User`s guide

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Section 4
System Requirements
The SANblade Manager application requires the hardware and software listed in
this section for optimum performance.
4.1
Hardware Requirements
The minimum hardware requirements are as follows:
■ QLogic QLA2xxx PCI to Fibre Channel adapters (see section 4.3)
■ Single-processor or multiprocessor server or workstation:
❑ Pentium III with 450 MHz or greater for Windows NT, Windows 2000, and
NetWare
❑ Pentium II with 233 MHz or greater for Red Hat Linux
❑ Sun Ultra 10 for Solaris SPARC
■ Fibre Channel devices, such as disks and RAID subsystems.
NOTE: Tape devices are displayed as part of the configuration, but are not
supported by SANblade Manager (no support for failover, load
balancing, LUN masking, or diagnostics).
■ 64 MBs of physical RAM are required to run SANblade Manager; 128 MBs are
recommended. Running with less memory can cause disk swapping, which
severely effects performance.
■ Video card capable of 256 colors and a screen resolution of 800×600 pixels are
required; 16K colors and 1024×768 pixels are recommended.
■ About 70 MBs of disk space