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Chapter 2 Installing StorNext File System
File System Requirements
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File System Requirements
To run StorNext File System, the metadata controller must meet all
operating system and hardware requirements.
Operating System
Requirements 2
The operating systems, releases and kernels, and hardware platforms
supported by StorNext SNFS are presented in
Table 7. Make sure the
MDC uses a supported operating system and platform, and if necessary
update to a supported release or kernel version before installing
StorNext.
Table 7 File System
Supported Platforms
Operating System Release or Kernel Platform
Windows 2003 Server SP2 x86 32-bit
x86 64-bit
Windows 2008 Server SP1 x86 32-bit
x86 64-bit
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 4
2.6.9-55.EL (Update 5)
2.6.9-67.EL (Update 6)
2.6.9-78.EL (Update 7)
x86 32-bit
x86 64-bit
Itanium 64-bit
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5
2.6.18-53.EL (Update 1)
2.6.18-92.EL (Update 2)
x86 64-bit
SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server 10
2.6.16.21-0.8
2.6.16.46-0.12 (SP1)
2.6.16-60-0.27 (SP2)
x86 32-bit
x86 64-bit
Itanium 64-bit
Sun Solaris 10 Generic 120011-14 SPARC 64-bit