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Summary: information to help you plan your CAST Storage Service / PostgreSQL installation.

Hardware

On-premise

Server type

Architecture

CPU

RAM

DISK

OS

Notes

Physical/virtual

64-bit

Minimum 2 processors:

Intel Core i5, 2.6 GHz
Intel Xeon, 2.2 GHz

Recommended 4 processors:

Intel Core i7, 2.8 GHz
Intel Xeon, 2.6 GHz

32GB min

512GB (SSD recommended)

Windows or Linux

CAST highly recommends the use of PostgreSQL on a Linux instance as this consistently gives the best performance.

Cloud services

The following requirements are based on CAST's own testing for the analysis of a single "large Application", using Amazon EC2 R5 Instances:

Minimum instance type	Volume Size	Volume Type	Minimum IOPS
r5.xlarge r5d.xlarge	512GB	General purpose SSD (gp2) or Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1)	400

Supported Operating Systems

Note that CAST highly recommends the use of a Linux Operating System to host a PostgreSQL RDBMS, instead of using the CAST Storage Service on a Windows operating system. PostgreSQL installed on Linux has consistently proven to provide better performance than CAST Storage Service installed on Windows.

Operating System	Supported	Supported by ref.	Deprecated support	Notes
Linux (all recent distributions)				See the following PostgreSQL documentation for more information: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/supported-platforms.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/supported-platforms.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/supported-platforms.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/supported-platforms.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/supported-platforms.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/supported-platforms.html
Microsoft Windows Server 2019				Installations of Windows Server using only Server Core (i.e. without a GUI) are not supported.
Microsoft Windows 10
Microsoft Windows Server 2016				Installations of Windows Server using only Server Core (i.e. without a GUI) are not supported.
Microsoft Windows 8.1
Microsoft Windows 7 SP1
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 (Standard edition)				Installations of Windows Server using only Server Core (i.e. without a GUI) are not supported.
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (Standard edition)
Microsoft Windows 8
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (Standard edition)

Supported CAST Storage Service releases

Supported PostgreSQL releases

CAST does not provide a custom installer for Linux Operating Systems, however, you can install the following official PostgreSQL RDBMS on to a 64bit Linux Operating System (supported by PostgreSQL) and use it as a storage host for CAST AIP:

PostgreSQL release

Supported

Supported by ref.

Deprecated support

Notes

13.x

Support is available for PostgreSQL 12.x and 13.x (64bit) as storage, i.e. AIP schemas can be created on this version and analyses will run as expected. Some prerequisites do apply:

Minimum required release of CAST AIP core: 8.3.23
Minimum required release of specific extensions - same as for PostgreSQL 10.x and 11.x - see below.

12.x

11.x

Support is available for PostgreSQL 10.x and 11.x (64bit) as storage, i.e. AIP schemas can be created on these versions and analyses will run as expected. Some prerequisites do apply:

Minimum required release of CAST AIP core: 8.3.16
Minimum required release of specific extensions:

JEE Analyzer extension	com.castsoftware.jee	≥ 1.0.19	The required minimum releases of these extensions are delivered as "shipped extensions" in AIP 8.3.16.
.NET Analyzer extension	com.castsoftware.dotnet	≥ 1.0.13
SAP BusinessObjects Analyzer extension	com.castsoftware.businessobject	≥ 1.0.4 (LTS)
C and Cpp Analyzer extension	com.castsoftware.cpp	≥ 2.0.5-funcrel	-
iOS - Objective-C Analyzer extension	com.castsoftware.cfamily	≥ 1.5.2-funcrel	-

10.x

9.6.11

-

9.2.x

-

CAST Storage Service/PostgreSQL running in encrypted SSL mode

Support is available for connecting to CAST Storage Service/PostgreSQL instances running in encrypted SSL mode. See SSL encrypted mode configuration for CAST Storage Service and PostgreSQL:

CAST AIP core (any application provided with the CAST AIP "core" setup)		≥ 8.3.24
CAST Architecture Checker (standalone)		≥ 1.2.0-funcrel
CAST Dashboards		≥ 2.0.0-beta1
CAST Imaging (for Source Code configuration)		≥ 2.0.0-funcrel (when using Microsoft Windows traditional installer)
CAST AIP Console (AIP Node)		≥ 1.17.0-funcrel
Sherlock (CAST Support tool)		Sherlock delivered in AIP Core ≥ 8.3.25.

Official CAST AIP Extensions are compatible, however specific minimum releases are required:

JEE Analyzer extension	com.castsoftware.jee	≥ 1.0.28	The required minimum releases of these extensions are those that are delivered as "shipped extensions" in AIP 8.3.24.
.NET Analyzer extension	com.castsoftware.dotnet	≥ 1.0.17
SAP BusinessObjects Analyzer extension	com.castsoftware.businessobject	≥ 1.0.6 (LTS)
C and Cpp Analyzer extension	com.castsoftware.cpp	≥ 2.1.0-funcrel	-
iOS - Objective-C Analyzer extension	com.castsoftware.cfamily	≥ 1.5.4-funcrel	-

Required ports

The following TCP ports must be opened on the server hosting CAST Storage Service/PostgreSQL:

CSS / PostgreSQL release	Listening Port
CSS 4.13.x	2284
CSS 3.0.x	2282
CSS 2.0.x	2280
PostgreSQL ≥ 10.x	Custom port (2282/2284 highly recommended)
PostgreSQL 9.6.11	Custom port (2282 highly recommended)
PostgreSQL 9.2.x	Custom port (2280 highly recommended)