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Requirements for an installation of the Kuali Financial System vary greatly due to institution size and practices. Throughput, archival strategy, logging level, and frequency of log purges are examples of specific factors that lead to variation.

Development environments will use much less in the way of resources (4 GB space, 1+ CPU, and 2-4 GB memory recommended). For development purposes, MySQL seems to be faster.

Required Software

Java 1.5
Ant: 1.6.5
If you will be running Ant from the command line, rather than through an IDE where you have already allocated the appropriate memory, set an environment variable: ANT_OPTS=-Xmx1g.

Component	Memory	CPU	Space	Configuration Recommendations	Notes
Database	2+ GB	2+	8+ GB
Oracle 10.1+				Oracle Memory Manager Settings sga_max_size: 400 MB sga_target_size: 325 MB db_cache_size: 0 shared_pool_size: 0 java_pool_size: 0 large_size: 0 init.ora statistics_level=typical	No special configuration required when using XE for development. If allocating separate temp space, we recommend you give at least 1GB.
MySQL 5.0.5+				MySQL InnoDB and MyISAM engines must be installed my.ini / my.cnf max_allowed_packet: 8M transaction-isolation: READ-COMMITTED lower_case_table_names: 1
Servlet 2.4 / JSP 2.0 Compatible Servlet Container	2+ GB	2+	40+ GB	Tomcat Memory Allocation -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:PermSize=128m -Xms768m -Xmx1g	All of our testing has been on Tomcat 5.5

Optional Software

Web Server

Load Balancer

One thing to keep in mind when setting this up is the attachments functionality. You would need a disk mounted on each server to serve as the storage location for these. Any network file system (NFS, CIFS, etc.) could be used.

Automated Testing Tool

Tested Operating Systems

Operating System	Oracle	MySQL	Tomcat
AIX
Red Hat Linux
Windows XP
Mac OS X