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Meet the system requirements

Before your proceed with the Service Portal installation, make sure your environment meets the minimum system requirements depending on your deployment mode.

Supported deployment modes

Service Portal supports two deployment modes:

  • Single instance deployment: this mode requires only one server to host all Service Portal services, including a PostgreSQL database required for Service Portal. For more information, see Install and set up a single Service Portal instance.
  • Distributed deployment: this mode consists of a load balancer (Nginx), a cluster of Service Portal application nodes, and a cluster of PostgreSQL databases. At minimum, 5 servers are needed for this deployment mode. For more information, see Deploy a distributed Service Portal cluster.

System requirements

Make sure that each Red Hat Linux host on which Service Portal will be installed meets the following minimum system requirements:

  • CPU: 4 CPU cores
  • Hard drive: 60 GB
  • RAM: 8 GB