UMDS system requirements (and more)

[mediumrare]

Hi everybody, I’ve got some questions according the UMDS (5.1) and UM (5.0, 5.1).

I’d like to know about the UMDS system requirements as the official documentation is not very informative about that.
I assume that I need a Windows Server 2k8 (R2) with sth. like 1 vCPU and 4GB vRAM.
What about the Database? Is it ok to use the MS SQL Express provided with the installer or do I need a full MSSQL-DB? ---> What is a „small scale deployment“ mentioned in the documentation?
How much diskspace do I need for the DB and the patches? Can I use the values provided by the UM sizing estimator?

As we'd like to offer the patches by http to the UM, I’d like the UMDS to download the patches into the folder inetpub\wwwroot directly. Is this possible or do I have to download the patches to an other folder first and then export the patches into the inetpub\wwwroot? (I don't want to waste so much diskspace...)

As we don't have ESX(i)3.x/4.x-Hosts, I don't want to download these patches, if possible. How can I do that? Is this set of commands correct?

vmware-umds -S --enable-host --enable-va
vmware-umds -S -d esx-3.5.0 embeddedEsx-3.5.0
vmware-umds -S -d esx-4.0.0 embeddedEsx-4.0.0

What about new ESXi-Images? Can I download/provide them with UMDS to the UM or do I still have to upload these images to the UM manually from my desktop?

Thanks a lot in advance for your answers!

[lakshya32]

Hi  mediumrare

Welcome to the forums.

What about the Database?

You are looking from budget site then may use mysql instead of ms sql

"When you fail to plan, you plan to fail."

[mediumrare]

Fortunately I don't have to care about the budget. :smileyhappy:

I just don't like setting up an UMDS which must be rebuild a few months later because of poor preparation.

So is it safe to use the MSSQL Express or should I better use Oracle/MSSQL?