Hardware Requirements

The following table shows the minimum hardware requirements for a computer running Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server. In a production environment, the volume of traffic may dictate greater hardware requirements for your servers.

Component	Minimum requirement
Computer and processor	A computer with an Intel Pentium-compatible CPU that is: 1 GHz or higher for single processors 900 MHz or higher for dual processors 700 MHz or higher for quad processors Hyper-threading and multi-core processors are supported. AppFabric is supported on 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) operating systems. The 64-bit versions of AppFabric require a 64-bit operating system running on an x64-based system. Computers based on CPUs that are compatible with the AMD64 (x86-64) and Extended Memory 64-bit Technology (EM64T) processor architecture are considered x64-based systems. AppFabric provides limited support for WOW mode.
Memory	2 GB of RAM
Hard disk	Minimum hard-disk space: 2 GB of available hard disk space for AppFabric features, plus space for databases. The hard disk must be NTFS formatted.

  2012-09-12