Technical specifications

The minimum configuration recommended for production usage of Tableau Server is based on these hardware specifications:

• 8 physical cores / 16V-CPU (e.g. AWS)
• 128 GB system memory
• 50 GB minimum free disk space

Tableau Prep Conductor

We recommend deploying Tableau Prep Conductor on a dedicated node with a minimum of 4 cores and 16 GB of memory. Additional resources may be needed depending on the use case. Contact Tableau for sizing and technical guidance.

Tableau Resource Monitoring Tool

The Tableau Resource Monitoring Tool has two components: an agent that is installed on each node of the Tableau Server cluster it is monitoring, and the RMT Server for processing and hosting the web service. A separate machine/VM is needed for the RMT Server, where all processing and analysis takes place. The minimum specifications for the RMT Server are:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2016, 2019 and 2022
• Alma Linux 8.x and 9.x, Amazon Linux 2 and 2023, CentOS 7.9+, CentOS Stream 8.x and 9.x, Oracle Linux 7.3+, 8.x and 9.x, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.3+,  8.3+ and 9.x, Rocky Linux 8.x and 9.x, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS and 22.04 LTS, all on x86-64 chipsets only (ARM-based processors are not supported), Linux distro
• CPUs must support SSE4.2 and POPCNT instruction sets
• 8 physical CPU cores (16 vCPUs)
• 64GB RAM
• 500GB disk space, SSD drive or similar for performance

For RMT Server installations that match the minimum hardware specified above, the Resource Monitoring Tool can provide performance reporting for Tableau Server deployments serving up to 10,000 views per hour.
For deployments with more view loads per hour, or very high numbers of background jobs, data delays may occur. In these cases, you may need to upgrade your hardware.

Tableau Content Migration Tool

The Content Migration Tool is run from a Windows computer and is able to connect to Tableau Servers with Advanced Management enabled. To review compatible versions of Tableau Server and Content Migration Tool, please check here. The minimum specifications are:

• Microsoft Windows 8 or newer (x64)
• Intel Core i3 or AMD Ryzen 3 (dual core)
• 4 GB or larger
• 2 GB HDD free or larger You may need additional disk space if you are migrating large amounts of content. All content is stored locally on disk during a migration.

Enterprise deployments

Contact Tableau for sizing and technical guidance.

Read our Tableau Server Scalability white paper for architecture recommendations and to see benchmark results.

View additional white papers for more information about scalability, high availability and optimising Tableau for the enterprise.

Supports Microsoft Active Directory, SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect and built-in Tableau users and groups for user authentication and group membership definitions. Kerberos support for Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services and Cloudera Impala. LDAP for Tableau Server on Linux.

Citrix environments, Microsoft Hyper-V, Parallels, VMware (including vMotion), Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.

All Tableau products operate in virtualised environments when they are configured with the proper underlying operating system and minimum hardware requirements. CPUs must support SSE4.2 and POPCNT instruction sets so any processor compatibility mode must be disabled. We recommend VM deployments with dedicated CPU affinity.

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