Installation guide

112 EMC NetWorker Release 8.1 SP1 Installation Guide
Microsoft Windows Installation
Installing NetWorker and Console software on Windows
This section describes the requirements and tasks for installing the NetWorker and the
Console server software on Windows. The installer provides the ability to install both
applications simultaneously.
Before installing the NetWorker software, review the following sections:
◆ “Installation roadmap” on page 14
◆ “Software Requirements” on page 25
Complete these tasks to install the NetWorker software:
◆ “Reviewing the NetWorker software requirements” on page 112
◆ “Installing the NetWorker software” on page 114
◆ “Adjusting antivirus software settings” on page 118
Reviewing the NetWorker software requirements
Review the information in this section before you install NetWorker on the Windows 2008,
or the Windows 2003 operating systems.
◆ “General considerations” on page 112
◆ “Package disk space requirements” on page 112
◆ “Location and disk space requirements” on page 113
◆ “Windows 2012 considerations” on page 113
◆ “Windows 2008 requirements” on page 113
◆ “Windows 2003 Considerations” on page 114
◆ “NetWorker server and storage node tape device requirements” on page 114
General considerations
Consider the following before installing the NetWorker 8.1.x software on a Windows host:
◆ You cannot recover backups performed by using NetWorker 8.1.x to a pre-NetWorker
8.1 client.
◆ When the NetWorker software is installed on a File Allocation Table (FAT) partition, do
not disable long name support.
◆ InstallShield stores the entire installation program in memory, even to install a single
NetWorker software component.
◆ Install the latest Microsoft Windows update and critical patches.
Package disk space requirements
Download the NetWorker software package from the EMC Online Support Site and extract
the packages to a temporary location on the target host.
Ensure that there is sufficient disk space on the host to contain both the compressed
NetWorker software package and the fully uncompressed files.