AX Engine Node requirements

For best AX Engine performance, ensure your hardware and software meets the minimum requirements. Satisfactory production environment performance may require greater resources than the minimum specification.

Hardware

Processor, memory, and hard disk requirements for production systems depend on the following factors:

the number of concurrent users and their usage profiles
the size of the data payload
the desired response time

Component	Minimum	Recommendation
Memory (RAM)	8 GB	16 GB or higher
Hard disk	3.5 gigabytes (GB) This is the approximate amount of disk space required to download, extract, and install the prerequisites and AX Engine Node.	10 GB or higher For use in production, high-speed disk access and throughput is recommended.
Other	Network connectivity to AX Server.

Component

Minimum

Recommendation

Memory (RAM)

8 GB

16 GB or higher

Hard disk

3.5 gigabytes (GB)

This is the approximate amount of disk space required to download, extract, and install the prerequisites and AX Engine Node.

10 GB or higher

For use in production, high-speed disk access and throughput is recommended.

Other

Network connectivity to AX Server.

Software

Software requirement	Minimum	Recommendation
Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition (64 bit) Note You must install the Windows Server 2012 R2 Update (KB2919355) as a pre-requisite to installing the .NET Framework. Apply all critical Windows updates before installing AX Server. Running Windows Server 2012 using the Server Core (no GUI) option is not supported.	Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition R2 (64 bit)	Windows Server 2016
Optional integrated programming languages
Python programming language R scripting language When installing Python, you must also configure it to run on your system. For more information, see Configuring Python for use with AX Server. Depending on the R CRAN packages you intend to use, you may need to add the R i386 32-bit binary folder to your PATH environment variable. Note You must install the requirements to use integrated Python or R functions in your analytics. If you do not intend to use these languages, you do not need to install them.	Python 3.5.x (32-bit) R 3.3.1 (32-bit)	Python 3.5.x (32-bit) R 3.2.3 or 3.2.5 (32-bit)
To use the ACL Connector for Oracle, you must install: Oracle Instant Client 11g or 12c	You do not need to install Oracle Instant Client if you do not intend to use the ACL Connector for Oracle The bitness of Oracle Instant Client must match your operating system's bitness. If the 32-bit Instant Client is installed on a 64-bit machine, the connection fails If you install the Oracle Instant Client after AX Engine Node, you must restart the Analytics Exchange Service before you can use the connector If you are using Oracle as the database server for AX Server, you must also install Instant Client on the machine that hosts the database server, see Database server	N/A

Automatically installed prerequisites

The following prerequisites are automatically installed by the AX Server setup wizard if the required software is not detected:

Oracle Java Runtime Environment 8 (JRE 8u141)
Apache TomEE 7.0.3 (Tomcat version 8.5.11)
Java Cryptography Extension for Java 8
Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 SP2
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.2
Note
If your computer already has .NET 4.6.0 or NET 4.6.1, the application uses the installed version of .NET and does not install 4.6.2.
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable (x64 and x86)
Open XML SDK 2.5

ACL data connectors

The ODBC drivers listed below are installed for use as ACL data connectors:

Driver name
ACL Connector for Active Directory	ACL Connector for Email	ACL Connector for Oracle
ACL Connector for Amazon Redshift	ACL Connector for Exchange	ACL Connector for Salesforce
ACL Connector for Analytics (ACL Analytics only)	ACL Connector for Google BigQuery	ACL Connector for ServiceNow
ACL Connector for Cassandra	ACL Connector for HBase	ACL Connector for Spark
ACL Connector for Concur	ACL Connector for Hive	ACL Connector for SQL Server
ACL Connector for Couchbase	ACL Connector for Impala	ACL Connector for Teradata
ACL Connector for Drill	ACL Connector for MongoDB	ACL Connector for Twitter
ACL Connector for DynamoDB	ACL Connector for MySQL

Prerequisites included in Windows server

The following prerequisites are included in a default Windows server installation. The versions listed are the minimum requirement and most OS installations include later versions:

Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0
Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8
Microsoft Jet 4.0

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