Hardware requirements

Following are the hardware requirements to consider when specifying your VMM environment. Although for SMB, POC or demo scenarios you can have SQL installed on the VMM management server, the recommendation is to have SQL Server installed on another server. And you also won't run SQL and Library Servers on the VMM server if you want to manage more than 150 hosts.

Following are the hardware requirements for VMM management server:

Following are the hardware requirements for VMM database server:

Following are the hardware requirements for VMM library server.

The minimum and recommended requirements for a VMM library server will be determined by the quantity and size of the files that will be stored:

Following are the hardware requirements for the VMM console:

Following are the hardware requirements for the Windows Azure Pack.

Before the WAP installation, you need to consider which type of deployment and components you really need. In an express deployment, all core components are installed on the same machine. This type of deployment is recommended for demo and POC scenarios. Distributed deployment is when WAP portals and databases are running on dedicated virtual machines (up to 8, except for VMs for optional resource providers like VM Clouds or Web Sites):