ALM 11.0 Platform System Requirements

This section includes recommended and supported environments for ALM Platform. It also describes system configurations for installing ALM Platform for Quality Center Starter Edition.

• • IPv6 support: ALM 11.00 will work on IPv6 enabled systems. However, ALM is still developed within an IPv4 environment. This means that in ALM 11.00:
  • • Data communication is possible using both IPv6 and IPv4 transport.
    • Management communication can be over IPv4 transport (or optionally IPv6).
    • The presence of the IPv4 network stack is required. 
  • Unix support:
  • • AIX is not supported in ALM 11.00.
    • In the next release of HP ALM, we plan to remove support of Unix- based server environments (AIX, Solaris, HP-UX).
  • 64 Bit support:
  • • If you use a WebLogic or WebSphere application server on a 64-bit operating system, ensure that JVM is running in 64-bit mode. For instructions on how to install and configure WebLogic and WebSphere in 64-bit mode, refer to the vendor's documentation.

    It is also recommended to increase permsize and heapsize. For more information, refer to Performance Tuning Best Practices for ALM at HP Software Product Manuals .

    • In the next release of HP ALM, we plan to move to 64 bit configuration exclusively for ALM Platform.

Recommended ALM Platform Configurations

The following table includes recommended configurations for each operating system.

Operating System	Application Server	Database Server	Web Server
Windows Server 2008 (SP2) 64 bit	JBoss 5.1	Microsoft SQL 2008 (SP1)	JBoss 5.1
Sun Solaris 10 64 bit	WebLogic 10.3	Oracle 10.2.0.4	Apache 2.2
Linux Red Hat 5.4 64 bit	WebLogic 10.3	Oracle 10.2.0.4	Apache 2.2
HP-UX 11i v3 64 bit	JBoss 5.1	Oracle 10.2.0.4	JBoss 5.1

Supported ALM Platform Configurations

The following applications are supported for installing ALM Platform on a server machine. You may use any combination of these applications. To ensure best performance and quick support resolutions, we recommend using the recommended environments, described in the above section Recommended ALM Platform Configurations.

Operating Systems	Windows Server 2008 (SP2) 64 bit Windows Server 2003 (SP2) 64 bit or 32 bit Sun Solaris 10 64 bit Linux Red Hat 5.4 Linux Suse 10 64 bit HP-UX 11i v3 64 bit Notes: For large production deployments, it is recommended that ALM be deployed on 64 bit systems. Localized editions of ALM are supported only on Windows operating systems.
Application Servers	JBoss 5.1 WebLogic 10.3.x WebSphere 7.0.0.9
Database Servers	Oracle 11.2.0.1 or 10.2.0.4 Microsoft SQL 2008 (SP1) or 2005 (SP3)
Web Servers	JBoss 5.1 Apache 2.2 IIS 7 or 6 WebLogic 10.3.x IHS Server

ALM Platform Configurations for Quality Center Starter Edition

This section describes the system requirements for installing ALM Platform for Quality Center Starter Edition.

Operating System	Windows XP (SP3) Windows Server 2008 (SP2) 32 bit
Database Server	Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Note: Installed during the installation process. If SQL Server is already installed on the server machine, you can instruct ALM to use it, by providing the administrator name and password.
Application and Web Server	JBoss Note: Installed during the installation process.

ALM Client System Requirements

This section describes the client system requirements for installing ALM on client machines.

Operating System	Windows 7 32 bit (Recommended) Windows Vista (SP1) 32 bit Windows XP (SP3) 32 bit Notes: If you are integrating ALM with other HP testing tools, you must modify the DCOM permissions on your client machine. For more information, see HP Software Self-solve knowledge base article KM118706. You can work with the ALM client using a remote desktop.
Browser	Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or 8 Note: For customers who have restrictions on plugins in their browsers, such as ActiveX, ALM can be loaded in the HP ALM Explorer Add-in. For more information on downloading and installing the add-in, refer to the HP Application Lifecycle Management Installation Guide.
Prerequisites	Visual C++ 2005 SP1 ATL Security Update Redistributable Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (SP1) Microsoft Office 2007 (SP2)