INPS Warranted Environment

In order to run Vision, the local IT infrastructure must meet minimum standards, and these are laid out below.

Vision Fileserver

Not all practices will have a local Vision file server, but these are the requirements for those that do:

For those practices running only “FAT Clients” (see glossary below):

  • Processor: If single core – at least 2.4 GHz Xeon; all Dual and Quad core Intel Xeon processors will be acceptable.
  • Operating System: Windows 2000 Server SP4 minimum, Windows Server 2003 SP2 preferred and recommended.
  • Memory: 2GB minimum, 4GB recommended.
  • Hard Disks: Minimum 73GB, ideally 146 GB, in either RAID 1 or RAID 5 configuration.
  • Additional Hard disk for System Page File and Encryption Work File.
  • Network Card: Gigabit strongly recommended.
  • Backup Device: Capable of storing the full hard disk contents – INPS recommends the Ultrium LT range (LT-02 stores 200 GB of data, compressed it can hold 400 GB). INPS will install Backup Exec v12.5 and encrypt the tape output.

For “Thin Client” practices – as above except:

  • Processor – minimum of 2 single core Xeons (of at least 2.4 GHz), or at least one Dual core or Quad core Xeon.
  • No more than 18-20 thin client connections per server.
  • Always 4 GB RAM.

Your INPS account manager can discuss the options for large numbers of Thin Client users.

It must be noted that these are for an average practice. Practices with large datasets (either a list size of around 10,000 or more, or maybe smaller but with 15+ years of data) will require 146 GB hard disks; 73 GB disks will be inadequate.

Network Connectivity

Switch:

  • 100 Mbps duplex for ‘thin client’.
  • 1 Gigabit for ‘fat client’ recommended.

Workstation

  • Processor: Minimum 2.4 GHz single core Processor, or any dual or quad core processor.
  • Network Card: 100 Mbps; 1 gigabit for “fat client” highly recommended.
  • Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP2; Windows 2000 Professional SP4 (thin client only).
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM minimum; 2GB mandatory for scanning PCs
  • Hard Disk: 80GB minimum.
  • Monitor: 17” TFT minimum.
  • Card Reader: In England an approved smart card reader (see separate list on the web site).
  • Printers: see the separate “Accredited Printer List” on this web site.

Glossary

Thin Client – running Terminal Services, either at a branch or locally. Vision runs on the server, not on the workstation as with Fat Client.

Fat Client – running with a local server and connected directly to that server, with Vision running on the local workstation.