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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
Windows 2003 SP2
Windows XP SP2
Windows XP SP3
Windows Vista SP1 (Enterprise edition)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Release 5
Solaris (SPARC) 9 and 10
VMWare ESX Server 3.5