4.1. Minimum Hardware and Software Requirements #

Below are the minimum hardware and software requirements for servers where the manager and agent are deployed.

The following can act as a server:

  • bare metal server

  • Xen/KVM/VMWare-based virtual machine

  • container environment in privileged mode

Important

Using PPEM at minimum requirements does not provide fault tolerance and is recommended only for pilot or experimental projects, low-load environments without high availability and fault tolerance requirements.

For the manager:

One server with the following minimum configuration:

  • CPU: 2 pcs.

  • RAM: 4 GB

  • SSD: 40 GB

  • Platform: x86_64 or any listed in Chapter 5

  • Operating system: Linux or any listed in Chapter 5

For the agent:

One server with the following minimum configuration:

  • CPU: 2 pcs.

  • RAM: 2 GB

  • SSD: 10 GB

  • Platform: x86_64 or any listed in Chapter 5

  • Operating system: Linux or any listed in Chapter 5