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INFO-1465: PlanetPress Suite System Requirements

Description

What are the PlanetPress Suite System requirements?

Contents

PlanetPress Suite 6

Supported Operating Systems:

  • Windows 2000 SP4
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Server 2003

Minimum Hardware Requirements
The same as those required by the Operating System under which PlanetPress Suite is running. That means something similar to the following:

  • IntelĀ® PentiumĀ® IV or better, or equivalent
  • 512 MB of RAM
  • 5 GB of available hard-disk space
  • 1024x768, 32-bit color graphics card

Recommended Hardware Requirements
The same as those recommended by the Operating System under which PlanetPress Suite is running. That means something similar to the following:

  • Dual Core CPU or better
  • 4 GB of RAM
  • 10 GB of available hard-disk space on SATA or SCSI drive
  • 1920x1080, 32-bit color graphics card

PlanetPress Suite 7

Supported Operating Systems:

  • Windows 2000 SP4 (***Except for PlanetPress Capture ICR feature)
  • Windows XP / Windows Server 2003
  • Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008
  • Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Windows 8.1 / Windows Server 2012 R2 (PlanetPress Suite 7.6 and higher only)

Due to complex technical reasons, Windows 8.0 and Windows Server 2012 / 2012 R1 are not supported. You must upgrade to Windows 8.1 or 2012 R2.

Minimum Hardware Requirements

  • Pentium 4 Class CPU
  • 1 GB RAM
  • 5 GB Free Hard Drive storage space
  • 1024x768 16bit Color Graphics Adaptor
  • Windows 2000 SP4

Recommended Hardware Requirements

  • Dual/Quad Core Pentium Class CPU
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 20 GB Free Hard Drive storage space
  • 1600x1200 32bit Color Graphics Adaptor
  • Dual Monitors
  • Windows 7 / Server 2008

These requirements shouldn't be taken at face value on all occasions. In many cases, the Minimum Requirements are more than enough, while in others, the Recommended Requirements will barely be able to keep up with a demanding implementation.

Supported Virtual Environments (PlanetPress Suite 7.5.1 and higher)

  • VMWare, including VMotion, VSphere, VMView.
  • Hyper-V.

Important note on virtual environments:

Starting with version 7.5.1, PlanetPress Suite is able to detect a number of virtual environments in addition to the ones listed above. To check whether your own virtual environment is properly detected, just launch PlanetPress Design and look at the main window's caption bar. If it states PlanetPress Design for your_virtual_environment, it means the virtual environment was successfully detected, which in turn means that PlanetPress Suite should not run into de-activation issues caused by rebooting the server or moving the virtual image to another server. Note, however, that successful detection of a virtual environment not listed above does not mean it is officially supported. It simply means that if the virtualization server does a good job of virtualizing (!), then there's no reason the application should not behave the same as when running on a physical server, but that Objectif Lune has not yet been able to certify the application runs properly under that specific environment.

In addition to the list above, the following environments should be detected properly (but are not yet officially supported): Virtual-PC, VirtualBox, Parallels, KVM, Xen, Bochs-based and Wine.