System Requirements for Lexis Visualfiles

Minimum Hardware Requirements

Lexis Visualfiles v2 allows a SQL database to act as its data repository.

Lexis Visualfiles recommend obtaining specifications for SQL database servers and the edition of SQL to suit their particular requirements from their own SQL suppliers, due consideration should also be given to how many SQL Databases are running on the Live Database server.

If Auditing and/or Data Warehousing is to be utilised within the Lexis Visualfiles application then the server should contain a minimum of 2Gb RAM.

Lexis Visualfiles currently supports connection to SQL 2000 and 2005 only.

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Browser Implementations [expand]

Browser Implementation

Lexis Visualfiles XML Web Server
(Wiwn 2000/2003)

Minimum

Recommended

Memory Requirements

256mb base
2mb per user

256mb base
2mb per user

Integrates with your research services

Access to LexisNexis and other web-based research products that help you zero in on up-to-date critical information.

Allows easy tracking of research time and faster billing of related work.

Users per processor

200

200

IIS Version

5

5

Internet Explorer Version

5

5

Service Pack Level

SP3

Current

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PC Specification [expand]

PC Specification
	PC Specification	Recommended

Processor	P4 2Ghz
Memory	1Gb
Disk	8gb
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Lexis Visualfiles Browser Application Users [expand]

Lexis Visualfiles Browser Application Users
		Recommended

Internet Explorer	IE6 SP1 WITH XML Parser
Word	Word 2003
Email Link	Outlook 2003
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Thin Client Servers [expand]

Thin Client Servers

We have detailed our standard requirements for Thin Client Servers below.

Please note that Metaframe from Citrix is not mandatory - Lexis Visualfiles is supported on Windows Terminal Services. Microsoft are continually improving Terminal Services so we would advise users to decide if the additional features and functionality provided by Citrix would be of benefit to them.

Please note that with Metaframe 1.8 there is an issue with focus when creating documents via the direct Word link - users will need to manually return to Word when producing documents.

RAID 5 should not be implemented on Metaframe/Presentation Servers running Lexis Visualfiles as the creation and updating of the users temporary Progress files impacts dramatically on performance.

Metaframe (TSE)

Minimum

Recommended

Memory Requirements	128mb base 32mb per user	256mb base 32mb per user
Disk Requirements (scsi)	4gb free disk space	36gb system disk 36gb app disk
Users per processor	15	15
Users per hyper threaded processor	15-25	15-25
Service Pack Level
Terminal Server	SP4	Current
Metaframe 1.8	SP3	Current + hot fixes

Metaframe/Presentation 3
(Win 2000/2003)

Minimum

Recommended

Memory Requirements	256mb base 32mb per user	256mb base 32mb per user
	Minimum 2gb if running on Windows 2000 server
Disk Requirements (scsi)	4gb free disk space	36gb disk
Users per processor	15	15
Users per hyper threaded processor	15-25	15-25
Service Pack Level
Win 2000	SP3	Current
Metaframe 1.8	SP3	Current + hot fixes
Metaframe XP		Current + hot fixes
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Lexis Visualfiles Browser [expand]

Lexis Visualfiles Browser
As with Lexis Visualfiles the following figures are to be used as very approximate guidelines and are subject to continual review following continued testing/validation by Lexis Visualfiles.

Minimum

Recommended

Non Thin Client

33Kbs per user

Note: In addition to the bandwidths we recommend a maximum latency of 10ms

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