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2.2. Red Hat Satellite Server Requirements
This section specifies a Red Hat Satellite server's hardware considerations and requirements for installation.
Depending on the desired use case, a Red Hat Satellite environment might require multiple machines:
- Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Database - 1 machine
- Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Database and Enhanced Reporting - 2 machines
- Red Hat Satellite with Managed/External Database - 2 machines
- Red Hat Satellite with Managed/External Database and Enhanced Reporting - 3 machines
2.2.1. x86_64 Hardware Requirements
The following list shows the required and recommended hardware configurations on the x86_64 platform for a Red Hat Satellite server:
CPU
- Required: Intel dual-core processor, 2.4GHz, 512K cache or equivalent
- Recommended: Intel quad-core processor, 2.4GHz dual processor, 512K cache or equivalent
Memory
- Required: 4 GB of memory
- Recommended: 8 GB of memory
Storage
- 5 GB storage for base installation
- A minimum of 40 GB storage per software channel (including
Baseand child channels), in/var/satellite/, configurable at install - A minimum of 10 GB storage for cache files stored within
/var/cache/rhn. See Section 2.4.4, “Caching” for more information. - Strongly Recommended: A SCSI drive connected to a level 5 RAID
Database
- See Section 2.3.1, “Database Sizing Requirements” for standard database requirements.
- Embedded Database: A minimum of 12 GB storage for the database repository in the
/var/lib/pgsql/partition. - Managed Database: See Section 2.3.2, “Managed Database Requirements”.
- External Database: See Section 2.3.3, “External Database Requirements”.
Important
Red Hat Satellite 5.6 now stores Embedded Database files within
/var/lib/pgsql/ instead of /rhnsat/. Take in consideration this change of disk location for Embedded Database files for previous Satellite deployments. Ensure to allocate sufficient disk space for the /var/lib/pgsql/ directory.
Backup
- A separate partition (or better, a separate set of physical disks) for storing backups, which can be any directory specifiable at backup time
- An external SAN for more reliable backups
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