SharePoint Farm Architecture:
Hardware requirements
- Hard disk storage: Minimum 80GB
- RAM: 8GB for small delpoyments
- 16GB for medium deployments
- Processor: X64 based pcs with 4 core and 8 core CPU
Software requirements
- Database
Microsoft SQL Server 2012(64 bit)
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1
- Operating system
Windows server 2008 R2 (Standard, Enterprise) 64 bit edition SP1
Windows server 2012 (Standard, Datacenter) 64 bit edition
- Prerequisite for installing Microsoft SharePoint products.
- Application Server role
- Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.5
- SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Native Client
- Microsoft WCF Data Services 5.0
- Microsoft Information Protection and Control Client (MSIPC)
- Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 SP1 (x64)
- Windows Management Framework 3.0 which includes Windows PowerShell 3.0(Server 2008 R2 Installation)
- Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) 1.0 and Microsoft Identity Extensions (previously named WIF 1.1)
- Windows Server AppFabric
- Cumulative Update Package 1 for Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server (KB 2671763)
Download prerequisites from here.