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Install Requirements
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These requirements only apply to those who are self-hosted. Before installing Alexandria, make sure you have the registration letter that came with your program, which contains information required during the installation process. Alexandria can be installed on either a Mac or Windows operating system.
See Alexandria Requirements for supported devices and web recommendations.
Also, take a look at our Technology Services Reference for information on ports and addresses you'll need to allow.
Important
- Alexandria is a 32 bit application. 64 bit support for macOS 10.15 (Catalina) is coming soon, but do not update yet or Alexandria will not run. Please check with Customer Support before updating your server to this version of macOS.
- We recommend using a solid state drives (SSDs) for all Alexandria installations, including Controller, Centralized Catalog data stations, and Distributed Catalog data stations. Database applications are disk intensive, and solid state drives greatly enhance performance and reliability.
It's required that you always have more than 40GB of available HD space. This is in addition to space for the program and data folders. If there isn't 40GB of available HD space during nightly archives, Alexandria will shut down.
A separate drive is useful for archives, because it saves space on the SSD for more important tasks.
The Alexandria data station does not have an UI and can be run as a Service on both macOS and Windows operating systems. You must use a web browser to manage and use the server.
- Alexandria 7 requires a static IP address.
- The Alexandria Controller requires TCP/IP to communicate between hosted data stations and their clients. The Alexandria Controller and the data stations it manages can not be dynamically allocated and must share a fixed TCP/IP address.
No Support for Virtual Machines
We do not provide support to run Alexandria on a virtual machine. Alexandria is a highly sophisticated database application that should be run on a dedicated server to optimize performance. While you can run it on a virtual machine, we don't recommend it. The resource-intensive nature of a controller's workload can place a significant strain on an inefficient VM, leading to challenges we cannot troubleshoot or diagnose.
Recommendations
macOS 10.12, 10.13, 10.14 Windows 10 Windows Server 2016, 2019 x86 or x64 multi-core processor macOS 10.12, 10.13, 10.14 Windows 10 Windows Server 2016, 2019 x86 or x64 multi-core processor 1–5 collections: 8 GB + Alexandria Controller macOS 10.12, 10.13, 10.14 Windows 10 Windows Server 2016, 2019 x86 or x64 multi-core processor 1–5 collections: 8 GB +Alexandria Data Stations Operating System CPU Memory 4 GB RAM Required Available HD Storage 40 GB + Screen Resolution 1024 x 768 Alexandria Centralized Catalog Operating System CPU Memory
6–20 collections: 12 GB +
21–29 collections: 16 GB +
30+ collections: see noteRequired Available HD Storage 40 GB + Screen Resolution 1024 x 768 Network TCP/IP Operating System CPU Memory
6–20 collections: 12 GB +
21–29 collections: 16 GB +
30+ collections: see noteRequired Available HD Storage 40 GB + Screen Resolution 1024 x 768 Network TCP/IP
Note
For Controller or Centralized Catalog configurations managing more than 30 collections, please contact us for specific recommendations.
