Thursday, October 11, 2012

Hardware and software requirements for SharePoint 2013


Summary: Lists the minimum hardware and software requirements to install and run SharePoint 2013 Preview.

Applies to:  SharePoint Foundation 2013 | SharePoint Server 2013 

Overview

SharePoint 2013 provides for several installation scenarios. Currently, these installations include single server with built-in database installations, single-server farm installations, and multiple-server farm installations. This article describes the hardware and software requirements for SharePoint 2013 in each of these scenarios.

Hardware and software requirements for other SharePoint 2013 capabilities

If you plan to use capabilities that are offered through SharePoint 2013 or through other integration channels, such as SQL Server or Exchange Server, you also need to meet the hardware and software requirements that are specific to that capability.

Hardware requirements—location of physical servers

All servers that belong to a server farm, including database servers, must physically reside in the same datacenter. Redundancy and failover between closely located data centers that are configured as a single farm ("stretched farm”) is not supported in SharePoint 2013.

Hardware requirements—web servers, application servers, and single server installations

The values in the following table are minimum values for installations on a single server with a built-in database and for web and application servers that are running SharePoint 2013 in a multiple server farm installation.
For all installation scenarios, you must have sufficient hard disk space for the base installation and sufficient space for diagnostics such as logging, debugging, creating memory dumps, and so on. For production use, you must also have additional free disk space for day-to-day operations. In addition, maintain two times as much free space as you have RAM for production environments.


Installation Scenario
Deployment type and scale
RAM
Processor

Hard disk space
Single server with a built-in database or single server that uses SQL ServerDevelopment or evaluation installation of SharePoint Foundation 20138 GB64-bit, 4 cores80 GB for system drive



Single server with a built-in database or single server that uses SQL Server



Development or evaluation installation of SharePoint Server 2013



24 GB



64-bit, 4 cores



80 GB for system drive




Web server or application server in a three-tier farm




Pilot, user acceptance test, or production deployment of SharePoint Server 2013



12 GB



64-bit, 4 cores



80 GB for system drive

 

Hardware requirements—database servers

The requirements in the following table apply to database servers in environments that have multiple servers in the farm.







Component
Minimum requirement

Processor


·         64-bit, 4 cores for small deployments
·         64-bit, 8 cores for medium deployments



RAM






·         8 GB for small deployments
·         16 GB for medium deployments
For large deployments, see the "Estimate memory requirements" section in Storage and SQL Server capacity planning and configuration (SharePoint Server 2010).
These values are larger than those recommended as the minimum values for SQL Server because of the distribution of data that is required for a SharePoint 2013 environment. For more information about SQL Server system requirements, see Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2008 R2.
Hard disk

80 GB for system drive
Hard disk space depends on how much content that you have in your deployment. For information about how to estimate the amount of content and other databases for your deployment, see Storage and SQL Server capacity planning and configuration (SharePoint Server 2010).

Software requirements

The requirements in the following section apply to the following installations:
·         Single server with built-in database
·         Server farm with a single server in the farm
·         Server farm with multiple servers in the farm
The Microsoft SharePoint Products Preparation Tool can assist you in the installation of the software prerequisites for SharePoint 2013. Ensure that you have an Internet connection, because some prerequisites are installed from the Internet.

Minimum software requirements

 

This section provides minimum software requirements for each server in the farm.
Minimum requirements for a database server in a farm:
·         One of the following:
o        The 64-bit edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2012.
o        The 64-bit edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1
·         The 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter or the 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2012 Standard or Datacenter
·         The SharePoint parsing process crashes in Windows Server 2008 R2 (KB 2554876)
·         FIX: IIS 7.5 configurations are not updated when you use the ServerManager class to commit configuration changes (KB 2708075)
·         MS11-063: Vulnerability in Windows Client/Server Run-time subsystem could allow elevation of privilege: August 9, 2011 (KB 2567680)
·         Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.5 Release Candidate (RC)


Minimum requirements for a single server with built-in database:
·         The 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter or the 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2012 Standard or Datacenter
·         The SharePoint parsing process crashes in Windows Server 2008 R2 (KB 2554876)
·         FIX: IIS 7.5 configurations are not updated when you use the ServerManager class to commit configuration changes (KB 2708075)
·         WCF: process may crash with “System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: An invalid argument was supplied” when under high load (KB 2726478)
·         MS11-063: Vulnerability in Windows Client/Server Run-time subsystem could allow elevation of privilege: August 9, 2011 (KB 2567680)
·         The Setup program installs the following prerequisite for a single server with built-in database:
o        Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 - Express Edition
·         The Microsoft SharePoint Products Preparation Tool installs the following prerequisites for a single server with built-in database:
o        Web Server (IIS) role
o        Application Server role
o        Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.5 Release Candidate (RC)
o        SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Native Client
o        Microsoft WCF Data Services 5.0
o        Microsoft Information Protection and Control Client (MSIPC)
o        Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 SP1 (x64)
o        Windows Management Framework 3.0 Release Candidate (RC) which includes Windows PowerShell 3.0
o        Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) 1.0 and Microsoft Identity Extensions (previously named WIF 1.1)
o        Windows Server AppFabric
o        Cumulative Update Package 1 for Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server (KB 2671763)


Minimum requirements for front-end web servers and application servers in a farm:
·         The 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter or the 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2012 Standard or Datacenter.
·         The SharePoint parsing process crashes in Windows Server 2008 R2 (KB 2554876)
·         FIX: IIS 7.5 configurations are not updated when you use the ServerManager class to commit configuration changes (KB 2708075)
·         WCF: process may crash with “System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: An invalid argument was supplied” when under high load (KB 2726478)
·         MS11-063: Vulnerability in Windows Client/Server Run-time subsystem could allow elevation of privilege: August 9, 2011 (KB 2567680)
·         The Microsoft SharePoint Products Preparation Tool installs the following prerequisites for front-end web servers and application servers in a farm:
o        Web Server (IIS) role
o        Application Server role
o        Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.5 Release Candidate (RC)
o        SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Native Client
o        Microsoft WCF Data Services 5.0
o        Microsoft Information Protection and Control Client (MSIPC)
o        Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 SP1 (x64)
o        Windows Management Framework 3.0 Release Candidate (RC) which includes Windows PowerShell 3.0
o        Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) 1.0 and Microsoft Identity Extensions (previously named WIF 1.1)
o        Windows Server AppFabric
o        Cumulative Update Package 1 for Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server (KB 2671763)


Minimum requirements for client computers

·         A supported browser.

Optional software

 

Environment
Optional software


Single server with built-in database, front-end web servers, and application servers in a farm
























·         .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server (part of Microsoft .NET Framework)
·         .NET Framework Data Provider for OLE DB (part of Microsoft .NET Framework)
·         Windows Azure Workflow 1.0 Preview
You can install Windows Azure Workflow 1.0 Preview on a dedicated computer.
·         Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies
This add-in is used by Access Services for SharePoint 2013.
·         Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Data-Tier Application (DAC) Framework 64-bit edition
·         Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Transact-SQL ScriptDom 64-bit edition
·         Microsoft System CLR Types for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 64-bit edition
·         Microsoft SQL Server 2012 LocalDB 64-bit edition
·         Microsoft Data Services for the .NET Framework 4 and Silverlight 4 (formerly ADO.NET Data Services)
·         Exchange Web Services Managed API, version 1.2
·         Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Remote Blob Store which is part of the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Feature Pack
·         SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services ADOMD.NET
·         KB 2472264
If you are running a geo-distributed deployment and your servers are running Windows Server 2008 R2, then installing KB 2472264 can optimize network latency in a dedicated datacenter network.

Client computer
·         Windows 7
·         Office 2013
·         Silverlight 3





Reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(v=office.15).aspx

1 comment:

  1. Nice post hey do you have a sample SP 2013 install document step by step?

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