Below you’ll find some real life Configuration Manager hardware numbers.

Primary site server with local SQL

Hardware

Specifications for medium sites (below 6.000 clients)

CPU

2 Intel Pentium 4 Xeon > 3 GHz (or better)

RAM

4 GB

Disk

See below

 

RAID

No. of physical disk

Purpose

Raid 1

2, 150 GB each.

C =50GB (Operating System, SQL Application)
X= 50 GB (Config mgr. Backup Files, Pagefile)
X= 10 GB (TempDB)

Raid 1

2, 150 GB each.

X = 146 GB (SQL Logs)
Raid 10

4, 150 GB each.

X = 60 GB (SQL DB)
X = 40 GB (Config Mgr. Application)
X = 100 GB (Config Mgr. Packages)

Primary site server with remote SQL

Hardware

Specifications for medium sites (below 6.000 clients)

CPU

2 Intel Pentium 4 Xeon > 3 GHz (or better)

RAM

4 GB

Disk

See below

 

RAID

No. of physical disk

Purpose

Raid 1

2, 70 GB each.

C = 70GB (Operating System)
X = 40 GB (Config Mgr application)

Raid 1

2, 70 GB each

X = 70 GB (Pagefile, SCCM Recovery)
Raid 10

2, 300 GB each

X = 300 GB (SCCM Packages)

Secondary site server

Hardware

Specifications for medium sites (below 1.000 clients)

CPU

2 Intel Pentium 4 Xeon > 3 GHz (or better)

RAM

2 GB

Disk

See below

 

RAID

No. of physical disk

Purpose

Raid 1

2, 150 GB each.

C =50GB (Operating System)

X= 100 GB (Config Mgr. Application)

Raid 1

2, 150 GB each.

X = 150GB (Software packages)