The hardware and software requirements for installing WebSphere Portal 6.0 in a windows environment are outlined below.

Hardware Requirements

• Processor:
  • Minimum requirement – Pentium processor with 800 Mhz or above.
  • Production Environment – Pentium 4 processor with 1.4 Ghz or above.

• Memory (RAM)
  • Minimum Requirement - 2 GB
  • Production Environment - 4 GB

• Disk Space - Websphere Portal and Cloudscape together requires 2.4 GB. An additional 750 MB has to be available for Temp Directory.
• File System - NTFS is recommended. Ensure enough disk space is available if using FAT32 file system.
• Network Adapter: network adapter such as Ethernet ot Token ring is required.

Software Requirement

• Operating System
  • Windows™ 2000 Server with Service Pack 4 or Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack 4
  • Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1a or Service Pack 2 (for development and test purposes only)
  • Windows 2003 Standard Edition with Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1
• Database - IBM Cloudscape version 5.1(Comes along with WebSphere Application Server).
• Web Browsers
  • Internet Explorer V6.0 Service Pack 1 (Service Pack 2 for Microsoft™ Windows XP)
  • Firefox V1.5 or above
  • Mozilla V1.7
  • Netscape Communicator V8.1
  • Apple Safari 2.0 (limited support)

Note:
1. Web browser support varies portlet.

2. If WebSphere Portal is installed on IPv6, then all browsers that access it must also have IPv6.

3. Due to incompatibilities of CSS and JavaScript implementations in Netscape, there are inconsistencies when Netscape is used with Document Manager.

• Software for Portlet development
  • IBM Rational^® Application Developer Version 7.0
  • WebSphere Portal Application Integrator Development Tool 5.1
  • IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory 6.0
  • Java 2 SDK – IBM (Windows 32 - cn131w-20020710)
• Application server - WebSphere Application Server V6.0.2, WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V6.0.2, and WebSphere Process Server V6.0.1
• Software for Collaboration(Optional)
  • IBM Lotus Domino 7.0.2
  • IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5