Introduction : Hardware and Software Requirements

Hardware and Software Requirements

The hardware requirements for the MegaRAID Storage Manager software are as follows:

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PC-compatible computer with an IA-32 (32-bit) Intel Architecture processor or an EM64T (64-bit) processor; also

compatible with SPARC V9 architecture-based systems

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Minimum 256 MB of system memory (512 MB recommended)

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Drive with at least 400 MB of free space available; Solaris™ 10 X86 and Solaris™ 10 SPARC, Solaris™ 11 X86 and

Solaris™ 11 SPARC requires a minimum of 640 MB

The supported operating systems for the MegaRAID Storage Manager software are as follows:

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Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, and Microsoft Windows 8

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 5.8, 6.0, and 6.3

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Solaris 10 x86, Solaris 10 SPARC, Solaris 11 x86, and Solaris 11 SPARC

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SuSE Linux/SLES 9, 10, 11, and 11 SP2 with the latest updates and service packs

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VMware ESX 4.0, and 4.1

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VMware ESXi 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, and 5.1

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Citrix XenServer 6.0

Refer to your server documentation and to the operating system (OS) documentation for more information on hardware and operating system requirements.