Pre-Requisites

This section explains the system requirements to run Alpana Server.

Software

Operating System

Windows OS (x64) :

• Windows Server : 2012 R2, 2016
• Windows : 10 (Version 1607+)
  

Database

Microsoft SQL Server is required.
Microsoft SQL Server Express possible, but see limitations related to this edition of SQL (concurrency, database size, resource usage, etc).

During installation, you will need a login to SQL Server which has the permissions to create users and databases.

Other software

!Pre-requisites order is very important.
If you modify any IIS setting after installing AspNet Core, then you will have to Repair AspNet Core : see Installation Troubleshooting.

Pre-requisites must be installed in the following order :

1. Microsoft IIS : this must be installed and configured first
2. PowerShell must be active
3. .NET Framework 4.7.2 can be found here then download the “Runtime”. Alternately, an offline installer exists here . Installing this component requires to restart the machine.
4. AspNet Core 2.2 : select version “Runtime & Hosting Bundle”. Installing this component requires to restart IIS.
5. IIS URL Rewrite : this should be installed after IIS

!You must restart IIS after installing AspNet Core

*note : .NET Framework 4.8 is not yet compatible with Alpana Server v3.0.x

Hardware Requirements

!Hardware requirements highly depend on usage.
Typically, SQL and IIS will take disk space, disk I/O, RAM and CPU depending on several factors like database usage, dashboards complexity and website traffic.
Please see with your website and database administrators to size your application appropriately.

*When considering performance, please consider all features that will create queries and stress the system.
For example, use Auto-refresh with care.
Make sure to do stress and performance tests for your application to scale appropriately.

Hardware Minimum

!Those are the bare minimum that will get you a running installation.
As soon as you will add content, add data, and increase traffic, you will need more.

• HDD : 1GB
• RAM : 3GB including OS
• CPU : any dual core CPU, x86 or x64 architecture

Hardware Recommended

To go beyond the minimal installation, you will need evaluate your requirements based on traffic, number of dashboards, number of tenants, other software and databases hosted on the same machine, etc…

Typically, it’s recommended to have at least :

• SSD for fast I/O, 50GB+ with free space always available (usual system administrator advice apply)
• RAM : 8GB for a small/medium site with few databases an no other big software installed
• good server CPU, like recent Xeon
  

This can be much more if your application serves many dashboards to many users on many tenants.

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