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Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Deployment Guide
OL-21765-01, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.x
Chapter 1 Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Overview
• Historical performance monitoring
• Performance prediction
• Summary reports
• Detailed drill-down reports
• Continuous health and event monitoring
• Roaming user profiles
• Fabric analyzer integration
Requirements and Prerequisites
The following prerequisites are required to set up Server Federation:
Hardware Requirements, page 1-7
Software Requirements, page 1-7
Software Licensing Requirements, page 1-8
Hardware Requirements
CPU Requirements
Dedicated dual processors@ 2.0 GHz for Oracle DB
Storage Requirements
Data file= 2GB (min) 20GB (max)
Backup & Restore: 6GB config file for 100 switches
Memory Requirements
2 GB (SGA) for a large setup.
Connectivity Requirements
Support up to 100 concurrent connections to sustain up to 10 server nodes in federated mode.
Software Requirements
Operating Systems
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Windows 2003 SP2
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Windows XP SP2
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Windows XP SP3
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Windows Vista SP1 (Enterprise edition)
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Release 5
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Solaris (SPARC) 9 and 10
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VMWare ESX Server 3.5