SQL/MX 2.x Installation and Management Guide (G06.24+, H06.03+)

Preparing to Install NonStop SQL/MX

HP NonStop SQL/MX Installation and Management Guide—523723-004

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Hardware Requirements

Before you install NonStop SQL/MX, your HP NonStop S-series system must meet

these minimum requirements:

Note. To run NonStop SQL/MX, you need an NonStop S-series system that is configured with

Open System Services (OSS). The memory requirements for each processor depend on

application usage, the number of data volumes configured to each processor, and other

factors.

The minimum memory requirement is 1 GB for the development phase, with the expectation

that additional memory might be needed for production systems as required by the application

workload. For this reason, processors that do not support the 1 GB minimum memory

requirement (S74, S7000, and S7400) cannot be used with NonStop SQL/MX Release 2.1 or

Release 2.0.

Caution. NonStop SQL/MX requires processors that support IEEE floating-point functions. All

processors in a node on which NonStop SQL/MX is installed must be Model 1954 (S72000) or

later. A processor halt %005101 can result when one or more processors in a system do not

support IEEE floating-point functions.

Hardware Minimum Requirement

System NonStop S-series system. NonStop systems that run NonStop SQL/MX must

use HP NonStop S7200,

S72000,

or later processors that provide IEEE

floating-point support. In addition, these systems cannot be used because

they do not support the minimum memory requirement of 1 GB per processor:

S74, S7000, and S7400.

Disk Minimum 3 disks:

$SYSTEM disk

SQL objects disk

TMF audit disk

Recommended: Minimum 6 disks to include mirrors for the three disks listed

Disk space 500 MB of free space for root file set of OSS environment

A minimum of 800 MB for each processor swap file size (or twice physical

memory)

200 MB for the compressed and uncompressed .tar files of the NonStop

Server for Java

processor 2 processors

Memory per

processor

A minimum 1 GB

per processor

As noted previously, the minimum memory requirement for production systems could be higher, depending on

the application workload.