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SANsurfer FC HBA Manager Readme Page 2 of 13
NOTE: The nn in the preceding file names represents the build number of the current
software release.
2 Requirements
This section defines the minimum hardware and software requirements.
2.1 Hardware Requirements
SANsurfer FC HBA Manager requires the following minimum hardware:
♦ One or more of the following QLogic adapters:
o 2400/2500 Series Fibre Channel Adapters
o 8100 Series Converged Network Adapters
♦ Single-processor or multiprocessor server or workstation:
o Pentium III with 450MHz or greater for Windows XP Professional, Windows
Vista, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Red Hat
or SLES Linux, Solaris x86, or NetWare
o Sun Ultra 60 for Solaris SPARC
o Power Mac G5 1.8MHz, Intel-based Xserve or Mac Pro or greater with 512MB
of memory
♦ Fibre Channel devices, such as disks and RAID subsystems. SANsurfer FC HBA
Manager supports most Fibre Channel devices. For a complete list of devices that
support failover, see the QLogic SAN Interoperability Guide, which you can download
from the following QLogic Web page:
http://www.qlogic.com/Interoperability/Pages/default.aspx
NOTE: Tape devices are shown as part of the configuration, but are not fully
supported. Only persistent binding and LUN masking are supported.
♦ 256 MB of physical RAM required to run SANsurfer FC HBA Manager; 512 MB
recommended. Running with less memory can cause disk swapping, which severely
affects performance.
♦ Video card capable of 256 colors and a screen resolution of 800 x 600 pixels
required; 16K colors and 1024 x 768 pixels recommended
♦ About 150Mb disk space
2.2 Software Requirements
SANsurfer FC HBA Manager requires the following minimum software:
♦ Common desktop environment (CDE) to run SANsurfer FC HBA Manager (graphical
user interface)
♦ QLogic 2400/2500 Series Fibre Channel drivers for your OS platform
♦ QLogic 8100 Series Converged Network Adapter driver for your OS platform