Q-Logic SN0054651-00 F 3

SN0054651-00 F 3-1

3System Requirements

For optimum performance, the SANsurfer FC HBA Manager requires the

hardware and software listed in this section:

“Hardware Requirements” on page3-1

“Software Requirements” on page3-2

“Supported QLogic Adapters” on page 3-4

The minimum hardware requirements are as follows:

QLogic QLx2xxx PCI to Fibre Channel adapters or QLE8042 converged

network adapters (see “Supported QLogic Adapters” on page3-4).

Single-processor or multiprocessor server or workstation:

Pentium® III with 1GHz or greater for Windows XP Professional,

Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows

Server 2008, Red Hat/SUSE Linux, Solaris x86, or NetWare.

Sun™ Ultra™ 60 for Solaris SPARC.

Power Mac® G5 1.8 MHz or greater with 512 MB of memory, or Mac

with Intel processor 2.0 GHz or greater with 1 GB of memory.

FC devices, such as disks and RAID subsystems. SANsurfer FC HBA

Manager supports most FC devices. For a complete list of devices that

support failover, see the QLogic SAN Interoperability Guide, which can be

downloaded from the QLogic Web site (you will be asked to provide your

e-mail address):

http://connect.qlogic.com/interopguide/Interoperability.asp

256 MB of physical RAM is required to run the SANsurfer FC HBA Manager;

512 MB is recommended. Running with less memory can cause disk

swapping, which severely affects performance.

NOTE:

Tape devices are displayed as part of the configuration, but are not

fully supported by SANsurfer (only LUN masking).