HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring for Linux Evaluation Guide (T2558-96318, June 2009)

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Storage Mirroring
Setup
Your setup consists of two tasks: determining that your source and meet the system requirements
of this evaluation and performing the installation.
System requirements
Verify that each machine that will be used as a source or target meets the following system
requirements.
 Operating System—Make sure your servers meets the operating system requirements outlined
in the following table.
 System Memory—At a minimum, you should have 512 MB of memory on each server. Ideally,
you should have 1 GB.
NOTE: When evaluating you should install and evaluate it in a test environment. Do not use your
actual production servers because you will be forcing a failure during the evaluation.
Physical Servers and
Guest Operating
Systems
Kernel
Version
Kernel Type
File
System
Platforms
 Red Hat
®
Enterprise
Linux 4.5 through 4.7
for 32-bit architecture
 CentOS 4 Updates 5-7
for 32-bit architecture
2.6.9.x.x
 Default
 SMP
 HugeMem
 Ext2
 Ext3
 VMware
®
 Microsoft
Virtual Server
 Xen
®
 Virtual Iron
®
 Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 4.5 through 4.7
for 64-bit architecture
 CentOS 4 Updates 5-7
for 64-bit architecture
 Default
 SMP
 LargeSMP
 Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.0 through 5.2
for 32-bit architecture
 CentOS 5 GA-Update 2
for 32-bit architecture
2.6.18.x.x
 Default (SMP)
 Xen
 PAE
 Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.0 through 5.2
for 64-bit architecture
 CentOS 5 GA-Update 2
for 64-bit architecture
 Default (SMP)
 Xen
SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server 10.2 for 32-bit
architec
ture
2.6.16.x.x
 Default
 SMP
 BigSMP
 Xen
 XenPAE
 Ext2
 Ext3
 ReiserFS
 VMware
®
 Microsoft
Virtual Server
 Xen
®
 Virtual Iron
®
SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server 10.2 for 64-bit
architecture
 Default
 SMP
 Xen