HP XP P9500 Storage - Manual (Page 5)

1 Installation requirements
NOTE: The raidcom commands described in this guide are supported only on the P9000 disk
arrays. All other commands are supported on both the P9000 and the XP24000/XP20000,
XP12000/XP10000, SVS200, and XP1024/XP128 disk arrays.
The GUI illustrations in this guide were created using a Windows computer with the Internet Explorer
browser. Actual windows may differ depending on the operating system and browser used. GUI
contents also vary with licensed program products, storage system models, and firmware versions.
This chapter describes Installation requirements.
System requirements
RAID Manager operations involve the RAID Manager software on the UNIX/PC server host, the
command device(s) on the RAID storage system(s), and the logical volumes on the RAID storage
system(s).
The system requirements for RAID Manager are:
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RAID Manager software product. The RAID Manager software is supplied on CD-ROM or
diskette. The RAID Manager software files take up 2.5 MB of space. The log files can take up
to 3 MB of space.
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Host platforms. RAID Manager is supported on the following host platforms. See Table 2 (page
7) – Table 10 (page 12) for detailed information on supported OS versions.
◦ Solaris, Solaris/x86
◦ HP-UX
◦ AIX
◦ Linux, Linux/IA64
◦ VMware
◦ Windows
◦ OpenVMS, OpenVMS/IA
◦ DYNIX/ptx
◦ IRIX
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The configuration setting command (raidcom command) supports the following host platforms:
HP-UX ◦
◦ Windows NT
◦ Windows NT/x64
◦ Solaris
◦ Solaris/x86
◦ AIX
◦ Linux
◦ Linux/IA64
For details about the configuration setting command (raidcom command), see the HP P9000
RAID Manager User Guide and the HP P9000 RAID Manager Reference Guide.
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Host access: Root/administrator access to the host is required to perform RAID Manager
operations.
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