Hardware guidelines for single-server environments

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	See the recommendations in Supported operating systems for M-Files Server.
Database management system	The most recent version of Microsoft SQL Server, Standard or Enterprise Edition. For further details, see Microsoft SQL Server requirements.