Introduction : Hardware and Software Requirements

Hardware and Software Requirements

The hardware requirements for the MegaRAID Storage Manager software are as follows:

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PC-compatible computer with an IA‑32 (32‑bit) Intel Architecture processor or an EM64T (64‑bit) processor; also compatible with SPARC V9 architecture-based systems

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Minimum 256 Mbytes of system memory (512 Mbytes recommended)

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Drive with at least 400 Mbytes available free space; Solaris 10 SPARC requires a minimum of 640 Mbytes

The supported operating systems for the MegaRAID Storage Manager software are as follows:

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Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2008R2, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, and Microsoft Windows 7

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Red Hat Linux 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0

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Solaris 10 x86, SPARC

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SuSE Linux/SLES 9, 10, and 11, with the latest updates and service packs

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VMware ESX 4.0 and ESXi 4.1

Refer to your server documentation and to the operating system documentation for more information on hardware and operating system requirements.