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.
A service manager must be used as the default executable for the image, as the agent and the DBMS server run simultaneously inside the container.
Privileged mode is required for running the systemd service manager in a container environment.
For more information, refer to Chapter 28.
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:
For the agent:
One server with the following minimum configuration: