BriefCam generally recommends using dedicated physical hardware servers for production environments, as per the specifications outlined earlier in this section. In some cases, customers may wish to employ VMs (Virtual Machines) to run BriefCam software. While this is technically possible, VMs tend to excessively depend on virtualization solution resources, and may be impacted by other concurrently running VMs. BriefCam, therefore, cannot guarantee optimal performance for customers using such environments.

If customers want to use VMs in accordance with the limitations stated above, they will need to assure that VMs conform with the physical hardware server specifications recommended by BriefCam, and specifically that the virtualization products reserve and allocate the GPU, CPU and RAM resources required by BriefCam. Additionally, disk IOPS performance (whether of the virtual machines or of external NAS or SAN storage devices) must be guaranteed to be similar to that of a local disk.