HP XP Racks - Manual (Page 5)

1 Installation requirements
This chapter describes the installation requirements for the RAID Manager (RAID Manager) software.
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:
•
RAID Manager software product. The RAID Manager software is supplied on CD-ROM.
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Host platforms: RAID Manager operations are supported on the following host platforms. For
details about supported OS versions, failover software, and logical volume manager software
see
Table 1 (page 7) .
◦ HP-UX
◦ Solaris, Solaris/x86
◦ AIX
◦ Tru64 UNIX
◦ DYNIX
◦ WindowsNT
◦ WindowsNT/x64
◦ Linux, Linux/IA64
◦ DYNIX/ptx
◦ IRIX
◦ z/Linux
The raidcom commands operations are supported on the following host platforms.
◦ HP-UX
◦ WindowsNT
◦ WindowsNT/x64
◦ Solaris, Solaris/x86
◦ AIX
◦ Linux, Linux/IA64
For details about the configuration setting command (raidcom command), see the HP XP7
RAID Manager User Guide and HP XP7 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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Required Memory Capacity for the host
This product requires static memory and dynamic memory for executing the load module.Static
memory capacity: 600KB min. to 1200KB max.Dynamic memory capacity: determined by
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