Brocade Communications Systems 6505, 8000, 6520 EZSwitchSetup software and hardware requirements

1 EZSwitchSetup software and hardware requirements

NOTE

Although your switch may have advanced capabilities, EZSwitchSetup is for a single-switch fabric with FC ports only. To configure and manage other features on your switch, use the command line interface, Web Tools, or Brocade Network Advisor.

EZSwitchSetup software and hardware requirements

You can run EZSwitchSetup on a SAN host computer or you can use a different computer that is not part of the SAN, such as a laptop.

EZSwitchSetup requires a browser that conforms to HTML version 4.0 and JavaScript version 1.0. The EZSwitchSetup installation CD automatically installs the correct Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for the disk-based installation wizard. This does not affect any pre-installed JREs, but other program components launched from the switch require Oracle JRE 1.7.0_9 or higher installed on the host.

EZSwitchSetup is supported on the platforms shown in Table 1.

TABLE 1	Supported platforms
Operating system		Browser	JRE version
SUSE Linux Enterprise 11		Firefox 12	Oracle JRE 1.7.0_9
Linux Red Hat 9		Mozilla	Oracle JRE 1.7.0_9
Windows 7 Professional (x86)		Internet Explorer 9.0	Oracle JRE 1.7.0_9
		Internet Explorer 8.0
		Firefox 12
Windows Server 2008 Standard		Internet Explorer 9.0	Oracle JRE 1.7.0_9
		Internet Explorer 8.0
		Firefox 12
Windows 2003 Server, SP2		Internet Explorer 9.0	Oracle JRE 1.7.0_9
		Internet Explorer 8.0
		Firefox 12
Windows XP, SP3		Internet Explorer 9.0	Oracle JRE 1.7.0_9
		Internet Explorer 8.0
		Firefox 12

The minimum hardware requirements for a Windows system are as follows:

•90 MB of hard drive space for the EZSwitchSetup installation directory.

•512 MB or more RAM for fabrics containing up to 15 switches.

•A minimum of 8 MB of video RAM is also recommended.

•An Ethernet port.

•A serial (COM) port if you plan to connect to the serial port on the switch.

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