I recently read a weblog entry that claimed, in order to run both the client and server portions of Visual Studio Team System on a single PC (using Microsoft Virtual PC 2004), you would require 3GB of phyiscal memory. Well, my puny home PC only has 1GB of physical RAM, so I might have to go out and buy a new computer in order to experiment with the server aspects of this software.

According to the official Microsoft web page, these are the minimum specs:

Servers:

• 2.6GHz Pentium 4 CPU
• Windows Server 2003
• 1GB RAM for application tier, 1GB for database tier
• 20GB hard disk for application tier, 20GB hard disk for database tier

Client:

• 1GHz Pentium CPU
• Any modern Windows OS
• 256MB RAM
• 3.5GB to 6.0GB hard disk space

So I can certainly see why, if you chose to run the client and the two servers on the same machine, it has to be a hefty machine.

Also realize that the beta software has not yet been fully optimized. So hopefully the “production” version of this application will require less horsepower.