System Requirements; Required Hardware; Supported Operating Systems - VMware ACE Management Server Administrator's Manual

ACE Management Server Administrator's Manual
ACE Management Server is easy to install and configure. Client traffic can be proxied by easily available
products. The server uses easily available software components:
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Apache Web server 2.0
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The default SQLite database store
The server setup uses industry‐standard protocols:
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HTTPS and LDAP
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XML‐RPC for message encapsulation
ACE Management Server offers extensibility and availability:
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You can create and use more than one ACE Management Server. When you use more than one server, you
can set the servers up so that they share the same database for load balancing or increased fault tolerance.
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A Windows ACE Management Server can be on the same system as Workstation.
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You can designate a single ACE Management Server name, such as
https://ace.policyserver.company.com, and use DNS lookup to translate the host name to an
address. The address is cached if a DNS server is not available. Additionally, you can use different ACE
Management Server instances if users travel between offices in different geographic locations.
N Your server name must be either the machine name in English or the IP address. International
OTE
characters are not supported.

System Requirements

The following sections describe the ACE Management Server system requirements.

Required Hardware

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A minimum of an 800MHz‐compatible x86 and x86‐64 architecture processor
Compatible processors include:
Celeron, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, Pentium M (including computers with Centrino mobile
technology), Xeon (including Prestonia), AMD, Athlon, Athlon MP, Athlon XP, Duron, Opteron, AMD64
Opteron, and Athlon 64
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Experimental support for Intel IA‐32e CPU
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40MB of free space is required for basic installation. VMware recommends at least 10GB of free disk space.
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An 8‐bit display adapter is required.
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For local area networking, any Ethernet controller that the operating system supports is sufficient.

Supported Operating Systems

Following are the supported operating systems for ACE Management Server:
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Windows Server 2003 Web Edition SP1 and SP2, Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition SP1 and SP2,
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP1 and SP2 (includes 64‐bit and R2 editions)
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Windows XP Professional (includes 64‐bit editions)
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Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4 and Windows 2000 Advanced Server Service Pack 4
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 4.0 with Update 4.
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 Service Pack 3
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