3PAR System Reporter 2.8 Release Notes

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320-200258 Rev A System Reporter Release Notes November 2010
This document provides Release Notes for System Reporter. Provided in this document are a list of
known issues that may be visible to the customer. Read this entire document before installing
System Reporter.
System Reporter Requirements .................................................................................................. 1
System Reporter Installation Notes ............................................................................................ 2
Changes in System Reporter 2.8 since 2.7 MU1 ......................................................................... 3
Known Issues ................................................................................................................................ 6
System Reporter Requirements
Supported System Reporter Host Platforms
Component Requirement
Operating System Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 (32 or 64-bit), or
Microsoft Windows 2003 SP2, R2 (32 or 64-bit), or
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (32-bit only if using Oracle, 32 or 64-bit
otherwise).
Processor Intel Pentium 4 processor, 3 GHz or higher. Multi-core processors are
recommended both for the database server and for the System
Reporter server, especially when sampling a large configuration
(large number of InServ systems or InServ systems with a large
number of objects). See system sizing spreadsheet included on the
CD installation media.
Memory 1 GB. See system sizing spreadsheet included on the CD installation
media.
Disk Space At least 20GB of available disk space. See system sizing spreadsheet
included on the CD installation media.
The system size (CPU cores, memory size and disk space) above is the minimum required for System
Reporter. However, the resources required depend substantially on the number and size of InServ
systems being sampled as well as the sampling parameters. The CD includes a system sizing
spreadsheet (SR_Sizing.xls) that should be used to determine the number of CPU cores, the amount