System Requirements

These specifications are for a dedicated physical machine hosting ImageManager.

Note: Starting with ImageManager 7.9, Cloud Services is no longer a replication target due to Cloud Services End of Life.

• 2 GB physical RAM (4 GB recommended).
• 2 cores (4 cores recommended)
• 350 MB of free hard disk space for installation files (400 MB recommended).
• Microsoft .NET 3.5 or newer.
• Must meet the minimum requirements listed in Operating System Support.

Note: These are the minimum requirements for a dedicated physical ImageManager system. If you run any other services or applications, or if you add managed folders, replication jobs, or HSR jobs, or on a virtual machine you must have more memory, a faster processor, and adequate drive space to compensate for the increased load.

Not Recommended

Arcserve recommends NOT installing or running ImageManager on any machine that is running the following applications or services:

• Active Directory Services and Roles – Domain Controllers
• Exchange
• SQL Databases
• Other resource intensive programs
• Arcserve strongly recommends that you do not install ImageManager directly on a production Microsoft Hyper-V host. The preferred installation for ImageManager is on non-production Hyper-V hosts or on a Hyper-V guest VM, but not directly on a production host.

If you install on a production host

• Ensure there are no I/O intensive operations (such as backups, SQL dumps, shadow copies, defrags, DB maintenance, or scheduled tasks) while ImageManager is processing images.
• By default, processing starts at 12 midnight. You should monitor the nightly load to understand the processing window and add as much buffer time as possible.
• Keep in mind that ImageManager verifies images as they come in, and that ImageManager I/O can be throttled in Agent Settings > Performance.

Important! If you have any performance problems caused by running ImageManager on a machine with any of these configurations, you should install and run ImageManager on a dedicated system as the first step in resolving these issues.