System Requirements

BDNA Data Platform 5.5.0 has the following system requirements.

Software

BDNA Data Platform 5.5.0 has the following software requirements.

Software

Category

Requirement

Operating Systems

Windows Server 2012 R2™
Windows Server 2016 R2™

Note • Support for operating systems and databases in English language only.

Databases

MS SQL Server 2012™ (Standard Edition)
MS SQL Server 2014™ (Enterprise and Standard Editions)
MS SQL Server 2016™ (Enterprise and Standard Editions)
MS SQL Server 2019™ (Enterprise and Standard Editions)
Oracle 11gR2 Enterprise Edition™
Oracle 12c Enterprise Edition™

Note • Support for operating systems and databases in English language only.

Note • Oracle 12c has known issues when running in a Windows environment. As of the publish date of this document, Oracle has not provided a patch to correct the issues.

Browsers

Data Platform supports the latest released versions of the following browsers:

Google Chrome™
Microsoft Edge™
Windows Internet Explorer™
Mozilla Firefox™

Hardware

BDNA Data Platform 5.5.0 has the following hardware requirements.

Hardware

Environment

Data Platform Server

User Console Server

Database Server

Small

(up to 2,000 devices)

CPU: Xeon ES-2630 or similar, 2 cores
RAM: 4 GB
Storage capacity: 20 GB free space
Network connection: Gigabit
Disk I/O: 80 MB/sec
CPU: Xeon ES-2630 or similar, 2 cores
RAM: 8 GB
Storage capacity: 20 GB free space
Network connection: Gigabit
Disk I/O: 80 MB/sec
CPU: Xeon ES-2630 or similar, 2 cores
RAM: 16 GB
Storage capacity: 50 GB free space
Network connection: Gigabit
Disk I/O: 80 MB/sec

Medium

(up to 50,000 devices)

CPU: Xeon ES-2630 or similar, 4 cores
RAM: 8 GB
Storage capacity: 100 GB free space
Network connection: Gigabit
Disk I/O: 80 MB/sec
CPU: Xeon ES-2630 or similar, 4 cores
RAM: 16 GB
Storage capacity: 100 GB free space
Network connection: Gigabit
Disk I/O: 80 MB/sec
CPU: Xeon ES-2630 or similar, 4 cores
RAM: 32 GB
Storage capacity: 350 GB free space
Network connection: Gigabit
Disk I/O: 150 MB/sec

Large

(up to 300,000 devices)

CPU: Xeon ES-2630 or similar, 8 cores
RAM: 16 GB
Storage capacity: 200 GB free space
Network connection: Gigabit
Disk I/O: 80 MB/sec
CPU: Xeon ES-2630 or similar, 8 cores
RAM: 32 GB
Storage capacity: 200 GB free space
Network connection: Gigabit
Disk I/O: 80 MB/sec
CPU: Xeon ES-2630 or similar, 8 cores
RAM: 64 GB
Storage capacity: 1.5 TB free space
Network connection: Gigabit
Disk I/O: 250 MB/sec

Note • For environments with more than 300,000 devices, please contact the BDNA Services team.

Network Ports and Protocols

BDNA Data Platform 5.5 Installation has the following network ports and protocol requirements.

Network Ports and Protocols

Port

Server

Protocol

Usage

80 (default), 443

Application

HTTP, HTTPS

IIS (Administration Console)

Note • If you use IIS Express, port 8080 is used by default.

8088 (default)

Application

TCP

Remote communication between BDNA application servers

1433 (typical)

Database

TCP

BDNA database (MSSQL)

1521 (typical)

Database

TCP

BDNA database (Oracle)

Note • The actual port number used for data extraction from your source database (MSSQL, Oracle, DB2, etc.) to the Normalize Server is dependent on the site-specific configuration of your source database.