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.
Processor, memory, and hard disk requirements for production systems depend on the following factors:
| Component | Minimum | Recommendation |
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Memory (RAM) |
4 gigabytes (GB) |
8 GB |
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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 more For use in production, high-speed disk access and throughput is recommended. |
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Other |
Network connectivity to AX Server. |
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| Software requirement | Minimum | Recommendation |
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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 2012 R2 |
| Optional integrated programming languages | ||
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. |
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The following prerequisites are automatically installed by the AX Server setup wizard if the required software is not detected:
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.
The ODBC drivers listed below are installed for use as ACL data connectors:
| Driver name | File name | Version |
|---|---|---|
| ACL Connector for Amazon Redshift | AmazonRedshiftODBC_sb64.dll | 1.1.6.1009 |
| ACL Connector for Cassandra | CassandraODBC_sb64.dll | 2.4.1.1001 |
| ACL Connector for Couchbase | CouchbaseODBC_sb64.dll | 1.1.0.1000 |
| ACL Connector for Drill | DrillODBC_sb64.dll | 1.2.4.1004 |
| ACL Connector for DynamoDB | DynamoDBODBC_sb64.dll | 1.0.1.1000 |
| ACL Connector for Google BigQuery | GoogleBigQueryODBC_sb64.dll | 2.0.2.1005 |
| ACL Connector for HBase | HBaseODBC_sb64.dll | 1.1.0.1000 |
| ACL Connector for Hive | HiveODBC_sb64.dll | 2.1.5.1006 |
| ACL Connector for Impala | ImpalaODBC_sb64.dll | 1.2.5.1005 |
| ACL Connector for MongoDB | MongoDBODBC_sb64.dll | 2.0.2.1003 |
| ACL Connector for Oracle | OracleODBC_sb64.dll | 1.1.0.1014 |
| ACL Connector for Salesforce | SFODBC_sb64.dll | 1.2.5.1017 |
| ACL Connector for Spark | SparkODBC_sb64.dll | 1.1.5.1005 |
| ACL Connector for SQL Server | SQLServerODBC_sb64.dll | 1.3.6.1022 |
| ACL Connector for Teradata | tdataodbc_sb64.dll | 1.0.0.1003 |
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Note The 32-bit versions of the drivers have 32 instead of 64 in the file name. |
The following prerequisites are required and are included in a default Windows server installation: