recommended and minimum hardware requirements for MicroStrategy products. The information provided is intended to give you general guidance on hardware requirements to support the MicroStrategy product suite. Determining the necessary hardware requirements to support MicroStrategy is dependent on many factors including but not limited to the complexity of your MicroStrategy environment, the deployment strategy of MicroStrategy features, user community requirements, expected peak usage requirements, and response time expectations. Factors such as these must be considered to determine the hardware requirements for your MicroStrategy production environment.
To ensure the installation process is completed successfully, all MicroStrategy platform and Update installations require 15 GB of disk space for the installer itself. This is in addition to any component or common file storage requirements listed below.
MicroStrategy installs a set of common files that are shared when installing multiple MicroStrategy products on the same machine. With a typical installation setup type, these files are installed on the C: drive.
In addition to the storage requirements listed for the products in the table below, you should estimate an additional 2 GB of storage space for the common files that are shared amongst all products. While this estimate is conservatively high, planning for this additional space helps to ensure a successful installation.
The storage requirements listed in the table below for Intelligence Server and Narrowcast Server include additional space than is required for the initial installation. This additional space is to support the creation of the various files that these products require throughout their use in a MicroStrategy environment. Additional space may be required depending on the use of Intelligence Server and Narrowcast Server in your MicroStrategy environment.
|
MicroStrategy Product |
Memory |
Storage |
|
MicroStrategy System Manager |
2 GB |
0.5 GB |
|
MicroStrategy Command Manager |
2 GB |
0.25 GB |
|
MicroStrategy Enterprise Manager |
1 GB |
0.25 GB |
|
MicroStrategy Object Manager |
1 GB |
0.25 GB |
|
MicroStrategy Developer products |
2 GB or higher |
0.25 GB |
|
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server |
4 GB or higher Using 4 GB of RAM is a minimum level of support for the MicroStrategy Product Suite, which does not take into account the performance of a production system. Performance testing has shown that 64 GB or more of RAM should be available to allow MicroStrategy Intelligence Server to fully support and take advantage of the complete feature set of the MicroStrategy Product Suite, while obtaining system-wide high performance. This level of system resources allows MicroStrategy Intelligence Server to fully use performance-improving technologies such as MicroStrategy OLAP Services, and to support optimal performance for MicroStrategy Report Services documents and dashboards and the other features of the MicroStrategy Product Suite. |
Three times the amount of RAM available to Intelligence Server. For example, an Intelligence Server that is provided 4 GB of RAM requires 12 GB of hard drive space. |
|
MicroStrategy Integrity Manager |
2 GB or higher |
0.25 GB |
|
MicroStrategy Office |
2 GB |
0.5 GB |
|
MicroStrategy Mobile Server |
The MicroStrategy Mobile Server hardware requirements are the same as those for MicroStrategy Web Server hardware requirements. | |
|
MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server |
4 GB |
4 GB |
|
MicroStrategy SDK |
The SDK is not included in the MicroStrategy installation and can instead be downloaded from the MicroStrategy support site. | |
|
MicroStrategy Analytics Modules |
Not applicable |
0.5 GB |
|
MicroStrategy Web: Web Client |
2 GB or higher |
MicroStrategy Web can be accessed from a third-party web browser, which means there are no additional storage requirements. |
|
MicroStrategy Web: Web Server |
4 GB or higher |
0.5 GB |
| MicroStrategy Library Web Server on Windows | 4 GB or higher recommended per CPU core |
1.5 GB |
|
MicroStrategy Library Web Server on UNIX |
4 GB or higher recommended per CPU core |
3 GB |
System hardware requirements and recommendations on Linux
The following information is intended to give you general guidance on hardware requirements to support the MicroStrategy product suite. Determining the necessary hardware requirements to support MicroStrategy is dependent on many factors including but not limited to the complexity of your MicroStrategy environment, the deployment strategy of MicroStrategy features, user community requirements, expected peak usage requirements, and response time expectations. Factors such as these must be considered to determine the hardware requirements for your MicroStrategy production environment.
The storage recommendations listed in the table below provide an estimate for installing and supporting each MicroStrategy product on a separate machine. For information on the total size of a MicroStrategy installation when installing all MicroStrategy products on the same machine, see below.
A successful configuration of Intelligence Server depends on a valid combination of an operating system and a CPU architecture. Valid operating system and CPU architecture combinations for Intelligence Server are listed in the table below.
The storage requirements listed in the table below for Intelligence Server include additional space than is required for the initial installation. This additional space is to support the creation of the various files that these products require throughout their use in a MicroStrategy environment. Additional space may be required depending on the use of Intelligence Server in your MicroStrategy environment.
|
MicroStrategy Product |
Processor |
Memory |
Storage Recommendation |
|
MicroStrategy System Manager |
Linux: x86-64 compatible |
2 GB or higher |
3 GB on other Linux operating systems |
|
MicroStrategy Command Manager |
Linux: x86-64 compatible |
2 GB or higher |
3 GB on other Linux operating systems |
|
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server |
Linux: x86-64 compatible |
16 GB or higher Using 16 GB of RAM is a minimum level of support for the MicroStrategy Product Suite, which does not take into account the performance of a production system. Performance testing has shown that 64 GB or more of RAM should be available to allow MicroStrategy Intelligence Server to fully support and take advantage of the complete feature set of the MicroStrategy Product Suite, while obtaining system-wide high performance. This level of system resources allows MicroStrategy Intelligence Server to fully use performance-improving technologies such as MicroStrategy OLAP Services, and to support optimal performance for MicroStrategy Report Services documents and dashboards and the other features of the MicroStrategy Product Suite. |
Three times the amount of RAM available to Intelligence Server. |
|
MicroStrategy Integrity Manager |
Linux: x86-64 compatible |
2 GB or higher |
3 GB on other Linux operating systems |
|
MicroStrategy Web Services for Office |
Linux: x86-64 compatible |
2 GB or higher |
3 GB on other Linux operating systems |
|
MicroStrategy Mobile Server |
The MicroStrategy Mobile Server hardware requirements are the same as those for MicroStrategy Web Server hardware requirements. |
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|
MicroStrategy SDK |
The SDK is not included in the MicroStrategy installation and can instead be downloaded from the MicroStrategy support site. |
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|
MicroStrategy Web: Web Server |
Linux: x86-64 compatible |
4 GB or higher |
3 GB on other Linux operating systems |
|
MicroStrategy Web: Web Client |
Linux: x86-64 compatible |
2 GB or higher |
MicroStrategy Web can be accessed from a third-party web browser, which means there are no additional storage requirements. |
Storage requirements for all MicroStrategy products on Linux
The storage recommendations listed above provide the storage recommendations for the MicroStrategy products if they are installed individually on separate machines.
A conservative estimate of the total file size if you install all MicroStrategy products on the same machine, which can then share a set of common files, is 12 GB.
An update installation requires a minimum of 13GB disk space.
Temporary directory requirements for installation
In addition to the space requirements listed above, you also need free space in the temporary directory. When installing on Linux, the installer requires 100 MB of free space in the temporary directory. The default location of the temporary directory is /tmp.
If the space in the default temporary directory is inadequate, you can use the tempdir command line option to change the location of the temporary directory. This directory must already exist and it must be specified using its absolute path, for example:
./setup.sh –tempdir /home/user/tmp
If you change the location of the temporary directory, free space is still required in the default location of the temporary directory to launch the MicroStrategy installation routine.
MicroStrategy Mobile hardware requirements for mobile devices
The tables below list the MicroStrategy Mobile client application hardware requirements for various mobile devices. See Platform Certifications for supported mobile operating systems.
Flash memory
|
Requirement |
Minimum |
Recommended |
|
Flash memory |
32 MB |
64 MB |
Android devices
Refer to the third-party documentation for your Android device vendor to determine the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) for your device.