After you have selected the deployment scenario that is most appropriate for your IT infrastructure, you must calculate the hardware requirements for servers used for installing application components.
The hardware requirements for 8.0 Central Node servers are different from the hardware requirements of the previous version of the component. We strongly recommend making sure that your server configuration satisfies the requirements listed in the Calculations for the Central Node component section.
If necessary, you can use version 8.0 of the application on hardware designed for version 5.1 of the application.
In this case, the following restrictions apply:
You can find the list of new features in Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack Platform 6.0–8.0 in the What's new section of the Help for the corresponding version.
The upgrade must be performed sequentially from version 5.1: 5.1 → 6.0, 6.0 → 6.0.2, 6.0.2 → 6.1, 6.1 → 7.0.3, 7.0.3 → 7.1.1 or 7.1.2.