Rockwell Automation 1757-SWKIT4000 ProcessLogix R400.0 Installation and Upgrade Guide - Manual (Page 253)

1 Publication 1757-IN040B-EN-P - March 2002
Chapter
11
Performance and Capacity Specifications
PC Platform Requirements The performance of the PC Platform varies greatly based on the
system configuration. All information should be considered before
ordering or configuring a system. Customers who are upgrading
should consider upgrades to match the specifications outlined in this
document.
Prior releases of ProcessLogix did not require server grade hardware
or operating system. The client (Station, Control Builder, etc.)
applications could be run on the Server with adequate performance.
ProcessLogix R400.0 requires that you use a server grade hardware
platform (Dell PowerEdge) and server grade operating system
(Windows 2000 Server).
Server grade hardware is intended to serve data to clients over a
network and is typically provided with lower performing video cards
and without sound cards. The Windows 2000 Server operating system
provides lower foreground performance than a desktop oriented
operating system like Windows 2000 Professional.
The hardware and operating facts combined with Rockwell’s tuning of
the operating system to provide optimum performance for the SQL
Server 7 and ProcessLogix Server combination provides an extremely
good platform for the ProcessLogix Server.
For ProcessLogix Clients, Rockwell Automation advises using
Windows 2000 Professional on Windows NT 4.0 operating Systems.
Rockwell Automation recommends not using a ProcessLogix Server as
an operator station.
ATTENTION
!
This chapter contains the most current platform
requirements from the performance and capacity
specifications for R400.0. The information in this
document takes precedence over that of Knowledge
Builder or any other ProcessLogix document.