3 – System Requirements and Installation Checklist
System Requirements
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Step 5: Configure the Disks in the Operating System
When all hardware and configuration is complete for iSCSI subsystems, use the
appropriate operating system utilities to enable devices, assign drive letters or
logical names, initialize file systems, and so on, for each device or LUN on the
system.
System Requirements
For optimum performance, SANsurfer iSCSI HBA Manager requires the hardware
and software listed in this section:
“Hardware Requirements” on page 3-4
“Software Requirements” on page 3-5
“Supported QLogic HBAs” on page 3-6
Hardware Requirements
The minimum hardware requirements are as follows:
QLogic QLA4
xxx
iSCSI to PCI-X host bus adapters, see
“Supported QLogic
HBAs” on page 3-6
.
Single-processor or multiprocessor server or workstation:
Pentium
®
III with 450 MHz or greater for Windows 2000, Windows
Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Red Hat Linux,
SUSE Linux, or Solaris x86.
Sun™ Ultra™ 60 for Solaris SPARC.
iSCSI devices, such as disks. SANsurfer iSCSI HBA Manager supports
most iSCSI devices. For a complete list of devices, 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
64 MB of physical RAM are required to run SANsurfer iSCSI HBA Manager;
256 MB are recommended. Running with less memory can cause disk
swapping, which severely effects performance.
Video card capable of 256 colors (16K colors recommended) and a
minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels are required.
Approximately 100 MB of disk space.
About 150 MB of disk space.