Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide v12.0.0 (53-1002699-01, April 2013)

2 Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide
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System requirements
1
Server and Client operating system requirements
Table 4 summarizes the required Operating Systems (OS) for servers and the packages supported
by each OS version.
NOTE
Large installations (SAN with SMI Agent or IP only) are only supported on 64-bit Windows
®
operating
systems.
NOTE
SAN with SMI Agent + IP is not supported on 32-bit Windows operating systems.
Table 5 summarizes the required OS for clients.
TABLE 4 Server operating system requirements
Operating
system
Version Guest OS version Supported packages
Windows - 2003 Server SP2 (x86 32-bit)
- 2008 Server (x86 32-bit)
- XP Professional SP3 (x86 32-bit)
- 7 Professional (x86 32-bit)
SAN with SMI Agent
IP only
SMI Agent only
- 2008 R2 Data Center Edition
(x86 64-bit)
- 2008 R2 Standard Edition
(x86 64-bit)
- 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition
(x86 64-bit)
SAN with SMI Agent
IP only
SMI Agent only
SAN with SMI Agent + IP
Linux
®
- RedHat Enterprise 6.1 Advanced
Platform (x86 32-bit)
- SuSE Enterprise Server 11
(x86 32-bit)
- Oracle Enterprise 6.1 (x86 32-bit)
SAN with SMI Agent
IP only
SMI Agent only
SAN with SMI Agent + IP
Guest VMs - VMware
®
ESX Server i 5.0
1
- Microsoft Hyper-V (Hyper-V Server
2008 R2 SP1)
- KVM
1. It is recommended that you run all Network Advisor virtual CPUs on a single physical CPU.
Supports all server OS ver-
sions available for Windows
and Linux.
Supports all packages avail-
able for Windows and Linux.
TABLE 5 Client operating system requirements
Operating
system
Version Guest OS version
Windows - 2003 Server SP2 (x86 32-bit)
- 2008 Server (x86 32-bit)
- XP Professional SP3 (x86 32-bit)
- 7 Professional (x86 32-bit)