SMC hardware requirements

You can install the SMC on standard hardware.

Component Requirement
CPU Intel® Core™ family processor or higher recommended, or equivalent on a non-Intel platform
Disk space
  • Management Server: 6 GB
  • Log Server: 50 GB
Memory
  • Management Server, Log Server, Web Portal Server: 16 GB RAM
  • If all SMC servers are on the same computer: 32 GB RAM
  • If you use the SMC Web Access feature: an additional 2 GB RAM per administrator session
  • Management Client: 2 GB RAM

The SMC server requirements are the minimum requirements. The Management Server and Log Server in particular benefit from having more than the minimum amount of RAM.

On high-end appliances that have a lot of RAM, the SMC might not provision the maximum amount of RAM for use by the SMC servers. For information about how to manually modify the provisioning, see Knowledge Base article 33316.
Management Client peripherals
  • A mouse or pointing device
  • SVGA (1280x768) display or higher
CAUTION:
To protect the privacy of your data, we recommend using dedicated hardware for all NGFW, SMC, and SMC Appliance installations. For cloud-based virtualization platforms, use an instance type that runs on dedicated hardware. For on-premises virtualization platforms, install the NGFW Engines, SMC components, or SMC Appliance on a hypervisor that does not host any other virtual machines. For third-party hardware, do not install any other software on the computer where you install the NGFW Engines or SMC components.