Symantec Encryption Management Server is a customized Linux OS installation and cannot be installed on a Windows server. Every Symantec Encryption Management Server requires a dedicated system that meets the system requirements listed below. The installation process deletes all data on the system and reconfigures it as a Symantec Encryption Management Server.

Symantec Encryption Management Server Certified Hardware List - Valid 11/05/12 through 11/05/13 

You must obtain the latest version of this list for hardware purchasing decisions after 11/05/13.

The following systems are certified as the hardware for Symantec Encryption Management Server:

Dell PowerEdge R310 - Intel XEON E3430 @ 2.4 GHz - 12 GB RAM Two 500 GB 7200 RPM SATA
Broadcom BCM5716 network controller

Small/medium environment production unit

Dell PowerEdge R710 - Two Quad Core Intel XEON E5530 @ 2.4 GHz – 16 GB RAM Two 146 GB 15K RPM SAS - SAS 6/ir RAID Broadcom BCM5709 network controller

Medium/large environment production unit, cluster member

IBM BladeCenter HS22 - Two Intel XEON E5607 @ 2.4 GHz - 16 GB RAM Two 300 GB 10K 6 Gbps SAS - ServeRAID MR10ie RAID Intel 10-Gigabit 82599EB chipset

network controller Medium/large environment production unit, cluster member

IBM System x3250 M4 - Intel XEON E3-1230 @ 3.3 GHz - 16 GB RAM Two 300 GB 10K 6Gbps SAS 2.5" – ServeRAID H1110 RAID Broadcom NetXtreme i Quad Port

GbE with BCM5709 chipset network controller Medium/large environment production unit, cluster member

IBM System x3650 M3 - Two Quad Core Intel XEON E5630 @ 2.53 GHz - 16 GB RAM Four 300 GB SAS 10K RPM - IBM ServeRAID-M5014 RAID Broadcom NetXtreme II

BCM5709 network controller Medium/large environment production unit, cluster member

HP Proliant DL120 G7 - Intel XEON E3-1230 @ 3.2 GHz - 16 GB RAM Two 250 GB 7200 RPM SATA - Smart Array B110i RAID Intel 82574L network controller

Small/medium environment production unit

HP Proliant DL380 G7 - Two Intel XEON x5650 @ 2.67 GHz - 12 GB RAM Two 146 GB 15K RPM SAS - HP Smart Array P410i RAID Broadcom BCM5709 network

controller Medium/large environment production unit, cluster member

VMWare vSphere 5 - Supported platform, non-hardware. Sufficient processing power equivalent to a 3 GHz Intel Xeon must be dedicated to the Symantec

Encryption Management Server virtual machine. VMware Tools must be installed and configured in the Symantec Encryption Management Server operating

system. Disk space requirements:

• Small/medium environment - 50 GB minimum allocated to the VMware instance; 4 GB RAM dedicated to the VMware instance.
• Medium/large environment - 100 GB minimum allocated to the VMware instance; 8 GB RAM dedicated to the VMware instance.

VMWare vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 5 with VMotion Support - Supported platform, non-hardware

VMware HA Configuration: Host Monitoring - Enabled; VM Monitoring - Disabled; Application Monitoring - Disabled

VMware DRS Configuration: Migration Automation Level - Fully automated; Power Management Automation Level - Off; Migration Threshold - Apply all recommendations.

Although a broad array of other hardware may work well with Symantec Encryption Management Server, Symantec Encryption Management Server has been tested with, and is compatible with, the systems in this list.

Note: Symantec Encryption Management Server supports additional memory beyond the minimum requirement but not exceeding 16 gigabytes.
 

To qualify as Symantec Encryption Management Server Certified Hardware, the server must be one of the versions listed and all components must be configured as specified. For Support purposes, if you change the sizes of hard disks in the same type of drive (for example, 36 GB SCSI to 73 GB SCSI), increasing memory configurations and processor speeds in the same type and family qualifies as the same system.