3 ECE System Requirements

Learn about the software, hardware, and information requirements for Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) Elastic Charging Engine (ECE) 12.0.

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Software Requirements

For information about the supported and required software, see "ECE Software Compatibility" in BRM Compatibility Matrix.

Hardware Requirements

The number and configuration of the computers that you employ for your ECE installation depend on the scale and the kind of deployment you have planned according to your charging requirements. Work with your performance team to determine your sizing requirements.

For a standalone system, ECE requires:

  • 4 GB of RAM (or more)

  • 200 MB of disk space (or more)

  • 2 x86 cores (or more)

About Oracle Exadata

ECE is supported on Oracle Exadata (Extreme Flash Storage) systems. You can use an Oracle Exadata or non-Exadata database for creating the ECE schema. The Oracle database must be installed and configured with Oracle RAC. See the Oracle Exadata documentation for more information on Extreme Flash Storage server and how to create an Oracle RAC instance in Oracle Exadata.