Foldr Server – System Requirements

Infrastructure Requirements

Users can authenticate with local ‘Foldr’ accounts, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) or NetIQ eDirectory.  Users may also authenticate against third-party SAML compatible IdPs using single sign-on (Google Workspace, Office 365/Microsoft Azure and so on)

SMB shares (SAMBA or Windows Server 2008 R2 onwards supported) or selected cloud storage (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox, Box, S3, Backblaze and more)

An x64 based server, PC or Mac OS X computer to run the selected virtualisation platform. The Foldr appliance is an x86-64 image (the underlying EL9 system requires the x86-64-v2 feature set). Apple Silicon Macs (M1 and later) cannot host Foldr natively in their ARM virtualisation framework. Running it under x86-64 emulation in Parallels Desktop or UTM works, but performance will not match an x86-64 host.

Virtual appliance requirements

VMware ESXi, WorkStation, Fusion, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Nutanix AHV, Oracle VirtualBox, and Parallels Desktop are supported.  Cloud platforms may also be used to host the Foldr appliance, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Digital Ocean etc.

Primary appliance (client access):

< 25 Users – 1 vCPU, 4GB RAM, up to 100GB disk space (~10GB consumed when appliance is deployed)
25 – 50 Users – 2vCPU, 4GB RAM, up to 100GB disk space (~10GB consumed when appliance is deployed)
> 50 Users – 4vCPU, 8GB RAM, up to 100GB disk space (~10GB consumed when appliance is deployed)

Search appliance requirements:

A minimum of 2vCPU, 4GB RAM, up to 100GB disk space (~10GB consumed when appliance is deployed)