Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide 3
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System requirements 1
Table 5 summarizes the required OS for clients. Network Advisor clients are supported on 32-bit
and 64-bit Windows and Linux systems.
NOTE
If you are managing more than 9000 SAN ports or 200 IP devices, the client is not supported on
32-bit systems.
Linux®-RedHat Enterprise 6.1 Advanced (x86 32-bit)
-RedHat Enterprise 6.2 Advanced (x86 32-bit)
-RedHat Enterprise 6.3 Advanced (x86 32-bit)
-RedHat Enterprise 6.4 Advanced (x86 32-bit)
-RedHat Enterprise 6.5 Advanced (x86 32-bit)
-RedHat Enterprise 7.0 Advanced (x86 32-bit)
-SuSE Enterprise Server 11.3 (x86 32-bit)
-Oracle Enterprise 6.1 (x86 32-bit)
-Oracle Enterprise 6.2 (x86 32-bit)
-Oracle Enterprise 6.3 (x86 32-bit)
-Oracle Enterprise 6.4 (x86 32-bit)
-Oracle Enterprise 6.5 (x86 32-bit)
SAN with SMI Agent Professional
IP only Professional
SMI Agent only
-RedHat Enterprise 6.1 Advanced (x86 64-bit)
-RedHat Enterprise 6.2 Advanced (x86 64-bit)
-RedHat Enterprise 6.3 Advanced (x86 64-bit)
-RedHat Enterprise 6.4 Advanced (x86 64-bit)
-RedHat Enterprise 6.5 Advanced (x86 64-bit)
-RedHat Enterprise 7.0 Advanced (x86 64-bit)
-SuSE Enterprise Server 11.3 (x86 64-bit)
-Oracle Enterprise 6.1 (x86 64-bit)
-Oracle Enterprise 6.2 (x86 64-bit)
-Oracle Enterprise 6.3 (x86 64-bit)
-Oracle Enterprise 6.4 (x86 64-bit)
-Oracle Enterprise 6.5 (x86 64-bit)
SAN with SMI Agent
IP only
SMI Agent only
SAN with SMI Agent + IP
Guest VMs -VMware® ESXi 5.11
-VMware® ESXi 5.5
-Microsoft Hyper-V (Hyper-V Server 2008 R2,
Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012
R2 Data Center)
-KVM (RH 6.5)
Supports all server OS
versions available for
Windows and Linux.
Supports all packages available for
Windows and Linux.
1. It is recommended that you run all Network Advisor virtual CPUs on a single physical CPU.
TABLE 4 Server operating system requirements (Continued)
Operating system Version Guest OS version Supported packages