HP XP P9000 RAID Manager Installation and Configuration User Guide (T1610-96046, August 2012)

1 Installation requirements
This chapter describes Installation requirements.
System requirements
RAID Manager operations involve the RAID Manager software on the UNIX/PC server host, the
command device(s) on the RAID storage system(s), and the logical volumes on the RAID storage
system(s).
The system requirements for RAID Manager are:
• RAID Manager software product. The RAID Manager software is supplied on CD-ROM or
diskette. The RAID Manager software files take up 2.5 MB of space. The log files can take up
to 3 MB of space.
• Host platforms. RAID Manager is supported on the following host platforms. See Table 2 (page
7) – Table 10 (page 12) for detailed information on supported OS versions.
◦ Solaris, Solaris/x86
◦ HP-UX
◦ AIX
◦ Linux, Linux/IA64
◦ VMware
◦ Windows
◦ OpenVMS, OpenVMS/IA
◦ DYNIX/ptx
◦ IRIX
• The configuration setting command (raidcom command) supports the following host platforms:
HP-UX◦
◦ WindowsNT
◦ WindowsNT/x64
◦ Solaris
◦ Solaris/x86
◦ AIX
◦ Linux
◦ Linux/IA64
For details about the configuration setting command (raidcom command), see the HP XP
P9000 RAID Manager User Guide and the HP XP P9000 RAID Manager Reference Guide.
• Host access: Root/administrator access to the host is required to perform RAID Manager
operations.
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