FW 08.01.00 McDATA Sphereon 4500 Fabric Switch Installation and Service Manual (620-000159-330, November 2005)

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McDATA Sphereon 4500 Fabric Switch Installation and Service Manual
General Information
The server is rack mounted in the McDATA-supplied FC-512
Fabricenter equipment cabinet. A SANpilot interface or management
server is required to install, configure, and manage the switch.
The server provides two auto-detecting 10/100 Mbps Ethernet LAN
connectors (RJ-45 adapters). The first adapter (LAN 1) attaches
(optionally) to a public customer intranet to allow access from remote
user workstations. The second adapter (LAN 2) attaches to a private
LAN segment containing switches or managed products.
Management
Server
Specifications
This section summarizes minimum and recommended hardware
specifications for the rack-mount management server. Servers may
ship with more enhanced hardware, such as a faster processor,
additional random-access memory (RAM), or a higher-capacity hard
drive.
Minimum
Specifications
Minimum server specifications are:
• 1U rack-mount server running the Intel
®
Pentium
®
4 processor
with a 2 gigahertz (GHz) or greater clock speed, using the
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional (with service pack 4),
Windows XP Professional (with service pack 2), or Windows
Server 2003 operating system (Enterprise Edition with service
pack 1) operating system.
• TightVNC™ Viewer Version 1.2.7 client-server software control
package that provides remote network access (through a web
browser) to the management server desktop.
• 1,024 megabyte (MB) RAM.
• 40 gigabyte (GB) internal hard drive.
• 1.44 MB 3.5-inch slim-type disk drive.
• 24X read speed slim-type compact disk-rewritable (CD-RW)
and 8X read speed digital video disk (DVD) combination drive,
data only.
• 56K peripheral component interconnect (PCI) internal data and
fax modem, using the V .92 dial-up specification.
• 16 MB graphics card.
• Network interface card (NIC) with two 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
adapters using RJ-45 connectors.