System requirements

Here are the overall system requirements for installing all of Oracle Endeca Information Discovery, including WebLogic Server, on a single Windows machine.

Requirement Details
Hardware Minimum hardware requirements:
  • x64 processor, minimum 1.8 GHz
  • At least 2 GB of RAM, depending on the size of the application data set
  • 80 GB hard drive, depending on the size of the application data set
Recommended hardware requirements:
  • x64 3.0+ GHz processors; we recommend Intel Xeon (including Nehalem) or AMD Opteron processors
  • 8 GB of RAM or more, depending on the size of the application data set
  • High performance network-attached storage (for example, attached via a dedicated iSCSI or fibre channel network) or high performance locally-attached RAID storage (for example, a RAID 6 or RAID 0+1 array with battery-backed write caching, operating on 72GB or 146 GB spindles at 10k or 15k RPM spindle speed)
  • Gigabit Ethernet
Note: In this guide, the term "x64" refers to any processor compatible with the AMD64/EM64T architecture. You might need to upgrade your hardware, depending on the data you are processing. All run-time code must fit entirely in RAM. Likewise, hard disk capacity must be sufficient based on the size of your data set. Please contact your Oracle representative if you need more information on sizing your hardware.
Operating system Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise running on x64 processors.

Because this is a development environment, you can also install on Windows 7. For a production environment, Windows 7 would not be supported.

For improved performance, we recommend turning off hyper-threading.

Disk space WebLogic and Oracle Endeca Server have the following disk sizes after installation:
  • Oracle WebLogic Server: 425 MB
  • Oracle Application Development Runtime: 1024 MB
  • Oracle Endeca Server: 475 MB

The total disk size of the entire installation is approximately 1.9 GB.

Each installation program uses a temporary directory into which they extract the files necessary to install the software on the target system. During the installation process, your temporary directory must contain sufficient space to accommodate these files.

As a rule of thumb, the files in the temporary directory require approximately 2.5 times the space that is ultimately required for each installation.

By default, the installation programs use the directory referenced by the TMP system variable.

Browser (for Studio)
  • Firefox ESR on Windows
  • Internet Explorer 8 (with compatibility mode disabled) on Windows
  • Internet Explorer 9 on Windows

Firefox is recommended.

Important: Running Internet Explorer 8 in compatibility mode is not supported.
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