Hardware Requirements

Minimum and Recommended Hardware Requirements

Important: The hardware requirements in this section are for the listed products only. They do not include 2GB of hard drive space for IBM infrastructure shared libraries that are required by most products and that are installed once per installation directory. They do not include requirements for supporting software such as RDBMSs. They do not include the additional requirements listed in Additional Hardware Requirements. You must determine the overall hardware requirements for each of your machines based on the overall requirements of your operating system and software.

The table below lists the minimum and recommended (in parentheses) hardware requirements for your products; products not listed have minimal or no hardware requirements (for example, products that are hosted on Integration Server).

Product	Hard Drive Space	RAM	Cores
ActiveTransfer Agent	10MB	512MB	1
ActiveTransfer Server/Gateway	100MB (200MB)	512MB	1
webMethods API Gateway*	2GB	1.75GB	1 (2)
ApplinX
Server	100MB	80MB+300KB per user	2 (4)
Administration	75MB	40MB
JSP Framework	50MB	2GB
C#.NET Framework	55MB	2GB
VB.NET Framework	30MB	2GB
Visual Studio Add-In	1MB	2GB
BigMemory Max	200MB (6GB)	3GB (5GB)	2 (8)
IBM webMethods DesignerEclipse platform	500MB (1.5GB)	1.5GB (2GB)	1 (2)
webMethods Developer Portal	20GB	2GB	1
EntireX
Core Files	100MB	2GB	1
Application Monitoring Data Collector	5MB	250MB	1
Command Line Scripts	2MB	100MB	1
Mainframe Broker Monitoring	50MB	500MB	1
Broker	20MB Windows, 30MB UNIX	1GB	2
Development Tools	5MB Windows, 10MB UNIX	1GB	1
Mini Runtime	10MB	1GB	1
Web Services deployed in IBM webMethods Runtime**	140MB Windows, 150MB UNIX	1GB	1
EntireX plug-in to IBM webMethods Designer	50MB	50MB
Integration Server	300MB (500MB)	1GB (2GB)	1 (2)
Microservices Runtime	70MB (100MB)	1GB	1
IBM My webMethods Server	1G (2G)	2GB (4GB)	2 (4)
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Analytic Engine	1GB	4GB (8GB)	2 (4)
Infrastructure Data Collector	300MB	2GB	1
Web Service Data Collector	100MB	256MB	1
Platform Manager	500MB	128MB	1
Terracotta	500MB (10GB)	2GB (4GB)	2 (8)
Trading Networks Server	50MB		1
Universal Messaging realm server when used with IBM webMethods products	500MB	2GB	2
Includes 300MB hard drive space and 512MB RAM for the API Data Store, 130MB hard drive space for Microgateway, and 200MB hard drive space and 256MB RAM for Kibana. *Includes 140MB hard drive space, 1GB RAM, and 1 core for the required and automatically installed Web Services Stack.

Additional Hardware Requirements

The table below lists hardware requirements beyond those listed in the previous section.

Product	Additional Hardware Requirements
ActiveTransfer Server	ActiveTransfer Server needs additional hard drive space if you use the hard drive as your virtual file system. The space required depends on the total size of documents ActiveTransfer Server needs to store, upload, and download. ActiveTransfer Server might need additional hard drive space for log files.
BigMemory Max	Hard drive space, RAM, and core requirements for BigMemory Max vary significantly depending on the IBM webMethods products and customized applications you are using BigMemory Max with. You will need to determine processing and memory requirements by measuring the applications, since these requirements vary. Contact Software AG Professional Services for help.
IBM webMethods Designer	For IBM webMethods Designer Eclipse platform, 700MB additional free hard drive space is required in the system temp directory(Windows) or temporary (UNIX) directory. Each product plug-ins you install in IBM webMethods Designer can require from 50K to 150MB of additional free hard drive space.
Deployer	Hard drive space for the deployment projects you create. When allocating space, allow for the number of projects to increase over time.
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Analytic Engine	The Analytic Engine needs 1GB virtual swap space and a disk subsystem with 10GB available free space. In a production environment, the disk subsystem must have a redundant array of independent disks (RAID 5), an UltraWide SCSI, and 10K to 15K RPM drives. Also in a production environment, the Analytic Engine needs additional hard drive space for log files. The recommended amount is 100MB; the engine needs 50MB of space for each log file.
Web Service Data Collector	Each Web Service Data Collector needs 128MB of virtual swap space. In a production environment, each Web Service Data Collector needs additional hard drive space for log files. The recommended amount is 75MB; each Web Service Data Collector needs 5MB of hard drive space for each log file. More hard drive space might be needed if you use debug level or higher logging.
Terracotta	Hard drive space, RAM, and core requirements for Terracotta vary significantly depending on the IBM webMethods products and customized applications you are using Terracotta with. You will need to determine processing and memory requirements by measuring the applications, since these requirements vary. Contact Software AG Professional Services for help.
Trading Networks	To use large document handling, Trading Networks Server needs additional hard drive space on which to temporarily save documents (instead of storing them in memory). For detailed information, see IBM webMethods Trading Networks User’s Guide.
Universal Messaging	If you use persistent topics or queues, or persistent messages, Universal Messaging needs additional hard drive space to persist the published data. The amount of space required would be loosely based on this equation: messages per second x message size x message time to live. If you store messages in memory only, Universal Messaging needs additional heap within the JVM to hold references to these messages. The heap size required is based on the same equation. By default the Universal Messagingserver is configured to use 1GB of heap, and maximum 1GB for direct (off-heap) memory, hence the requirement for 2GB RAM by default. 2 CPU cores is the minimal requirement for running a production Universal Messaging server. Based on the load on the system, you may need to increase the cores.