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Install Acumatica ERP on MAC

  • June 7, 2022
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How to install acumatica erp application in mac

Best answer by Doug Johnson

Acumatica requires an Application and a Database. More details about the environment are available here in the System Requirements document in help.acumatica.com.

  • The application server (as eudescoelho29 points out) requires a Windows operating environment with .NET components running on IIS.
  • The database can run on Microsoft SQL (highly recommended) or MySQL. 

So .. back to the original question … can this run in a Mac environment? The direct answer is no, but you could install a virtual machine (using software from Parallels or VMware) that allows you to run Windows on a Mac. Within your Windows environment on your Mac hardware you should be able to install Acumatica.

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jinin
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  • Pro I
  • June 7, 2022

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Hello Jinin,

The first link you supplied states MAC as MAC OS. 

As far as I know , there is no official version of Acumatica ERP for MAC OS. The install guides do not mention any deployment on MAC OS. Acumatica is written on C# and runs on IIS web server only. 

Would MAC in this question mean something else ? is that a kind of PC running Windows ? 

 


Doug Johnson
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  • Acumatica VP, Product Management
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  • June 8, 2022

Acumatica requires an Application and a Database. More details about the environment are available here in the System Requirements document in help.acumatica.com.

  • The application server (as eudescoelho29 points out) requires a Windows operating environment with .NET components running on IIS.
  • The database can run on Microsoft SQL (highly recommended) or MySQL. 

So .. back to the original question … can this run in a Mac environment? The direct answer is no, but you could install a virtual machine (using software from Parallels or VMware) that allows you to run Windows on a Mac. Within your Windows environment on your Mac hardware you should be able to install Acumatica.


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  • Freshman II
  • May 30, 2024

to resurrect an old question…

i need a portable Acumatica dev environment, that is occasionally off the grid, so no access to remote servers or sql server instances.

prior to silicon (m1, m2, etc) chips on macbooks, i used VMWare to run windows server VM with sql server and acumatica installed, and it worked great on my macbook pro, outperforming any windows-based laptop i could find.   

when it was time to replace that macbook, m1/m2 chips were out, but no good ARM solutions for windows, so i bought a (pricey) dell windows laptop.  i miss the battery life and performance of a macbook...

microsoft now has an official ARM version of windows, but to date no ARM version of sql.  i know it is not officially supported, but has anyone used Parallels to run ARM version windows with IIS and Acumatica, using Docker to run SQL server on their mac?   


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  • Captain II
  • June 10, 2024

Hi @jim71, I have used docker, it is fairly simple to set up with the below video.

Run Microsoft SQL Server on a Mac (M1/M2) (youtube.com)

if you have an M3/M4 chip, this should work too it is a relatively older video, but works.

However, just as a point of caution, I had to install rabbitMQ and Erlang separately for the local instance to run.

 

 


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  • Freshman II
  • June 11, 2024

thanks for the info.  and good to know about rabbitMQ and Erlang.     (fwiw, youtube being what it is, after watching the video from your link, youtube now suggests to me other more recent sql-with-docker videos... the docker/sql install process has not changed).

 


​@aiwan, What is the performance of Acumatica on a Windows virtual machine running on macOS? Suppose SQL Server is installed on a macOS Docker container and Acumatica is set up on Parallels.


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  • Captain II
  • October 6, 2026

​@behrouzseyedi80 

 

i was running it on an M1 chip with 8GB RAM so as you can imagine, very poor performance. I’m sure if you allocate it a nice amount of CPU cores and RAM it would do a decent enough job.


Thank you ​@aiwan for your quick response. I plan to use an M5 Max with 48GB of RAM to run Windows on Parallels for Acumatica and Docker for SQL Server on macOS. I’m curious about the performance when publishing a custom project in Acumatica, including how long it might take for publishing, the initial load, and subsequent data loads. I’d also like to know how the performance would compare if SQL Server were running on an old laptop connected over Wi-Fi, and whether Acumatica supports ARM.
How long does it take in seconds for you to publish, load the initial data, and then handle the subsequent loads?