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2 Brocade Network Advisor SAN Installation and Migration Guide
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System requirements
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Server and client operating system requirements
Table 2 summarizes the required operating system (OS) for servers and the packages supported by
each OS version.
NOTE
It is recommended that you run Network Advisor on a dedicated machine to avoid conflicts with other
applications that use the same resources and ports (such as SNMP, web server, and so on).
NOTE
Enterprise edition and Professional Plus edition are not supported on 32-bit operating systems. You
must migrate to a 64-bit operating system.
NOTE
If the required operating system is not available, a warning message displays during installation.
TABLE 2 Server operating system requirements
Operating
system
Version Guest OS version Supported packages
Windows
®
- 2008 R2 Data Center Edition (x86 64-bit)
- 2008 R2 Standard Edition (x86 64-bit)
- 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition (x86 64-bit)
- 2012 Data Center Edition (x86 64-bit)
- 2012 Standard Edition (x86 64-bit)
- 2012 R2 Data Center Edition (x86 64-bit)
- 2012 R2 Standard Edition (x86 64-bit)
- 8 Enterprise (x86 64-bit)
- 8.1 Enterprise (x86 64-bit)
SAN with SMI Agent
SMI Agent only
Linux
®
- RedHat Enterprise 6.3 Advanced (x86 64-bit)
- RedHat Enterprise 6.4 Advanced (x86 64-bit)
- RedHat Enterprise 6.5 Advanced (x86 64-bit)
- SuSE Enterprise Server 11.3 (x86 64-bit)
- Oracle Enterprise 6.3 (x86 64-bit)
- Oracle Enterprise 6.4 (x86 64-bit)
- Oracle Enterprise 6.5 (x86 64-bit)
SAN with SMI Agent
SMI Agent only
Guest VMs - VMware
®
ESX Server i 5.1
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- Microsoft Hyper-V (Hyper-V Server 2008 R2,
Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2
Data Center)
- KVM (RH 6.5)
Supports all server OS versions
available for Windows and Linux.
Supports all packages available
for Windows and Linux.
1. It is recommended that you run all IBM Network Advisor virtual CPUs on a single physical CPU.