3–Installation

Site Requirements

Fabric Management Workstation

The requirements for fabric management workstations running Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007 are described in Table 3-1:

Table 3-1. Management Workstation Requirements

Operating System

Windows® 2003 and XP SP1/SP2

 

Solaris™ 9,10, and 10 x86

 

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 4, 5

 

SUSE™ Linux Enterprise Server 9, 10

 

Mac® OS X 10.4, 10.5

 

 

Memory

512 MB minimum; 1GB or more is recommended

 

 

Disk Space

150 MB per installation of Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007

 

 

 

Processor

1

GHz or faster

 

 

Hardware

CD-ROM drive, RJ-45Ethernet port, RS-232 serial port (optional)

 

 

Internet Browser

Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 6.0 and later

 

Netscape® Navigator® 6.0 and later

 

FireFox® 1.5 and later

 

Safari® 1.0 and later (Windows and Mac OS)

 

Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment 1.4.2 and later

 

 

to support the QuickTools web applet

 

 

 

Telnet workstations require an RJ-45 Ethernet port and an operating system with a Telnet client.

Switch Power Requirements

Power requirements are 10 Amps at 100 VAC or 4.2 Amps at 240 VAC.

Environmental Conditions

Consider the factors that affect the climate in your facility such as equipment heat dissipation and ventilation. The switch requires the following operating conditions:

Operating temperature range: 0–40°C (32–104°F)

Relative humidity: 15–80%, non-condensing

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