User`s manual

AOC-USAS2-L8i/L8e Add-on Card User’s Manual

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8-2 Hardware and Software Requirements

The hardware requirements for MegaRAID Storage Manager software are as follows:

• PC-compatible computer with an IA-32 (32-bit) Intel Architecture processor or an

EM64T (64-bit) processor and at least 128 Mbytes of system memory (256 Mbytes

recommended)

• Hard disk drive with at least 50 Mbytes available free space

The supported operating systems for the MegaRAID Storage Manager software are as

follows:

• Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows XP,

Microsoft Vista and Microsoft Windows Server 2008.

• Red Hat Linux 3.0 or 4.0

• SUSE SLES 9, with latest updates and service packs

Refer to your server documentation and to the operating system documentation for

more information on hardware and operating system requirements.

8-3 Installing for Windows

Follow these steps if you need to install MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a

system running Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, or Microsoft

Windows XP:

1. Insert the MegaRAID Storage Manager software installation CD in the CD-ROM

drive.

If necessary, find and double-click the setup.exe file to start the installation program.

2. When the W

ELCOME screen appears, click NEXT.

If MegaRAID Storage Manager software is already installed on this system, the

ROGRAM MAINTENANCE screen appears. Read the screen text and select MODIFY,

EPAIR, or REMOVE.

3. When the next screen appears, read and accept the user license, and click NEXT.

The C

USTOMER INFORMATION screen appears.

4. Enter your user name and organization name, and in the bottom part of the screen,

select an installation option:

• If you select A

LL USERS, any user with administrative privileges can use this ver-

sion of MegaRAID Storage Manager software to view or change storage config-

urations.

• If you select O

NLY FOR CURRENT USER, the MegaRAID Storage Manager short-

cuts and associates icon availability to only the user with this screen’s user

name.

Click N

EXT to continue.