Calculating disk storage requirements

System software
Content Manager OnDemand servers require disk space for a wide range of software products to support the business applications running on them.
Temporary space for indexing
Content Manager OnDemand requires temporary storage space on disk to index reports.
Disk storage for stored reports
The amount of disk space that you should dedicate to stored report data varies greatly based on requirements such as the number of reports that you store on the system, the compression ratio that Content Manager OnDemand can achieve, and the amount of time that you need to keep a report on disk.
Content Manager OnDemand database storage
When you load a report into the system, Content Manager OnDemand extracts index data from the report and stores it in an application group table in the database.
Database journal storage
The Content Manager OnDemand database includes recovery journal and journal receivers which are used to recover from application or system errors.
Temporary space for importing index data
Content Manager OnDemand requires temporary work space to import migrated index data from archive media into the database.

Parent topic: Storage requirements