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  • Administering Forcepoint Databases
    • Introduction

    • Overview of Forcepoint databases
    • Understanding the reporting databases
    • Microsoft SQL Server deployment options
    • Reporting database specifications and recommendations
      • Hardware specifications
      • RAM
      • Disk considerations
      • Virtualization
    • How big will my reporting database be?
    • Can I use SQL Server Express?
    • Factors that affect reporting database size
    • Other factors that affect the performance of Forcepoint reporting
    • Forcepoint reporting database FAQs

Hardware specifications

Use hardware that meets or exceeds Microsoft’s recommended (not minimum) hardware requirements for SQL Server.

Microsoft SQL Server 2019 (Forcepoint DLP 8.7.1 and later):

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/sql-server/install/hardware-and-software- requirements-for-installing-sql-server-ver15?view=sql-server-ver15

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