Brocade Network Advisor SAN Installation and Migration Guide v12.0.0 (53-1002801-01, March 2013)

2 Network Advisor SAN Installation and Migration Guide
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System requirements
1
Server and Client operating system requirements
NOTE
The SAN with SMI Agent large installation is only supported on a 64-bit Windows
®
operating system.
Table 2 summarizes the required Operating Systems (OS) for servers and the packages supported
by each OS version.
Table 3 summarizes the required OS for clients.
TABLE 2 Server operating system requirements
Operating
system
Version Guest OS version Supported packages
Windows - 2003 Server SP2 (x86 32-bit)
- 2008 Server (x86 32-bit)
- XP Professional SP3 (x86 32-bit)
- 7 Professional (x86 32-bit)
SAN with SMI Agent
SMI Agent only
- 2008 R2 Data Center Edition
(x86 64-bit)
- 2008 R2 Standard Edition
(x86 64-bit)
- 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition
(x86 64-bit)
SAN with SMI Agent
SMI Agent only
Linux
®
- RedHat Enterprise 6.1 Advanced
Platform (x86 32-bit)
- SuSE Enterprise Server 11
(x86 32-bit)
- Oracle Enterprise 6.1 (x86 32-bit)
SAN with SMI Agent
SMI Agent only
Guest VMs - VMware
®
ESX Server i 5.0
1
- Microsoft Hyper-V (Hyper-V Server
2008 R2 SP1)
- KVM
1. It is recommended that you run all Network Advisor virtual CPUs on a single physical CPU.
Supports all server OS ver-
sions available for Windows
and Linux.
Supports all packages avail-
able for Windows and Linux.