The minimum requirements for hardware, Teradata software, and virtualization software are described in the table below.
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| Datastores for database storage | Minimum: 1 datastore where the TPA is deployed on the same datastore. Maximum: 2 datastores where the TPA and Teradata Viewpoint are deployed on different datastores. For the TPA VM, all database virtual disks are created on the same datastore. |
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| Datastore formatting | VMFS 5 file system | |
| Datastore space for template deployment | Total size of all drives in each image:
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| RAID | RAID-1 LUNs recommended. | |
| Server | Dell PowerEdge R720xd/R730xd, or an HP Gen9 or similar system. Hyper-threading (HT) must be enabled. |
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| VMware ESXi | ESXi 5.5 release 2 and later | |
| VMware licensing | A full VMware vSphere 6.0 license or VMware vSphere Essentials 6.0 license for at least one physical CPU (unlimited cores per CPU) | |
| VMware vCenter | vCenter 5.5 release 2 and later | |
| VMware vSphere Client |
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| VMware vSphere vSwitches | One vSphere standard vSwitch for public network. One extra vSphere standard vSwitch for DSC network.
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