Hardware Requirements
This table outlines hardware and software requirements for the SUSE Manager Server and Proxy, on x86_64 and IBM Power PC architecture.
For IBM Z hardware requirements, see installation:install-ibmz.adoc.
For SUSE Manager for Retail hardware requirements, see retail:retail-requirements.adoc.
Server Hardware Requirements
Hardware | Details | Recommendation |
---|---|---|
CPU |
- |
Minimum 4 dedicated 64-bit CPU cores |
RAM |
Test Server |
Minimum 8 GB |
Base Installation |
Minimum 16 GB |
|
Production Server |
Minimum 32 GB |
|
Disk Space |
|
Minimum 24 GB |
|
Minimum 50 GB |
|
|
Minimum 50 GB per SUSE product and 360 GB per Red Hat product |
|
|
Minimum 10 GB. Add 100 MB per SUSE product, 1 GB per Red Hat or other product. Double the space if the server is an ISS Master. |
|
Swap space |
3 GB |
For more information about inter-server synchronization (ISS), see administration:iss.adoc.
Hardware | Details | Recommendation |
---|---|---|
CPU |
Minimum 4 dedicated cores |
|
RAM |
Test Server |
Minimum 8 GB |
Base Installation |
Minimum 16 GB |
|
Production Server |
Minimum 32 GB |
|
Disk Space |
|
Minimum 100 GB |
|
Minimum 50 GB |
|
|
Minimum 50 GB per SUSE product and 360 GB per Red Hat product |
|
|
Minimum 10 GB. Add 100 MB per SUSE product, 1 GB per Red Hat or other product. Double the space if the server is an ISS Master. |
|
Swap space |
3 GB |
For more information about inter-server synchronization (ISS), see administration:iss.adoc.
Proxy Hardware Requirements
Hardware | Details | Recommendation |
---|---|---|
CPU |
Minimum 2 dedicated 64-bit CPU cores |
|
RAM |
Test Server |
Minimum 2 GB |
Production Server |
Minimum 8 GB |
|
Disk Space |
|
Minimum 24 GB |
|
Minimum 100 GB |
|
|
Minimum 100 GB |
SUSE Manager Server stores packages in the /var/spacewalk/
directory.
Repository synchronization fails if this directory runs out of disk space.
You can estimate how much space the /var/spacewalk/
directory requires based on the clients and repositories you plan to mirror.
SUSE Manager Proxy caches packages in the /var/cache/
directory.
If there is not enough space available in /var/cache/
, the proxy will remove old, unused packages and replace them with newer packages.
As a result of this behavior:
-
The larger
/var/cache/
directory is on the SUSE Manager Proxy, the less traffic there will be between it and the SUSE Manager Server. -
By making the
/var/cache/
directory on the SUSE Manager Proxy the same size as/var/spacewalk/
in the SUSE Manager Server, you avoid a large amount of traffic after the first synchronization. -
The
/var/cache/
directory can be small on the SUSE Manager Server compared to SUSE Manager Proxy. See estimation hints in the Server Hardware Requirements section.