Quantum 3.5 manual Storage Manager System Requirements, Operating System Requirements

Chapter 1 Installing StorNext File System and Storage Manager

Storage Manager System Requirements

Storage Manager System Requirements

Operating System Requirements

To run StorNext File System and Storage Manager, the metadata controller must meet all operating system, hardware, and LAN requirements.

The operating systems, kernel versions, and hardware platforms supported by StorNext SNFS and SNSM are presented in Table 1. Make sure the MDC uses a supported operating system and platform, and if necessary update to a supported kernel version before installing StorNext.

Table 1 Storage Manager Supported Platforms

Hardware Requirements

Operating System	Kernel	Platform
Red Hat® Enterprise	2.6.18-53.EL (Update 1)	x86 64-bit
Linux® 5	2.6.18-92.EL (Update 2)
SUSETM Linux	2.6.16-46-0.12 (SP1)	x86 64-bit
Enterprise Server 10	2.6.16-60-0.27 (SP2)

The minimum amount of RAM and available hard disk space required to run StorNext SNFS and SNSM are presented in Table 2. Because support files (such as database and journal files) are stored on the MDC, the amount of local disk space that is required increases with the number of data files stored on StorNext file systems.

If necessary, upgrade the RAM and local disk storage in the MDC to meet the minimum requirements before installing StorNext.

Note: The RAM requirements in Table 2 are for running StorNext File System and Storage Manager only. Running additional software (including the StorNext client software) requires additional RAM.

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