• Minimum:
  1 GHz processor, 512 Mbytes RAM, 80 GBytes disk.



• 1000+ Users:
  2 GHz+ Intel® Core™ 2 Duo or similar processor, 2 GBytes fast RAM (DDR2/DDR), 250 GBytes SATA, SAS or SCSI disk.



• 2000+ Users:
  3 GHz+ dual or multi-processor Intel® Xeon, Core™ 2 Duo, AMD Opteron or similar processors, 4 GBytes fast RAM (DDR2/DDR), 500 GBytes SATA, SAS or SCSI disk.



• Processor:
  Intel Pentium compatible processors including VIA, AMD Athlon, Athlon 64, Opteron, Intel® Core™ 2 Duo, Xeon and Celeron processors.



• Multi-Processor:
  Symmetric Multi-Processor (SMP) support.



• RAM:
  512 MBytes minimum to 4 GBytes maximum RAM (additional RAM improves performance).



• Disk:
  A single SCSI, SATA, SAS or IDE disk (8 GBytes minimum) is required.



• Software RAID:
  Optionally two disks of the same type (but can be of different capacity) may be configured for software RAID1 (mirrored disks).



• Hardware RAID:
  Hardware (SCSI and SAS) RAID systems and controller cards are supported.



• CDROM:
  An IDE or SCSI CDROM or bootable USB CDROM drive is recommended for software installation (not required after installation).



• Network Cards (NICs):
  All common Network Interface Cards are supported including Gigabit and fiber NICs.



• Monitor and Keyboard:
  Required for software installation but not for subsequent configuration and use (headless operation).



• Operating System:
  Integral Security Hardened Operating System included.

School Guardian supports user authentication against a locally maintained user list and the following LDAP authentication servers:

• Microsoft Windows 2003 server
• Microsoft Windows 2000 server
• Microsoft Small Business Server
• Novell eDirectory
• Sun Directory
• Netscape Directory
• RedHat Directory
• Fedora Directory
• OpenLDAP

PLEASE NOTE: If you wish to confirm that the software supports a particular system/hardware component, please consult our SmoothWall Technical Support Team who will be happy to offer advice and guidance on hardware selection.