Hardware Guidelines for Single-Server Environments
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This section lists the minimum hardware requirements and hardware guidelines for environments where the M-Files server machine runs the M-Files Server application and the database server (Firebird or Microsoft SQL Server).
Important: The configurations that this section
gives are examples only. There are many things that have an effect on the system
performance. For example, the degree of concurrent activity and the type of operations that
users do in the vault.
The disk space requirements for the metadata database are dependent on the complexity of the metadata structure and the number of object versions in the database. You can use the estimates of this section in typical document management use cases.
In large M-Files implementations, contact M-Files to help you with the implementation plan.
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 2 cores |
| Memory | 1 GB |
| Storage | 300 MB disk space for M-Files Server |
Environments with up to 50,000 objects
| CPU | 4 cores |
| Memory | 4 GB |
| Storage | RAID 1 or RAID 5 disks and enough disk space for files, database, and backups |
Environments with up to one million objects
| CPU | 8 cores |
| Memory | 16 GB |
| Storage | RAID 1 or RAID 5 disks and enough disk space for files, database files, and backups. Database files, Microsoft SQL Server transaction logs, and search index files must be stored on solid state drives (SSD) for optimal performance. |
| Operating system | 64-bit operating system |
| Database management system | Microsoft SQL Server 2019 or later, Standard or Enterprise Edition |