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Brocade Network Advisor SAN Installation and Migration Guide 7
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System requirements
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Table 5 summarizes the minimum system requirements for server (plus 1 client) installation.
TABLE 5 Minimum system requirements for server (plus 1 client) installation
Resources Professional Edition Professional Plus 
or Enterprise Edition
Installed Memory 4 GB (32-bit) 
6 GB (64 bit)
6 GB
Processor Core
Count 
(including physical and logical cores)
2 2
Disk
Space 10 GB 20 GB
Table 6 summarizes the recommended system requirements for server (plus 1 client) installation.
TABLE 6 Recommended system requirements for server (plus 1 client) installation
Resources Small Medium Large
Installed Memory 16 GB 16 GB 16 GB
Processor Core
Count
(including physical and logical cores)
2 4 8
Disk
Space 20 GB 80 GB 100 GB
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 i
s 1 GB for minimum paging file size and 4
GB for maximum paging file size
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
NOTE
For networks with more than 9000 ports, the recommended memory allocation is 6 GB.