Recommended configuration

For information, here follows a quite standard configuration, and therefore the one we recommend.

Hardware Minimum Configuration

Processor	Quad Core, Intel Xeon 1220+
Memory	8GB
Storage	SAS HDD, 15k RPM, 20GB, RAID1

Software

Debian (Linux)	8 (64 bits)
or Ubuntu	14.04 (64 bits)
Apache Web Server	≥ 2.4
PHP (CGI not FPM)	5.6
MySQL	5.1 ≤ version ≤ 5.6 (sufficient for most projects, depending on volumetry)
MongoDB	2.4 See System Requirements to determine wether you need it or not.

Warning

For performance reasons, we recommend having the database on the same server on which import and export job will be run. Otherwise you will have potential network latency when communicating with the database instead of using a socket to communicate more efficiently.

Warning

For security reasons, the database root user should not be used by Akeneo PIM to access its database.

Virtualization

If you need to host the application on a virtual machine, remember that depending on your virtualization technology and its configuration:

• The virtual CPUs (vCPUs) will not be equivalent of physical CPUs;
• Read and write operations on the filesystem may be less efficient.