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Before installing Magic Collaboration Studio, make sure that the system requirements described in this chapter are met.

Cassandra installation

Magic Collaboration Studio requires Cassandra installation. To learn more about the hardware requirements for Cassandra, see https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/cassandra/operating/hardware.html


Recommended system requirements

System requirements are dictated by the intended deployment, taking into account the overall load which the environment will experience including:

  • Number of concurrent users
  • Level of activity (commits) per day
  • Overall number and size of the projects stored in Teamwork Cloud.

The database (Cassandra) can be located on the same server as Magic Collaboration Studio or on a separate server.  Storage requirements apply only to the node where the database is located. Magic Collaboration Studio hosting nodes can be virtualized without any issues if the host is not oversubscribed on its resources.

Nodes containing both Magic Collaboration Studio and Cassandra

  • 96 -128 GB ECC RAM
  • >=16 processor threads (such as E5-1660)
  • >1TB SSD DAS storage

Nodes containing only Cassandra

  • 48 - 64 GB ECC RAM
  • >=8 processor threads (such as E5-1620)
  • >1TB SSD DAS storage

Nodes containing only Magic Collaboration Studio

  • 48 - 64 GB ECC RAM
  • >=8 processor threads (such as E5-1620)
  • >250GB storage

Multi-Node Clusters

Recommended minimum sizing stated above applies to each node in a multi-node cluster

SAN Storage

SAN Storage should not be used on Cassandra nodes for data or commit log volumes. This will result in severe performance degradation. There is no amount of SAN tuning and OS tuning which could mitigate this.

Hardware requirements

  • 8 Processor Cores - i.e. Quad-Core Hyper-threaded CPU (such as Intel E3-1230 or faster).
  • 32 GB RAM (Motherboard with an ECC RAM is recommended) and 8 GB RAM dedicated for TeamworkCloud

  • At least 3 separate disks, preferably SSD (NVMe), (OS/Application, Data, and Commit logs). Depending on company backup procedures and infrastructure, an additional disk, equal to the data disk in size, may be required for storing the backup snapshots.

  • Cassandra 3.11.x.
  • OpenJDK 1.8.0_202 or later used with Cassandra (or Oracle Java). Java 1.8 updated later than 251 cannot be used with Cassandra on the Windows platform.
  • OpenJDK 11.0.12 used with Teamwork Cloud.
  • FlexNet License Server.
  • Open ports 2552, 7000, 7001, 7199, 9042, 9160, and 9142 between servers in a cluster, and open ports 3579, 8111, 8443, and 8555 (default) for clients. Also, a port number assigned to secure connections between the client software and Teamwork Cloud is required.
  • a static IP address for each node.


Software requirements

Supported operating systems:

  • Linux (RedHat/CentOS 7), 64 bit.
  • Windows 2012 R2 or Windows 2016.

Operating Systems

We recommend using the Linux operating system. For more information, please visit https://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/cassandra-and-windows-past-present-and-future.


For additional server capacity and performance recommendations, see https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/cassandra/operating/hardware.html

If deploying on Amazon EC2

In the case of deploying on Amazon EC2, we recommend using the m5-2xlarge, r5-2xlarge, or i3-2xlarge instances.  Depending on the workloads, you may want to go to the -4xlarge instances, but for the vast majority of users, the -2xlarge will suffice. The m5 instances meet the minimum system requirements and will be acceptable for small deployments. The r5 instances provide more memory for the same CPU density. The i3 instances should be used when workloads have a higher level of user concurrency due to the significantly improved performance of the ephemeral NVMe storage.