System requirements

3Perform the installation using any of the methods described in “Installation methods” on page 27.

4Perform the post-installation tasks as described in Chapter 3, “Post- Installation Tasks.”

System requirements

Check to make sure your system has the required version-level, RAM, and network-protocol requirements for Adaptive Server. See the release bulletin for your platform the latest information about required system patches.

Table 2-1: Server system requirements

 

Hardware

Operating system

Supported protocols

 

 

 

HP9000/700, or HP9000/800, or 64-bit HP9000

HP-UX 11.i running 64-bit

SPX or TCP

D, K, V Series, (The PA8000 chip is required.)

runtime kernel

 

 

 

 

HP

HP-UX 11iV2

SPX or TCP

 

 

 

HPIA64, Intel Architecture-64 Itanium

HPUX B.11.23

SPX or TCP

Table 2-2: Disk space requirements for HP-UX 64-bit PA RISC platforms

Product

Disk space requirements

 

 

Adaptive Server typical install

700MB

 

 

Default databases created during install

150MB

 

 

Total

1040MB

Table 2-3: Disk space requirements for HP-UX 64-bit Itanium platform

Product

Disk space requirements

 

 

Adaptive Server typical install

700MB

 

 

Default databases created during install

150MB

 

 

Total

1040MB

 

Table 2-4: Server system requirements

 

 

Operating system

Hardware

Supported protocols

 

 

 

 

 

Windows 2000 Pro, Server,

Intel Pentium III 600 MHz or higher

TCP

Adv.Server and DataCenter

AMD Athlon 1 GHz or higher

IPX/SPX

 

Edition SP4 or higher

• Named pipes (not supported for LDAP server connections

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