Hardware requirements

Microsoft Windows

Minimum Server Hardware Requirements

For Evaluation:

• CPU Performance of at least 8000 SAPS
• 16 GB RAM minimum

For Deployment:

• Please refer to the BI4 Sizing Companion Guide, located at www.sap.com/bisizing and also your SAP representative.
  • For more information on SAPS, see the SAP Sizing portal: http://service.sap.com/sizing (requires SAP Service Marketplace user credentials) and also SAP benchmarked vendor hardware list: http://www1.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/sd2tier.epx
  • If deploying to virtualized hardware, it is strongly recommended that the memory and CPU(s) be reserved for each virtual machine that is running the BI services.

 Minimum Client Hardware Requirements

• Dual Core CPU
• 2 GB RAM

Recommended Disk Space Requirements

• SAP BusinessObjects BI (client installer):
  • 3.5 GB for default installation with English language only installed
  • 7.5 GB for default installation with all languages installed
• SAP BusinessObjects BI (server installer):
  • 11 GB for default installation with English language only installed
  • 14 GB for default installation with all languages installed

IBM AIX

Minimum Server Hardware Requirements

For Evaluation:

• CPU Performance of at least 8000 SAPS
• 16 GB RAM minimum

For Deployment:

• Please refer to the BI4 Sizing Companion Guide, located at www.sap.com/bisizing and also your SAP representative.
  • For more information on SAPS, see the SAP Sizing portal: http://service.sap.com/sizing (requires SAP Service Marketplace user credentials) and also SAP benchmarked vendor hardware list: http://www1.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/sd2tier.epx
  • If deploying to virtualized hardware, it is strongly recommended that the memory and CPU(s) be reserved for each virtual machine that is running the BI services.

Recommended Disk Space Requirements

• SAP BusinessObjects BI (server installer):
  • 13 GB for default installation with English language only installed
  • 15 GB for default installation with all languages installed

Minimum OS Patch Requirements

• Required AIX 6.1 operating system install plus:
  • Technology Level 5
  • IBM C++ Runtime Environment Components for AIX => xIC.aix61.rte 10.1.0.3
• Required AIX 7.1 operating system install plus:
  • Technology Level 1 SP 2
  • IBM C++ Runtime Environment Components for AIX => xIC.aix61.rte 11.1.0.2
• All OS Versions:
  Higher patches beyond the specified minimum patch level may be used.

Oracle Solaris

Minimum Server Hardware Requirements

For Evaluation:

• CPU Performance of at least 8000 SAPS
• 16 GB RAM minimum

For Deployment:

• Please refer to the BI4 Sizing Companion Guide, located at www.sap.com/bisizing and also your SAP representative.
  • For more information on SAPS, see the SAP Sizing portal: http://service.sap.com/sizing (requires SAP Service Marketplace user credentials) and also SAP benchmarked vendor hardware list: http://www1.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/sd2tier.epx
  • If deploying to virtualized hardware, it is strongly recommended that the memory and CPU(s) be reserved for each virtual machine that is running the BI services.

Recommended Disk Space Requirements

• SAP BusinessObjects BI (server installer):
  • 13 GB for default installation with English language only installed
  • 15 GB for default installation with all languages installed

Minimum OS Patch Requirements

For Solaris 10

• Required Solaris 10 operating system install (Solaris 10 8/2007 Release)
• No additional components required

For Solaris 11

• Required Solaris 11 operating system install (Solaris 11 11/2011 Release)
• Please refer to the BI platform install guide for the list of packages for Solaris 11

Linux

Minimum Server Hardware Requirements

For Evaluation:

• CPU Performance of at least 8000 SAPS
• For single user, 16 GB RAM minimum

For Deployment:

• Please refer to the BI4 Sizing Companion Guide, located at www.sap.com/bisizing and also your SAP representative.
  • For more information on SAPS, see the SAP Sizing portal: http://service.sap.com/sizing (requires SAP Service Marketplace user credentials) and also SAP benchmarked vendor hardware list: http://www1.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/sd2tier.epx
  • If deploying to virtualized hardware, it is strongly recommended that the memory and CPU(s) be reserved for each virtual machine that is running the BI services.

Recommended Disk Space Requirements

• SAP BusinessObjects BI (server installer):
  • 14 GB for default installation with English language only installed
  • 16 GB for default installation with all languages installed

Minimum OS Patch Requirements

Minimum Patch Level for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11

• Required SLES 11 RTM install
• No additional components required

Minimum Patch Level for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

• Required Red Hat 5 operating system install
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 3

Minimum Patch Level for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

• Required Red Hat 6 operating system install
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 2
• Required components for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6:
  • glibc-2.12-1.7-el6.i686
  • libstdc++-4.4.4-13.el6.i686

Microsoft Windows

• 2.0 GHz Pentium 4-class processor
• 8 GB RAM
• 6 GB hard disk space for SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise for complete installation (including 2.7 GB in the temp directory, used during installation only) and .3 GB for each language pack
• 6.75 GB hard drive for SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise patch installation
• 1 GB for Client Tools

IBM AIX

• AIX 5.3, AIX 6.1, AIX 7.1
• 8 GB RAM
• 6.6 GB hard drive for SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise for complete installation and .3 GB for each language pack

Oracle Solaris

• SPARC v8plus
• 8 GB RAM
• 5.3 GB hard drive for SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise and .3 GB for each language pack

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

• 2.0 GHz Pentium 4-class processor
• 8 GB RAM
• 5.5 GB for SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise installation and .4 GB for each language pack