Zephyr Data Center Requirements

Zephyr must run in an isolated instance where there is no Jira running or any other Tomcat.

  • Zephyr should only be installed on its' own server. If you are running a Jira instance, it should be installed on a different server.
  • We recommend you to have Zephyr installed on a separate instance from where you have your Jira/Tomcat installed. 

Zephyr Enterprise Data Center (for Windows On-Premise Installations only)

OS

Windows Server 2008 / 2012 / 2016 / 2019
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
Firewall (if present): Allow ports 80, 443 (if HTTPS). Must support WebSocket protocol
Proxy (if present): Must support WebSocket protocol
Nodes should have at least 1Gbps Ethernet connectivity (10Gbps recommended)

Account

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

Software

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


Zephyr Data Center (for Linux On-Premise Installations only)

OS

Red Hat Enterprise 64-bit (the latest supported version is RHEL 8)

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 (for root user) and 1024,8443 (for non-root user), 8005, 9300, 5701, 5702, 37000, 37001
Firewall (if present): Allow ports 80, 443 (for root user) and 1024,8443 (for non-root user). Must support WebSocket protocol
Proxy (if present): Must support WebSocket protocol
Nodes should have at least 1Gbps Ethernet connectivity (10Gbps recommended) 

Account

Installer and services will be installed as the current user

Software

Java: Oracle JDK 8
Connector: JDBC 8.0.32
Note: NO other Tomcat can be installed on the machine. JRE is not supported††


 
Supported Databases

MySQL

Database Version: MySQL 8.0.x series

JDBC Driver Version: mysql-connector-java-8.0.32.jar or latest

Microsoft SQL Server

Version 2017 or 2019

JDBC Driver Version: 4.2

Oracle

Database Version: 12c, 19c

JDBC Driver : ojdbc7.jar


Zephyr Client

OS

Any Desktop OS

Browser

Any one of these three with versions that support Web Sockets:

  • Chrome
  • Firefox
  • Edge

Networking

Client machine must have access to port 80 for HTTP connection (or 443 for HTTPS) to the Zephyr Server

OtherScreen resolution of 1280×1024 (1280×900 for widescreen) or higher


ZBots

OS

Windows Server 2008 / 2012 / 2016 / 2019
Windows 7 Enterprise / Windows 8 Enterprise / Windows 10 Enterprise
Linux (Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS, SUSE) 
macOS
Only 32 bit supported

CPU

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

RAM

Minimum 1GB

Disk Space

At least 100MB Free

Networking

Wired Ethernet

Account

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

Software

Oracle JDK 8. JRE is not supported. 32-bit only

Additional 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.

Ports Explained:

  • 80, 443 (for root user) and 1024, 8443 (for non-root user), 8005 and 8009 are used by tomcat and can be configured in the server.xml file under zephyr\tomcat\conf\
  • 9200 is used by Elasticsearch
  • 5701, 5702, 37000, 37001 are used by Hazelcast
  • Database system - 3306 (unless changed) for MySQL and 1433 (unless changed) for Microsoft SQL Server
  • Elasticsearch - 9200 on all nodes of the cluster include the one where Elasticsearch is installed.
  • Zephyr Instances - 5701,5702 (inbound ports) and 37000,37001 (outbound ports)
  • Load Balancer - 80 (unless changed) for load balancer access.

Software Version Explained:

  • Elasticsearch is strictly required for installing Zephyr Data Center. The supported version is 8.6.2
  • Oracle JDK 8u101 or higher required. JRE is not supported.
  • No other database should be present on the server node.

Additional deployment requirements:

  • The Zephyr instances need to be able to access a shared storage for storing common data (ex: attachments, etc) with a capacity of 100GB which could be a further part of a HA cluster on its' own since this device is to be available without fail to all the nodes as long as the cluster is functional.
  • Nodes must be configured with the same timezone and keep the current time synchronized. Using NTPD (Network Time Protocol Daemon) or some similar service is a good way to arrange it.
  • Nodes must be able to communicate with each other based on IP address. (hosts file needs to be updated as required for this communication to work).