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These system requirements apply to the Zephyr Enterprise Server product. The information below is generally used to ensure that system administrators for Zephyr Enterprise are always working with an instance of Zephyr Enterprise that is supported and optimized with your hardware, operating system and network.


After viewing the Zephyr Enterprise Server requirements below, you can view the steps for installing and upgrading the product. Please use the links provided below or the navigation on the left hand side:

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OS

Windows Server 2008 / 2012 / 2016
Windows 7 Enterprise / Windows 8 Enterprise / Windows 10 Enterprise

CPU

Quad-core CPU Intel Pentium or AMD Opteron (2Ghz or higher)

RAM

Minimum 8GB; Preferred 12GB
RAM recommendations can be found here 

Disk Space

At least 5GB Free (250GB-1TB recommended for large enterprise installations)

Networking

Wired Ethernet
Static IP address
REQUIRED Ports: 80, 443 (if HTTPS), 8005, 9300, 5701, 5702, 37000, 37001, 37638
Firewall (if present): Allow ports 80, 443 (if HTTPS). Must support WebSocket protocol
Proxy (if present): Must support WebSocket protocol

Account

Administrator access to the machine 
Installer and services needs to "Run As Administrator"

Software

Java: Oracle JDK 8
Note: NO other Tomcat or MySQL can be installed on the machine. JRE is not supported††

DatabaseEmbedded MySQL and remote MySQL only. All other supported databases use Zephyr Enterprise Data Center


Zephyr Enterprise Server (for Linux On-Premise Installations only)

OS

RedHat Enterprise 64-bit
CentOS 64-bit
Ubuntu/Debian 64-bit 
SUSE/openSUSE 64-bit

CPU

Quad-core CPU Intel Pentium or AMD Opteron (2Ghz or higher)

RAM

Minimum 8GB; Preferred 12GB

Disk Space

At least 5GB Free (250GB-1TB recommended for large enterprise installations)

Networking

Wired Ethernet
Static IP address
REQUIRED Ports: 80, 443 (if HTTPS), 8005, 3306, 9300, 5701, 5702, 37000, 37001
Firewall (if present): Allow ports 80, 443 (if HTTPS). Must support WebSocket protocol
Proxy (if present): Must support WebSocket protocol

Account

Superuser (root) access to the machine 
Installer and services needs to run as "root"

Software

Java: Oracle JDK 8
Connector: JDBC 5.1.40
Note: NO other Tomcat or MySQL can be installed on the machine. JRE is not supported††

Database

Embedded MySQL and remote MySQL only. All other supported databases use Zephyr Enterprise Data Center
Database property 'global_max_connections' must be set to 500 or above

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titleAdditional Notes

All port numbers mentioned are by default, and can be configured to fit your specific environment setup. If any firewalls or proxies are present, it is required that they support the WebSocket protocol.

Anchorportsports†Ports Ports Explained:

  • 80, 443(if HTTPS), 8005 and 8009 are used by tomcat and can be configured in the server.xml file under zephyr\tomcat\conf\
  • 3306 is used by MySQL in Linux and configured in the my.cnf
  • 9300 is used by Elastic search
  • 5701, 5702, 37000, 37001 are used by Hazelcast

Anchorsoftwaresoftware††Software Software Version Explained:

  • The MySQL software has to be the major/minor (5.6.X) version
  • No other MySQL should be present on the server instance
  • Oracle JDK must be JDK 8u101 or higher. JRE is not supported
  • Zephyr Enterprise Server for Windows includes MySQL in the installation package on top of allowing remote MySQL
  • Zephyr Enterprise Server for Linux requires a separate installation of MySQL not included in the installation package on top of allowing remote MySQL

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