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Minimal hardware prerequisites for Development and Testing environments

Both for the Development and the Testing environment, RWS recommends a single-machine setup, with the Content Manager, Content Manager database and Presentation Server on the same machine.

Hardware itemRecommendation
CPU clock rate2.70 GHz
CPU coresdual core or quad core
Memory16 GB RAM
Hard disk20 GB HDD (30 GB if using a Java Web application server)
Database DBMSSQL Server (Oracle requires a separate server)
Note that the amount of RAM you require will partly depend on the number of Content Delivery microservices you run, and their separate memory requirements. Your memory requirements for Content Delivery microservices only must be at least the sum of the minimum heap sizes of all microservices you intend to use, as listed here:
Service nameInitial and minimum heap size (-Xms setting) in MBMaximum heap size (-Xmx setting) in MB
Content Service10242048
Context Engine Service256512
Contextual Image Delivery256512
Content Deployer10242048
Discovery Service256384
Experience Optimization Management Service5121024
Experience Optimization Query Service5121024
IQ Index Service5121024
Preview Service256384
Session-enabled Content Service10242048