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6 Brocade Network Advisor SAN Installation and Migration Guide
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System requirements
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Table 6 summarizes the recommended system requirements for server (plus 1 client) installation.
NOTE
If you install Network Advisor in virtual machines (VM), it is recommended that you allocate
dedicated resources as detailed in
Table 6. If the resources are shared across multiple VMs, the
response time from Network Advisor may be slow.
Operating system cache requirements
It is recommended that you use the System managed size (the OS allocates the required cache);
however, if you choose to use a custom size, make sure you use the following memory settings for
your operating system.
The virtual memory requirements for Windows system is 1 GB for minimum paging file size and 4
GB for maximum paging file size
NOTE
For networks with more than 9000 ports, the recommended memory allocation is 6 GB.
Browser requirements
The launch of Network Advisor and the launch of Element Manager (Web Tools) from the
application are supported from the following browsers with a Java plug-in:
• Browsers
- Internet Explorer 11.0.9 update version RTM (Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008 R2,
Windows Server 2012 R2)
- Internet Explorer 10.0.9 update version RTM (Windows 2012)
- Firefox 24 and later on Windows or Linux
- Google Chrome 33 on Windows
TABLE 6 Recommended system requirements for server (plus 1 client) installation
Resources Small Medium Large
Installed Memory 16 GB 16 GB 16 GB
Intel Xeon E5 or E7 Processor Core Count
(including physical and logical cores)
2 4 8
Disk Space 50 GB 150 GB 300 GB
TABLE 7 Linux swap space requirements
Installed physical memory (RAM) size Recommended swap size
4 GB 4 GB
Greater than 4 GB and less than 8 GB Equal to the amount of RAM
Greater than or equal to 8 GB and less than 64 GB 5 time the amount of RAM