Server And Client Operating System Requirements - Brocade Communications Systems StoreFabric SN6500B Installation Manual

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System requirements

Server and Client operating system requirements

Table 4
by each OS version.
NOTE
Large installations (SAN with SMI Agent or IP only) are only supported on 64-bit Windows
systems.
NOTE
SAN with SMI Agent + IP is not supported on 32-bit Windows operating systems.
TABLE 4
Operating
system
Windows
Linux
Guest VMs
1.
Table 5
TABLE 5
Operating
system
Windows
2
summarizes the required Operating Systems (OS) for servers and the packages supported
Server operating system requirements
Version
-
2003 Server SP2 (x86 32-bit)
-
2008 Server (x86 32-bit)
-
XP Professional SP3 (x86 32-bit)
-
7 Professional (x86 32-bit)
-
2008 R2 Data Center Edition
(x86 64-bit)
-
2008 R2 Standard Edition
(x86 64-bit)
-
2008 R2 Enterprise Edition
(x86 64-bit)
-
®
RedHat Enterprise 6.1 Advanced
Platform (x86 32-bit)
-
SuSE Enterprise Server 11
(x86 32-bit)
-
Oracle Enterprise 6.1 (x86 32-bit)
-
®
VMware ESX Server i 5.0
-
Microsoft Hyper-V (Hyper-V Server
2008 R2 SP1)
-
KVM
It is recommended that you run all Network Advisor virtual CPUs on a single physical CPU.
summarizes the required OS for clients.
Client operating system requirements
Version
-
2003 Server SP2 (x86 32-bit)
-
2008 Server (x86 32-bit)
-
XP Professional SP3 (x86 32-bit)
-
7 Professional (x86 32-bit)
Guest OS version
1
Supports all server OS ver-
sions available for Windows
and Linux.
Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide
®
operating
Supported packages
SAN with SMI Agent
IP only
SMI Agent only
SAN with SMI Agent
IP only
SMI Agent only
SAN with SMI Agent + IP
SAN with SMI Agent
IP only
SMI Agent only
SAN with SMI Agent + IP
Supports all packages avail-
able for Windows and Linux.
Guest OS version
53-1002699-01