Installation guide

66 EMC NetWorker Release 8.1 SP1 Installation Guide
AIX Installation
Installing NetWorker on AIX
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 operating system requirements for AIX” on page 66
◆ “Changing the default directory locations” on page 67
◆ “Installing the NetWorker software on AIX” on page 68
Reviewing the operating system requirements for AIX
This section describes the NetWorker software considerations for the AIX operating
system.
In NetWorker 8.1 and later the NetWorker software does not support AIX 5.x.
Before installing the NetWorker software, review the operating system and IPv4
considerations:
◆ “Packages disk space requirements for AIX” on page 66
◆ “AIX 6.1 requirements” on page 66
◆ “IPV4 requirements” on page 66
Packages disk space requirements for AIX
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. The compressed package
is 235 MB and the uncompressed size is 663 MB.
AIX 6.1 requirements
On AIX 6.1, system limits or memory management issues can cause core dumps and
performance degradation during NetWorker operations.
To prevent these issues on AIX 6.1 TL04, install the hot fix for AIX APAR IZ65501.
IPV4 requirements
The default behavior of the AIX name resolver is to look up both the IPv4 and the IPv6
addresses for a host. If either address fails to resolve locally, the operating system
requests the address from the DNS Server. If you did not configure IPv6 addressing, then
the DNS Server request will time out and return a failure message. If the time out wait time
is too long, some NetWorker commands can have a delayed response and time out.