Hardware and software requirements 

Overview

SharePoint 2013 provides for several installation scenarios. Currently, these installations include single server with built-in database installations, single-server farm installations, and multiple-server farm installations. This article describes the hardware and software requirements for SharePoint 2013 in each of these scenarios.

Hardware and software requirements for other SharePoint 2013 capabilities

If you plan to use capabilities that are offered through SharePoint 2013 or through other integration channels, such as SQL Server or Exchange Server, you also need to meet the hardware and software requirements that are specific to that capability. The following list provides links to hardware and software requirements for some SharePoint 2013 capabilities:

• Hardware and software requirements for Project Server 2013
  
• For eDiscovery, each front-end web server must have the Exchange Web Services Managed API, version 1.2 installed. For more information, see the following articles:
  
  • Configure eDiscovery in SharePoint Server 2013
    
  • Configure Exchange for SharePoint eDiscovery Center
    
• Software requirements for business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2013
  
• Hardware requirements for search in SharePoint Server 2013:
  
  • Step 3: Which hardware requirements should I be aware of?
    
  • Hardware requirements for search topologies for Internet sites
    
• Mobile device browsers supported in SharePoint 2013
  
  

  Hardware requirements—web servers, application servers, and single server installations

  The values in the following table are minimum values for installations on a single server with a built-in database and for web and application servers that are running SharePoint 2013 in a multiple server farm installation. For information about the deployment types that are used in this table, see the SharePoint 2013: Deployment model. You can download this model from the Install and deploy SharePoint 2013 (IT pros) resource center.
  For all installation scenarios, you must have sufficient hard disk space for the base installation and sufficient space for diagnostics such as logging, debugging, creating memory dumps, and so on. For production use, you must also have additional free disk space for day-to-day operations. In addition, maintain two times as much free space as you have RAM for production environments. For more information, see Capacity management and sizing for SharePoint Server 2010. read more..