Brocade Network Advisor Installation Guide v11.1x (53-1002320-01, May 2011)

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Pre-installation requirements
Pre-installation requirements
Before you install Network Advisor, make sure you meet the following requirements for each platform.
Pre-installation requirements for Windows systems
Make sure all system requirements have been met prior to installation. For specific system requirements, refer to
“System requirements” on page 13.
Pre-installation requirements for UNIX systems
• Make sure all system requirements have been met prior to installation. For specific system requirements, refer
to “System requirements” on page 13.
• To avoid errors, close all instances of the application before beginning the installation or uninstallation
procedures.
If you still receive error messages after closing the application, enter the following commands:
#ps -ef | grep -i “” to list the process IDs
#kill -9 “Process_ID” where Process_ID is any Management application process
• Check for and install the latest Java patches for your operating system. Network Advisor requires Oracle
JRE 1.6.0_24. For the website listing patch information, go to
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html.
TABLE 19 Supported limits by SAN size for SMI Agent only on mixed fabrics (Fabric OS and M-EOS fabrics)
Values Small Medium Large
Number of Fabrics 81624
Number of Domains 10 30 60
Number of Switch Ports 1000 2500 5000
Number of Device Ports 2500 5000 10000
Number of Access Gateways 20 30 40
TABLE 20 Supported limits by SAN size for SMI Agent only on pure M-EOS fabrics
Small Medium Large
Number of Fabrics 81624
Number of Domains 10 30 60
Number of Switch Ports 1000 2500 5000
Number of Device Ports 2500 5000 10000
Number of Access Gateways 20 30 40