HP Netserver AA Solution Installation Guide v4.0 SP1

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Installation Requirements
To complete the Endurance installation, you need to meet the hardware, software, and other
requirements described in the following sections:
• Hardware Requirements
• Software Requirements
Hardware Requirements
To install the Endurance server, you need the following hardware:
Table 1-2 Endurance Server Hardware Requirements
Item Notes
IOPs
The two IOPs must be Pentium
®
class PCI-bus PCs. Each IOP
must have:
• A minimum of 256 MB of system memory
• The capability of restarting automatically after a power failure.
On some systems, you may need to select options for automatic
restart in the system Setup utility.
• A SCSI system disk for the local copy of the version of the
Windows operating system you are using
• SCSI Host Based Adapter (HBA)
• One SCSI-based or IDE CD-ROM
• One SCSI IOP boot device (a physical drive or a logical drive
from a hardware RAID set)
• At least one SCSI hard disk that meets the requirements listed in
the Mirrored Disks Set(s) section of this table
•Two Ethernet Adapters that meet the requirements listed in the
Ethernet adapter section of this table
• Floppy disk drive
• Monitor, keyboard, mouse, and video adapter
Make sure your IOP systems conform with the requirements
specified in the Endurance Release Notes.
No IDE devices other than CD-ROMs may be present.