System Requirements; Hardware Requirements - Qlogic SANsurfer FC HBA Manager User Manual

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System Requirements

For optimum performance, the SANsurfer FC HBA Manager requires the
hardware and software listed in this section:
"Hardware Requirements" on page 3-1
"Software Requirements" on page 3-2
"Supported QLogic Adapters" on page 3-4

Hardware Requirements

The minimum hardware requirements are as follows:
QLogic QLx2xxx PCI to Fibre Channel adapters or QLE8xxx converged
network adapters (see
Single-processor or multiprocessor server or workstation:
FC devices, such as disks and RAID subsystems. SANsurfer FC HBA
Manager supports most FC devices. For a complete list of devices that
support failover, see the QLogic SAN Interoperability Guide, which you can
download from the QLogic Web site (you will be asked to provide your e-mail
address):
NOTE:
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"Supported QLogic Adapters" on page
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Pentium III with 1GHz or greater for Windows XP Professional,
Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows
Server 2008, Red Hat/SUSE Linux, Solaris x86, or NetWare.
Sun™ Ultra™ 60 for Solaris SPARC.
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Power Mac G5 1.8 MHz or greater with 512 MB of memory, or Mac
with Intel processor 2.0 GHz or greater with 1 GB of memory.
http://connect.qlogic.com/interopguide/Interoperability.asp
Tape devices appear as part of the configuration, although the
SANsurfer FC HBA Manager does not fully support them (it only
supports LUN masking).
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