Data warehouse requirements

The data warehouse for IBM® Rational® Insight contains the physical storage areas for configuration information, normalized data, and product data.

The Rational Insight data warehouse can run in other environments but for optimum performance, consider the following environments:

Item Requirements and guidelines
Hardware
  • Processor

    Minimum: Pentium® 4 2Ghz ; Optimum: Dual Core 2+Ghz

  • Memory

    Minimum: 3 GB; Optimum: 4 GB or more

  • Free hard disk space

    Minimum: 13 GB; Optimum: 80 GB

    The requirements for free hard disk space depend on the anticipated size of the data warehouse.

  • Display monitor with at least 1024 x 768 color resolution using 256 colors
  • Microsoft® mouse or compatible pointing device
Platforms
  • Microsoft Windows® Server 2003 Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 2
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 5 GA with Update 1
Database servers
  • IBM DB2® Workgroup Server Edition 9.5
  • IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition 9.1 with fix pack 1, 2
  • IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition 9.5
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with Service Pack 2
  • Oracle Database 10g release 2
  • Oracle Database 11g release 1
Network
  • 10/100M Ethernet card with IPv4 protocol. Optionally, IPv6 protocol
  • Network connection to connect to a remote report server or ETL system

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