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

6 Network Advisor SAN Installation and Migration Guide

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Pre-installation requirements

Client and server system requirements

NOTE

Network Advisor is not supported in a Network Address Translation (NAT) environment where the

server and client are on different sides of the NAT Server.

Network Advisor has the following client and server system requirements:

• In the Professional edition, a single server supports a single client, which must be a local client

only.

• In Professional Plus and Enterprise editions, a single server supports a maximum of 25 clients,

which can be local or remote on 32-bit and 64-bit servers.

• In Professional Plus and Enterprise editions, a single server supports a maximum of 25 clients,

which can be local or remote on 64-bit servers. To support more than 8 clients, you must make

the following changes to your configuration:

- Increase the server memory size to 3 GB. You can configure the server memory size from

the Options dialog box, Memory Allocations pane. For instructions, refer to the Network

Advisor User Manual or online help.

- Increase the PostgreSQL database shared buffers memory allocation to 1024 MB by

editing the Install_Home\data\databases\postgresql.conf file.

Pre-installation requirements

Before you install Network Advisor, make sure you meet the following requirements.

• Make sure all system requirements have been met prior to installation. For specific system

requirements, refer to

“System requirements” on page 1.

On Windows systems, if you are running a SAN with SMI Agent large on a 32-bit machine, you

must migrate to a 64-bit machine within your current release, then you can migrate to Network

Advisor 12.0.

• To avoid errors, close all instances of the application before beginning the installation or

uninstallation procedures.

For UNIX system, 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