What are the requirements for NTA 4.

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Updated March 31, 2018

Environment
• NTA 4.0 through 4.2.3
• NTA 4.4 - see NTA 4.4 System Requirements

Detail
Pre-requisites for NTA 4.x:
• 64bit environment. If you have more than one poller, make sure they are all on 64bit OS’s.
• Compatible NPM version. For more information, see the compatibility chart in the SolarWinds KB
article Compatibility of SolarWinds Orin Products for Installation and Upgrade.
• NTA Flow Storage database must be installed before upgrading / installing NTA on the pollers (valid for NTA
versions 4.0 through 4.2.3)
◦ NTA Flow Storage Database - For more information about database server requirements, see NTA
requirements.
• Connection to Orion database. NTA 4.x needs access to CBQoS data and some additional low level information
which are still stored in this DB.
◦ CBQoS policy utilization is available in CBQoS resources and reports.

Note: NTA 4.1.1 requires SolarWinds NPM 11.5 or later versions. Make sure to upgrade NPM before upgrading to NTA
4.1.1. For more details about upgrading NTA, see the following:
• Upgrade Steps
• Compatibility of SolarWinds Orion Products for Installation and Upgrade

Hardware requirements for NTA 4.x:

• NTA 4.x requires64-bit operating systems to ensure the new NTA Flow Storage Database and scalability benefits.
• Poller: the same requirements as Orion NPM. For more information, see NTA Polling Engine Requirements.

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 • Orion Database: the same requirements as Orion NPM. For more information, see Requirements for the Orion
Database Server (SQL Server).
• MS SQL Database – For more information about NPM and SQL Server requirements, see SolarWinds NPM
Requirements.
• NTA Flow Storage Database (for NTA 4.0 through 4.2.3):
◦ Quad core 3GHz processor or better
◦ 16GB of RAM. To ensure optimal performance, RAM should be increased as the database size increases
◦ 20GB of storage capacity on a 7200 rpm local NTFS disk
◦ 8GB for every sustained 1000 flows/s with 30-days retention period
◦ 64-bit Windows Server 2003 SP2 or newer
Note: Itanium-based servers are not supported.
◦ NTFS Required
◦ Raid 0 or 1+0 supported.
• RAM:
◦ Evaluation - 8 GB
◦ Production - 16-128 GB

Supported Flow Technologies for NTA 4.1.1:

• Support for NetFlow-Lite.
• Support for VMWare ESX vCenters
• Citrix Technologies IPFIX support.

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