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16 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview
2.1 Prerequisites
This section lists the requirements and pre-requisites for the hardware and
software appliance. The hardware appliance is required for all midrange and
high-end systems (POWER6 technology based 550 server and higher, and
POWER7 technology-based 750 servers and higher).
2.1.1 Hardware appliance
The hardware appliance comes preloaded on IBM x86 hardware (7042-CR6).
The hardware appliance consists of a virtual image (guest) that resides on a Red
Hat linux (host), as shown in Figure 1-4 on page 8. The host hypervisor is
transparent and does not require user interaction. The requirements for both the
host and the guest are defined in Table 2-1.
Table 2-1 Hardware appliance requirements
2.1.2 Software appliance
The software appliance is only supported on IBM x86 hardware. The software
appliance also consists of a host/guest system; the hardware requirements are
listed in Table 2-2. The CPU and memory parameters for the guest configuration
(the virtual machine) should be reserved for use of the software appliance; the
parameters for the host configuration (the hardware) are used for both the
hypervisor and software appliance together and should meet the minimum
requirements.
Table 2-2 Software appliance hardware requirements
Host configuration 򐂰 4-core CPU (Intel® Nehalem architecture)
򐂰 8 GB RAM
򐂰 Two 500 GB disks (with RAID 0)
򐂰 Two network interface cards (NIC) minimum
Guest configuration 򐂰 Four virtual CPUs
򐂰 6 GB RAM
򐂰 500 GB disk
򐂰 Two to four network interface cards (NIC)
Host configuration 򐂰 4-core CPU (Intel Nehalem architecture or better)
򐂰 8 GB RAM
򐂰 500 GB of disk space
򐂰 Between one and four Ethernet adapters