Tableau provides minimum system specifications on its website, and those specifications are presented in the material that follows. Analysts who build reports should have better equipment. More internal memory will have a significant positive effect on speed.
Install 4MB to 8MB of internal memory for the best performance. Tableau's rendering engine will take advantage of modern graphics cards as well. Solid-state disk drives outperform physical hard disks. But don't outfit your report-building analysts with state-of-the-art equipment if the majority of your user base is using four-year-old junk. What performs well on a well-appointed computer may not be as enjoyable an experience on a dated system.
The data sources are the same as Tableau Desktop. See Appendix B for a complete list.
The minimum specifications are suggested only for prototyping and testing of Tableau Server. The installer checks for the minimum system requirements and will not proceed on computers with less than these hardware minimums:
64-bit computers
32-bit computers
The minimum configuration recommended for production usage of Tableau Server is based on these hardware specifications:
Single computer
Contact Tableau for sizing and technical guidance or a certified Tableau Gold Partner. Search Tableau's website for scalability white papers and quick-start guides related to hardware configuration.
Tableau Server supports Microsoft Active Directory, SAML 2.0 and the built-in Tableau users system, for user authentication and group membership definitions. Tableau Server also provides Kerberos support for Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) and Cloudera Impala.
All of Tableau’s products operate in virtualized environments when they are configured with the proper underlying Windows operating system and minimum hardware requirements.
All of Tableau's products (with the exception of the command-line tools tabcmd and tabadmin) are Unicode-enabled and compatible with data stored in any language. The user interface and supporting documentation are in English, French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese.