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Recommended hardware configurations for separate deployment of applications and databases

  • May 19, 2025
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         Does Acumatica support deploying applications and databases on separate servers? If so, should I prioritize configuring the hardware for the application server or the database server?

Best answer by ray20

Hello ,
          I think we can get reference below:
Typical Hardware and Virtual Machine Configurations for PCS and PCP Licenses for the Acumatica ERP Installation

And also, probably, we should prioritize DB server than Application Server from the Official guide
 

 

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nhatnghetinh
Captain II
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  • Captain II
  • May 20, 2025

Hi ​@ray20 

Please refer to the "AcumaticaERP_InstallationGuide" document for each Acumatica version you want to install. For example: Acumatica 2024 R2 as below is the Server Environment/Database recommended by Acumatica in the document.

 

 

Best Regards,

NNT


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  • Captain II
  • May 20, 2025

@nhatnghetinh  Thank you , but I think this is just the minimum requirement.   Should not be used in a production environment.


nhatnghetinh
Captain II
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  • Captain II
  • May 21, 2025

Hi ​@ray20 

We relied on the recommendations on this "AcumaticaERP_InstallationGuide" document to install on the previous production environment.

 

Best Regards,

NNT


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  • Captain II
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  • May 25, 2025

Hello ,
          I think we can get reference below:
Typical Hardware and Virtual Machine Configurations for PCS and PCP Licenses for the Acumatica ERP Installation

And also, probably, we should prioritize DB server than Application Server from the Official guide
 

 


lacpham63
Freshman I
  • Freshman I
  • December 30, 2025

Adding a practical note for single-server Acumatica On-Premise (App + SQL on one VPS).

We’ve seen cases where a VPS had sufficient CPU and RAM on paper but used standard shared storage (web-oriented VPS). Performance was extremely poor – posting and inquiries were slow and not usable for production. The bottleneck was clearly disk I/O, not CPU or memory.

After moving to an NVMe-based VPS, performance improved immediately with the same CPU/RAM.

Conclusion: for single-server Acumatica deployments, NVMe storage is mandatory. Extra RAM cannot compensate for slow disks.

Reference:
https://s4.com.vn/en/recommended-hardware-for-acumatica-erp-on-cloud-server-nvme-vps-guide/


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  • Jr Varsity II
  • January 15, 2026

@lacpham63 - Hi Lac Pham

 

The S4 Consulting article provided the hardware recommendation for a single NVMe VPS cloud server.

Do you know what the recommendation would be for a two server solution - an IIS App server and an SWL database server? The NVMe disk should be on the SQL server, yes?


lacpham63
Freshman I
  • Freshman I
  • January 16, 2026

Hi, We apologize, but we are currently only running a single-server model and lack practical experience with a dual-server setup.