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LISTSERV Hardware Requirements

This page outlines some of the most important hardware, software and networking requirements for running LISTSERV. More details and operating system-specific information can be found in the LISTSERV installation guides. Note that these configurations are simply examples to ensure good performance, not minimum requirements.

Requirements

A computer with a fixed connection to the Internet
A static IP address assigned to the computer running LISTSERV
A Fully Qualified Domain Name for the computer running LISTSERV (DNS A Record)
Web server software on the computer running LISTSERV (For example, IIS or Apache)
An SMTP-compliant mail server through which to send outgoing mail

Example Configurations

LISTSERV runs on a wide variety of hardware options. The following configurations are examples to ensure good performance, not minimum requirements. Processors and hardware can be adjusted up or down according to individual needs and requirements.

Virtual Machine Configuration Example
VM Size:	Standard D2as v4 (2 vcpus, 8 GiB memory)
Processor Currently Associated with the D2as v4 VM Size:	AMD EPYC 7452 32-Core Processor, 2346 Mhz, 1 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
OS Disk (C):	Standard SSD LRS (locally redundant storage) 127 GiB
Data Disk (E):	Premium SSD LRS (locally redundant storage) 512GiB

Small On-Premises Configuration Example
CPU:	Intel Xeon E5620 processor (4 cores, 2.4GHz) or similar
RAM:	4-8 GB
Disk:	RAID controller with 256MB RAID 1+0 or RAID 1 array of drives

Large On-Premises Configuration Example
CPU:	Intel Xeon X5690 processor (6 cores, 3.46GHz) or similar
RAM:	16 GB
Disk:	RAID controller with 256-512MB of flash-backed cache RAID 1+0 array of 15k RPM drives