The minimum and recommended hardware requirements for System Center Capacity Planner are the following:

• Intel Pentium or compatible 1-GHz or faster processor
  
  
• 512 MB of RAM
  
  
• 30 MB of available disk space on the drive where you install System Center Capacity Planner
  
  
• CD-ROM drive
  
  
• XGA graphics adapter and monitor
  
  

  Note
  Only 16-bit color or higher is supported.

System Center Capacity Planner is supported on the following operating systems:

• The Windows Vista Ultimate operating system
  
  
• The Windows Vista Enterprise operating system
  
  
• The Windows Vista Business operating system
  
  
• The Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition operating system with Service Pack 2
  
  
• The Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition operating system with Service Pack 2
  
  
• The Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition operating systems
  
  
• The Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition operating systems
  
  
• The Windows XP Professional operating system with Service Pack 2
  
  
• The Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating system with Service Pack 2
  
  

All localized versions of the operating systems listed are supported except right-to-left language versions.

System Center Capacity Planner requires the following software:

• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 version.
  
  You can download .NET Framework 2.0 from the Microsoft Download Center (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=56407).
  
  
• Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) version 2.6 or later.
  
  This is a requirement for the .NET Framework Data Provider for OLE DB used by Capacity Planner. You can download MDAC from the MSDN Web site (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=67849).
  
  

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