Prinergy servers and workstations must meet specific hardware and software requirements to be supported with this version of Prinergy.
Read the following topics closely and ensure that your system and any connected or integrated components meet or exceed these requirements prior to upgrading. If you have any questions, contact your local Response Center.
Supported servers
Prinergy Workflow 8.1 requires Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 or Windows Server 2012 R2 on one of the following Dell platforms:
Windows 2012 R2
Generation 12/13 Premium and High-Performance Servers
| Generation 12/13 Premium Servers
| Generation 12 Performance Plus Servers
| Generation 12 Performance Servers
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| Supported as primary server, EPM+, secondary server, and render station | Supported as secondary server and render station | ||
Windows 2008 R2 x64
Generation 11/12/13 Premium Dell PE T610/R710, | Generation 11/12/13 Premium Servers
| Generation 11/12 Performance Plus Servers
| Generation 11/12/13 Performance Servers |
| Supported as primary server, EPM+, secondary server, and render station | Supported as secondary server and render station | ||
Secondary servers (also called render stations) with direct connectivity to output devices only support Windows Server 2008 R2 x64.
Prinergy Workflow 8.1 is also supported in a virtual environment under VMware VSphere (VMware ESXi) versions 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0.
Memory requirements
Prinergy primary servers and Hot Standby servers require a minimum of 12 GB RAM. Prinergy secondary servers and render stations require a minimum of 8 GB RAM.
Storage requirements
Prinergy Workflow 8.1 requires system drives with a minimum of 146 GB storage space (with at least 10 GB free space) on primary servers and system drives with a minimum of 73 GB storage space (with at least 10 GB free space) on secondary servers and render stations.
If upgrading from a version of Prinergy with Oracle 11 integrated, make sure that during the upgrade you have at least 3x the amount of disk space currently occupied by the database (J:\Oracle) available on the drive where the database is installed (default drive J:\Oracle).
We recommend using the Precheck tool that is included in the installer ahead of the upgrade. It will calculate the required space and warn you if it is insufficient.
Archive media
As of Prinergy Workflow 6.0, archiving to tape is no longer supported. You can switch to archive-to-disk, which has been available since Prinergy 5.0 or use a third party archiving solution for your jobs.
Hot Standby (EPM) servers
Prinergy Workflow 8.1 supports Vision Solutions Double-Take software 5.3 under Windows 2008 and version 7.1 under Windows 2012 R2. Double-Take upgrades are performed by a Kodak engineer during the operating system upgrade.