The GlobalSCAPE Quality Assurance team tests our products with a variety of operating systems, software, and hardware.
It is possible for the WAFS/CDP Vault and Agent to function with other operating systems, software, and hardware, but is only tested with the operating systems, software, and hardware described below.
Operating Systems:
Windows Server 2012 R2 (WAFS v4.4 and later)
Windows Server 2012 (WAFS v4.1.3 or later)
Windows Server 2008 R2
*WAFS is installed as a 32-bit application on 64-bit computers
CPU: Dual- or Quad Core
Memory for the Vault: Required RAM 1GB (Recommended RAM is 3GB; up to 4GB is supported on a 64-bit system. For a table of memory limits for each Windows version, refer to Memory Limits for Windows Releases on the Microsoft Developer Network.
Memory for Agents: Required RAM is dependent on the number of files being mirrored (recommended RAM is 3GB; up to 4GB is supported on a 64-bit system.): Required RAM = 600 MB + (NumberOfFiles * 0.5 KByte per file); 1 GB RAM minimum
Hard drive space for the Vault:
Hard drive space equal to 110% of the size of the data being replicated at all Agents plus room for previous versions and deleted files.
Additional storage capacity of 50% more than the size of the data being replicated is recommend for storing previous file revisions.
A minimum of 5GB of free space is required to install the WAFS Vault component.
It is not uncommon for deployments to take advantage of surplus storage capacity of up to 300% of the replicated data size. The additional space is used to store previous versions and deleted files used by our proprietary file revision system.
Hard drive space for Agents: equal to 110% of the amount of data being mirrored or backed up. (Plan for natural dataset growth).
Additional software:
Internet Explorer 8 or later (Agents and Vault)
Microsoft .NET Framework v3.5 SP1
Supported media:
For Vault: Any storage available to the host server (NAS, network shares, mapped drives, iSCSI, SAN)
For Agents: Locally attached storages (local drive) or any storage that appears local to the operating system of the Agent computer (iSCSI, NAS configured as iSCSI, SAN).
 |
When the Vault and Agent are installed on the same computer, ensure that you provide the space requirements for both the Vault and Agent using the above requirements. There are no disk space advantages to collocating the Vault and Agent on the same computer; however, you may see performance improvements for a Vault serving fewer than 5-10 Agents by collocation. |