HP IO Accelerator Driver and Management Software Version 2.3.10 Release Notes

System requirements 7
Average block
size (bytes)
Minimum system
requirements for 785 GB
IO Accelerator*
Minimum system RAM
requirements for 1.2 TB IO
Accelerator*
Minimum system RAM
requirements for 2410
GB IO Accelerator*
8.192
2.2 GB 3.4 GB 6.7 GB
4.096
4.2 GB 6.4 GB 12.7 GB
2.048
8.1 GB 12.4 GB 24.7 GB
1.024
15.7 GB 24 GB 48 GB
512
31.2 GB 47.6 GB 95.3 GB
* For IO Accelerator use only. Additional RAM is needed for system operating system and application.
For example, if your system is equipped with a device that has a total capacity of 1200 GB (this example
device has two IO Accelerator Gen2 devices) formatted to use 4,096 byte sectors, then your system might
require as much as:
Approximately 6.4 GB of system RAM (1200 GB capacity / 100 GB x 530 MB of RAM = 6,360 MB) might
be used by the IO Accelerator driver.
Supported operating systems
All operating systems must be 64-bit x86 architecture to support IO Accelerator devices. HP strongly
recommends that you run the latest Service Pack of a release.
Supported Linux operating systems
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (up to 5.8) and 6 (up to 6.2)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 SP4, 11, 11 SP1, 11 SP2
• OEL 5 (up to 5.7) and 6 (up to 6.2)
Supported Windows operating systems
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server 64-Bit (with SP2 or higher)
• Microsoft Windows 2008 Server 64-Bit, R1 (with SP2 or higher)
• Microsoft Windows 2008 Server 64-Bit, R2
IMPORTANT: IO Accelerator devices cannot be used as hibernation devices.
Hyper-V support
Hyper-V, as a Type 2 hypervisor on top of Windows 2008 R2, is supported.
IMPORTANT: With Hyper-V, only a 512 B sector size is supported on IO Accelerator devices.
For more information on sector sizes on Windows operating systems, see the Microsoft
Knowledge Base article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2510009).
Supported VMware operating systems
• VMware ESX 4.0 Update 4