TIBCO Spotfire Server System Requirements - v3.0.x

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TIBCO Spotfire Server 3.0.x
Category	Requirement
Operating System	Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 or higher Sun Solaris 10 Sun Solaris 9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 NOTE: All operating systems must be installed by the customer prior to Spotfire software installation. NOTE: Both 32- and 64-bit versions of the Operating Systems are supported.
Processor	For Windows: Intel Pentium 4, 2 GHz or higher For Sun Solaris: UltraSparc IIIi, 1 GHz or higher
RAM	4 GB recommended (2 GB minimum)
Hard disk space	1 GB of free space to complete installation 500 MB for base server software to execute Recommended 10 GB or greater when TIBCO Spotfire Server 3.0 is configured with database on the same machine.
Spotfire Server Database	Oracle: Oracle11g Release 1 (11.1.0.x) Oracle10g Release 2 (10.2.0.x) Oracle10g Release 1 (10.1.0.x) Oracle10g XE (Not recommended - for non-production environments only ) Microsoft SQL Server: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (Enterprise, Workgroup or Standard) Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2 or higher (Enterprise, Workgroup or Standard) NOTE: Oracle10g XE is supported for use in non-production environments (like evalutation, test or development) but for production environments, Spotfire strongly recommends using one of the recommended database engines listed above. Please note that there are numerous known limitations when using Oracle XE instead of one of the recommended database types, such as: a 4GB limit is enforced on disk space (which will e.g. limit the amount of data that can be stored in the Spotfire Library) it can only address 1GB of RAM it can only use one CPU Oracle bugs that can cause Spotfire server migrations to fail (workaround documented in manual) Spotfire Server startup issues after reboot when Oracle XE is installed on the same machine (caused by Oracle TNS Listener). It is recommended to install Oracle XE on a separate machine NOTE: Please note that the Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server database is third-party software that must be installed by the customer prior to the Spotfire software installation. NOTE: The TIBCO Spotfire Server installation requires two database schemas to be created. These schemas together require minimum 512 MB - there is no upper limit for the size, unless restricted by database limitations.
Tested Information Services Data Sources	Oracle11g Release 1 (11.1.0.x) Oracle10g Release 2 (10.2.0.x) Oracle10g Release 1 (10.1.0.x) Oracle10g XE Oracle9i Release 2 (9.2.0.x) Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2 or higher Microsoft SQL Server 2000 MySQL 5.x DB2 8.1.2.169 DB2 9.x Teradata Ver. 2 Rel. 5.1 Sybase ASE 15.0 Express TIBCO Spotfire Application Data Services NOTE: Please note that the databases are third-party software - not bundled with the Spotfire software installation.
Tested JDBC Drivers	Oracle: Oracle 11g JDBC Thin Driver, ojdbc6.jar for use with JDK 1.6 DataDirect v3.7 Oracle JDBC Driver Microsoft SQL Server: Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 1.2 Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 2.0 DataDirect v3.7 SQL Server JDBC Driver jTDS v1.2.2 MySQL: MySQL Connector/J 5.1 DataDirect v3.7 MySQL JDBC Driver DB2: IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ, version 3.50.152 DataDirect v3.7 DB2 JDBC Driver Sybase: Sybase JConnect, version 6.05 DataDirect v3.7 Sybase JDBC Driver jTDS v1.2.2 Teradata: Teradata JDBC Driver 13.0.0.3
Authentication Method	One of following: LDAP (e.g. Microsoft Active Directory, Sun Java System Directory Server) Kerberos v5 for Active Directory NTLM Microsoft Windows NT Domain Database Table (Spotfire Server used to both manage and store usernames and passwords) Custom JAAS modules using username/password credentials X.509 client certificates (limited to one certificate per CA per Windows profile)
Installation Privileges on Windows	TIBCO Spotfire Server 3.0 must be installed under a Windows user account with full administrative privileges.
Locale	The server should run in an English (United States) language setting.
Administration Client Web Browser	Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Mozilla Firefox 3
Performance Recommendations for Library Service Usage	Database instance to be on a separate machine from TIBCO Spotfire Server machine. 2 GB instance for a Library Service with 100 users. With 100 licensed users of Library Service, Spotfire recommends a server fulfilling the minimal TIBCO Spotfire Server system requirements. With 1000 licensed users of Library Service, Spotfire recommends the following basic configurations: Windows Architecture: A 4 core server with 4GB RAM Solaris Architecture: A 4 core UltraSPARC IIIi or UltraSPARC IV/IV+ system, or an eight core UltraSPARC T1 system, with 8GB RAM
VMWare (Optional)	TIBCO Spotfire Server can (optionally) be run on VMWare Server 1.0.3 or higher
Load Balancer (Optional)	Load balancing Spotfire Servers can be achieved using Apache httpd with the mod_jk module enabled. This solution is fully tested and recommended. It is also possible to use a different load balancing solution, as long as it supports session affinity, which ensures that a client communicates with the same server for the duration of the session.

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