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Brocade Network Advisor SAN Installation and Migration Guide 5

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System requirements

Memory, host, and disk space requirements

Memory requirements are only applicable when there are no other applications running on the

Network Advisor server. Paging space should be equal to or exceed the physical memory size.

NOTE

It is recommended that you use FC storage.

NOTE

To manage more than 9000 SAN ports, you must have a 16 core processor.

NOTE

To efficiently manage more than 9000 SAN ports, it is recommended to allocate a minimum of 2 GB

client memory and 6 GB server memory.

NOTE

It is recommended that you add an additional 40 GB of disk space for the default temporary

directory.

NOTE

If you enable periodic supportSave or configure the Network Advisor server as the Upload Failure

Data Capture location for monitored switches, you must add additional disk space. Each switch

supportSave file is approximately 5 MB and each Upload Failure Data Capture file is approximately

500 KB. To determine the disk space requirements, multiply the frequency of scheduled

supportSave files by 5 MB and the expected Upload Failure Data Capture files by 500 KB before the

planned periodic purge activity.

Table 4 summarizes the memory, host, and disk space requirements for a remote client.

Table 5 summarizes the minimum system requirements for server (plus 1 client) installation.

TABLE 4 Memory, Host, and Disk space requirements for remote client

Resources Required

Installed Memory 4 GB

Processor Core Count 2

Disk Space 1 GB

TABLE 5 Minimum system requirements for server (plus 1 client) installation

Resources Professional Plus

or Enterprise Edition

Installed Memory 6 GB

Processor Core Count

(including physical and logical cores)

Disk Space 20 GB