Hardware requirements for Server
Note: These memory and disk requirements listed below are for the IBM® WebSphere® Application
Server.
For Microsoft
® Windows
® XP, Server 2003 and 2008
- Intel Pentium processor at 500MHz or faster
- Intel® EM64T
or AMD Opteron.
- Minimum 512 MB physical memory; 1 GB recommended
- Minimum 2 GB RAM
- Minimum 1 GB of free disk space for installation (includes SDK)
For Linux
® x86
- Intel Pentium processor at 500 MHz or faster
- Intel EM64T or AMD Opteron
- Minimum 512 MB of physical memory; 1 GB recommended
- Minimum 1 GB of free disk space for installation (includes SDK)
For Linux on IBM System z
- System
z™ processors
- Minimum of 1,119MB available disk space for installation
- Minimum of 512 MB memory; 1 GB recommended
- CD-ROM drive
For IBM AIX
® (32
bit WebSphere Application
Server)
- IBM POWER™ family
of processors
- Minimum 512 MB physical memory; 1 GB recommended
- Minimum 1 GB of free disk space for installation
For IBM AIX (64 bit WebSphere Application Server)
- IBM POWER family of processors
- Minimum 1 GB physical memory recommended
- Minimum 1 GB of free disk space for installation
For Solaris SPARC
- Sun Solaris operating environment compatible SPARC workstation at 440MHz,
or faster
- Minimum 512 MB physical memory; 1 GB recommended
- Minimum 1 GB of free disk space for installation
For additional software products, for example DB2® or IBM Communications Server, refer
to the respective product documentation.
Hardware requirements for Client
- x86 processors capable of supporting the supported operating systems
- 512 MB RAM
- 500 MB free disk space
- Display Resolution: Super video graphics array/adapter (SVGA) 1024 x 768
display
- High Contrast Mode: 1152 x 768 display, only default font settings (10pt
Sans)
Hardware requirements for development environment
Note: These memory and disk requirements listed below are for the IBM Rational® Application
Developer.
- Intel Pentium® III
processor at 800 MHz, or higher recommended
- Display, minimum requirements: 1024 x 768
- 1 GB RAM minimum, 2 GB RAM
- Disk space requirements: 3.7 GB minimum for installing Rational Application
Developer and additional disk space for development resources (minimum disk
space can be reduced if optional features and run times are not installed).
If the development environment requires additional software products, for
example DB2 or
IBM Communications Server, refer to the specific product documentation.
For the latest hardware requirements, refer to the documentation at http://www.ibm.com/software/.