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Table of Contents
Supported Operating Systems
Operating System Limitations
Hardware Requirements
Software Requirements
License Manager Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

Supported Operating System Minimum

Version		 Maximum

Version
Sun Solaris 9 (SPARC) Maintenance Update 3 or higher  
Sun Solaris 10 (SPARC) Maintenance Update 4 (8/07) or higher  
Windows 2003 Server Standard, Enterprise,  Datacenter (32-bit and 64-bit (EM64T)) SP2 SP2
Windows 2003 Server Terminal Services SP2 SP2
Windows 2008 Server Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter (32-bit and 64-bit (EM64T))   SP2
Windows 2008 R2 Server Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter (64-bit (EM64T))    
Windows 7 Ultimate, Enterprise, Professional, Home Premium (32-bit and 64-bit (EM64T))    
Windows Vista Ultimate, Enterprise, Business, Home Premium (32-bit and 64-bit (EM64T)) SP2 SP2
Windows XP Professional Edition, Home Edition (32-bit) SP3 SP3
Windows XP Professional Edition, Home Edition (64-bit (EM64T)) SP2 SP2

Hardware Requirements

CPU Speed 2.2 GHz minimum or higher; Hyper-threading (HHT) or Multi-core recommended
Processor

Windows: Intel Pentium 4, Intel Core Duo, or Xeon Processors; SSE2 (or greater)

On Windows: Run this Microsoft utility from your Windows command prompt to check your processor

See Dual or dual-core support policy.

Solaris: UltraSPARC II, IIi, IIe minimum
Memory/RAM 2 GB or higher
Display Properties 24 bit color depth
Screen Resolution 1024 x 768 recommended or higher at Normal size (96dpi)
Swap Space

Determined by the operating system, 500 MB minimum.
Disk Space

Windows: 820 MB

Solaris: 770 MB; Core Only: 625 MB

An additional 100 MB is required for all samples.
User Interface
 Solaris: Solaris: X Windows with a Desktop Environment. The Java Desktop Environment (based on Gnome) meets the X Windows requirement. Note: CDE on Solaris 10 has been deprecated by Sun.

Software Requirements

Microsoft WinHelp patch for Windows 7 and Windows Vista:

The following Microsoft patch is recommended, but not required, when using ArcGIS Desktop, ArcInfo Workstation, ArcGIS Engine or ArcReader on Microsoft Vista or Windows 7. ArcGIS Desktop, ArcInfo Workstation, ArcGIS Engine and ArcReader provide pop-up context sensitive help topics for tools, commands and dialogs delivered using WinHlp32. WinHlp32 will not function on Windows 7 and Windows Vista without this patch. Here is Microsoft KnowledgeBase article 917607 about this patch, which also contains links so you can download the patch. If you access pop-up context sensitive help without this patch being present, you will get a message from Windows prompting you to download the patch. For best usability, we recommend installing the patch at the time you install ArcGIS. For additional information, please refer to Esri KnowledgeBase article 32530.

 

Printer Support

Windows
ArcGIS supports printing to any Microsoft certified Windows printer using the native driver in ArcGIS. Please note that some printer drivers do not support complex maps and the ArcPress printer driver or additional hardware may be needed for these complex maps.

  • Esri recommends the following configuration when printing large maps with the ArcPress printer drivers:
    • Pagefile system size of 4096 MB is recommended. ArcPress depends on being able to acquire potentially large contiguous blocks of memory to process a map. The windows limit is 2048 MB and by having a pagefile.sys file of at least twice that size helps ensure that other applications running and using the pagefile system will not introduce an unexpected limit for the ArcPress printer driver.
    • Pagefile system should be stored on a dedicated partition or, if possible, a dedicated drive. This will prevent the file from becoming fragmented and diminishing ArcPress's ability to acquire contiguous blocks of memory.
    • If large complex maps do not print, then reboot the computer to ensure the pagefile system is cleared. If the pagefile system is not a dedicated drive or partition, make sure that drive does not need to be defragmented.
    • Disk Space: at least 10 GB of free space is required on the drive where %TEMP% is located, as potentially large temporary files will be written there while ArcPress is processing a map for printing.

UNIX
Please note that some printer drivers do not support complex maps and the ArcPress printer driver or additional hardware may be needed for these complex maps.

 

License Manager 10 System Requirements

Supported Operating System Minimum

Version		 Maximum

Version
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES/WS 4 (32-bit and 64-bit) Update 4 or higher  
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (32-bit and 64-bit) Base or higher  
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (32-bit and 64-bit) SP2 or higher  
Sun Solaris 10 (64-bit (SPARC)) Maintenance Update 4
(8/07) or higher		  
Windows 2003 Server Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter
(32-bit and 64-bit (EM64T))		 SP2 SP2
Windows 2008 Server Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter
(32-bit and 64-bit (EM64T))		   SP2
Windows Vista Ultimate, Enterprise, Business, Home Premium
(32-bit and 64-bit (EM64T))		 SP2 SP2
Windows XP Professional Edition, Home Edition (32-bit) SP3 SP3
Windows XP Professional Edition, Home Edition (64-bit (EM64T)) SP2 SP2

 

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Hardware requirements for License Manager 10 are identical to ArcInfo Workstation 10 hardware requirements.

 

Operating System Limitations

All Platforms

When running in a 64-bit environment, ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Engine, and ArcReader run as a 32-bit application.  See Does ESRI support 64-bit processors with ArcGIS 10.0 products?

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Operating System Limitations - Windows

  • ArcGIS Developer Help System on Windows 7 requires Adobe Reader 9.1.2 or higher. See KB37244 for more details.
  • ArcGlobe/ArcScene, and any other 3D application generally will not work over Remote Desktop or other Windows Terminal Services clients, because they do not support 3D graphics acceleration.
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Operating System Limitations - Solaris

It is a requirement that the OS (binary) has not been modified. Esri does not provide any support if products are installed on Developer's Release of an Operating System.

Sun Solaris 10

  • The following are required:
    • Solaris Maintenance Update 4 (dated 8/07) minimum or higher
    • 113886-29 patch for OpenGL
    • 113887-29 patch for OpenGL
    • 119812-08 patch for X11 6.6.2 (dated 2/2010)
    • OpenGL: Sun OpenGL 1.5 patch 120812-31 or any version of Mesa that supports OpenGL 2.0 runtime environment or higher.
    • ArcGIS Engine and ArcGIS Server take advantage of Sun's "extended FILE" facility when running on a Solaris system that supports that functionality. This substantially expands the number of files ArcGIS can have open simultaneously on Solaris. Sun's extended FILE support for SPARC systems is only available on Solaris 10. It is included in Solaris 10 releases done after August 2007.
  • For 64 bit OS support: the 32 bit versions of the packages above must be installed prior to installing ArcGIS.

 

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