System Requirements

System Requirements

Supported OS

  • Windows 11
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 8.1
  • Windows 8
  • Windows 7
  • Windows XP (offline imaging and deployment)
  • Windows Server 2022
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Windows Server 2008
  • Windows Server 2003 R2 (offline imaging and deployment)
  • Windows Server 2003 (offline imaging and deployment)

OS architecture requirements

  • If your server is installed in a system with 32Bit OS, you can deploy only 32Bit OS images from that server.
  • If your server is installed in a system with 64Bit OS, you can deploy both 32Bit and 64Bit OS images.

Ports

To perform OS imaging and deployment the following ports have to kept open in the network,

  • 8443
  • 8383
  • 69
  • 4011

To know more about the ports used in OS Deployer, click here.

Hardware requirements

To perform imaging & deployment, the target computer should have the minimum RAM size of  2 GB.

Server Parameter Requirement
OS Deployer Server Processor information Intel Core i3 (2 core/4 thread) 2.0 Ghz 3 MB cache
RAM size 4 GB
Hard disk space 5 GB*
Distribution Server Processor Information Intel Core i3 (2 core/4 thread) 2.0 Ghz 3 MB cache
RAM size 4 GB
Hard disk space 6 GB**
Network requirement Network card speed Minimum 1 GBPS Network Interface Card (NIC)
Bandwidth Minimum 1 MBPS (T1 connection)
SQL Server Processor information Intel Core i3 (2 core/4 thread) 2.0 Ghz 3 MB cache
RAM size 4 GB
Hard disk space 5 GB*
Edition Standard/Enterprise

* May increase depending on the frequency of imaging and deployment

** May increase depending on the number of image deployments performed

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