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Web browser. Use one of the following.
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Firefox 3.6 or later
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Internet Explorer 7 or later
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Chrome 16.0 or later
Flash Player 10.1 or later is required.
The Data Director UI requires a minimum monitor resolution of 1024x768.
The following are the minimum requirements for Data Director.
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2 ESXi servers with 12GB of RAM combined.
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1 vCenter Server system (can be running on a virtual machine).
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1 Windows system for running vSphere Client.
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40GB of shared storage, configured as two datastores.
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1 Gigabit Ethernet VLAN.
This VLAN will carry Data Director network traffic.
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One or more Gigabit Ethernet VLANs for one or more database networks.
Database networks carry SQL traffic to and from Data Director databases. Database clients such as JDBC
and libpq send and receive SQL traffic from database servers on these networks. Data Director supports
multiple database networks for better network isolation, for example, to isolate QA SQL traffic from
production SQL traffic. See Chapter 2, “Planning the Network Configuration,” on page 13.
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Hardware to run the test application.
Check with your company's network administrators or IT staff to determine a setup that is appropriate for
your organization. For example, one possible setup for a 4-VLAN configuration is as follows.
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4 ESXi servers with 64GB of RAM combined.
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1 vCenter Server.
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1 Windows system for running vSphere Client.
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500GB of shared storage configured as two or more datastores.
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4 Gigabit Ethernet VLANs.
These Gigabit Ethernet VLANs will carry Data Director network traffic.
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One or more Gigabit Ethernet VLANs for one or more database networks.
Database networks will carry SQL traffic to and from Data Director databases. Database clients such as
JDBC and libpq send and receive SQL traffic from database servers on these networks. Data Director
supports multiple database networks for better network isolation, for example, to isolate QA SQL traffic
from production SQL traffic. See Chapter 2, “Planning the Network Configuration,” on page 13.
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Hardware to run the test application
Data Director licensing supports up to 8 vCPUs.
Data Director provides several database configuration templates in different sizes: tiny, small, medium, large,
and giant. You can estimate the resources that your Data Director deployment requires based on your
installation's expected database sizes. For example, a database instance that uses the Tiny database
configuration template has the following settings.
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