The hardware requirements for deployment of the three server roles for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 used in this walkthrough are shown in the following tables.

Table 1. Hardware Requirements for Standard Edition and Communicator Web Access

Hardware component

Minimum requirement

CPU

Dual Processor, quad-core 2.0 GHz+

4-way processor, dual core 2.0 GHz+

Memory

8 GB

Disk

2 x 72 GB, 15k or 10k RPM, RAID 0 or equivalent

Network

2 x 1 Gbps network adapter

Table 2. Hardware Requirements for Edge Server

Hardware component

Minimum requirement

CPU

Dual Processor, quad-core 2.66 GHz+

4-way processor, dual core 2.66 GHz+

Memory

8 GB

Disk

2 x 72 GB, 15k RPM, RAID 0 or equivalent

Network

2 x 1 Gbps network adapter

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