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1.2 GHz Pentium III-compatible processor (32-bit) or 1.4 GHz Pentium 4-compatible processor (64-bit)
2 GB RAM
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 (Web editions of Windows Server are not supported)
Approximately 5 GB of available hard-disk space—or more depending on data storage needs
Intel x86-compatible (32-bit) processors and Intel x64-compatible (64-bit) processors are supported. Itanium (64-bit) processors are NOT supported
Internet Explorer 7 (or later), Google Chrome 6 (or later), or Firefox 3.6 (or later) is required to access NVivo Server Manager
Internet access is required to activate your license key
2.0 GHz Pentium 4-compatible processor or faster
4 GB RAM or more
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 or later, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 or Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. Both 32-bit and 64-bit editions of these operating systems are supported. (Web editions of Windows Server are not supported).
Approximately 20 GB of available hard-disk space—or more depending on data storage needs
Intel x86-compatible (32-bit) processors or Intel x64-compatible (64-bit) processors are supported. Itanium (64-bit) processors are NOT supported
Internet Explorer 7 (or later), Google Chrome 6 (or later), or Firefox 3.6 (or later) is required to access NVivo Server Manager
Internet access is required to activate your license key
When you install NVivo Server, the following components are installed (if they are not already present):
Windows Installer 4.5
Microsoft .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1
SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition
You can install NVivo Server on a physical or virtual server device. It consists of the following software components:
SQL Server database instance—NVivo Server is installed with its own SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition database instance (QSRNVIVO9). The SQL Server database instance is created during installation.
NVivo Server metabase—the metabase is installed in the QSRNVIVO9 SQL Server instance. The NVivo Server metabase contains data used by NVivo Server to manage all NVivo Server projects.
NVivo Service—a Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service. The NVivo Service runs as a Windows Service under the server’s local system account (NT AUTHORITY\System)—this account is granted the necessary database permissions at install time.
NVivo Server Manager—the NVivo Server Manager is a browser-based application that can be used to administer the NVivo Server which runs in Internet Information Services (IIS). Under IIS, the application is installed in the default web applications pool. NVivo Server Manager uses Microsoft Silverlight 4.0—the first time you launch NVivo Server Manager from your web browser, follow the prompts to install the Microsoft Silverlight 4.0 plug-in if required.
The following are not supported on the physical or virtual server hosting NVivo Server:
Any other installation of SQL Server, or any other SQL Server database instance
Installation of any other software that uses SQL Server
SQL Server database mirroring
SQL Server failover clustering
Deployment of the service and database components of NVivo Server to separate machines
Customization of the SQL Server instance, the NVivo Server metabase, NVivo Service or NVivo Server Manager settings