Virtual Server Requirements

Refer to Server Requirements if setting up a physical server.

Hardware

Component	Minimum	Recommended	Notes
CPU	8 cores	8+ cores
RAM	32GB (See Notes)	32GB+	32GB+ is sufficient for many sites, but more may be needed to ensure optimal performance at sites with larger archives. As a rule of thumb, have as least as much physical RAM as the size of your index.
Hark Disk	300GB	500GB
Network	100 Megabit	100+ Megabit

Keep the following requirements in mind before you install an ENPS Server on a virtual machine:

The Associated Press does not provide support for third-party software such as VMWare. You should contact the virtual machine vendor for support issues related to their software.
You are solely responsible for meeting the virtual machine's requirements for hardware, networking, wire ingestion, and integration.
There should be a minimum of 2 GB of RAM available to the host machine after the virtual machine is mounted.
Make sure that anti-virus software on the host machine does not scan virtual machine files. Just like a physical ENPS Server, an ENPS Server in a virtual machine environment should not run anti-virus software with real-time scanning. See the Anti-virus topic for more information.
Do not run an ENPS Primary server and its corresponding Buddy server as virtual ENPS Servers on the same machine simultaneously.

	Windows Server	.NET Framework	Google Chrome
Required	2022 / 2019 / 2016	4.8	Latest version