Users Guide

2–Installing and Launching
Before You Begin
Doc No. TD-000971 Rev. 1
January 29, 2021 Page 11 Copyright © 2021 Marvell
 For managing iSCSI on Linux hosts, Open-iSCSI and SCSI generic (sg)
utilities installed on the Linux host.
 For managing FCoE on Linux hosts, Open-FCoE installed on the Linux host.
 To discover FCoE LUNs on Linux hosts, sg3_utils RPM installed on Linux
host.
 The appropriate QLMAPI module.
Hardware Requirements
The minimum hardware requirement for hosts include:
 One or more Marvell FastLinQ 41000/45000 Series Adapters and adapters
based on 578xx controllers.
 Single or multiprocessor system: Pentium III with 450MHz or greater to
install the QCS CLI client software component.
For a list of supported operating systems, see the QCS CLI readme.txt file.
 Video card capable of handling 256K colors and screen resolution of
800×600 pixel required; 16K colors and 1024 ×768 pixels is recommended.
 About 200MB of disk space
Software Requirements
QLogic Control Suite CLI requires no specific software components. All required
software components are included in the QCS CLI installer package and are
installed as part of the installation.
Server Agent Requirements
Multiple operating system support allows control of heterogeneous environments.
The QConvergeConsole GUI server agent works with the following OSs:
 CentOS
®
 Citrix XenServer
®
 Microsoft Windows Server
 Novell
®
SLES
 Oracle
®
Linux—Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK)
 Red Hat Linux Advanced Server and Enterprise Server
 Ubuntu
®
Server
NOTE
For details on OS versions, see the QConvergeConsole Read Me, which
you can download from the Marvell Web site (see “” on page xiii).