Hardware and Software Requirements
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> Hardware and Software Requirements

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

> | 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

> | Minimum 256 MB of system memory (512 MB recommended)

> | A hard drive with at least 400 MB available free space; Solaris® 10 X86 and Solaris® 10 SPARC, Solaris® 11 X86, and Solaris® 11 SPARC requires a minimum of 640 MB.

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

> | Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Windows® XP, Microsoft Windows Vista®, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows 8, Microsoft Windows 8.1, and Microsoft Windows Server 2012.

> NOTE Support of the SNMP Agent is deprecated during the default installation of the MegaRAID Storage Manager software on Microsoft Windows 8.1, Microsoft Windows 2012, and later versions. However, in a custom installation, if you select SNMP as one of the utilities, the SNMP Agent gets installed.

> | Red Hat® Linux (RHEL) 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10, 6.0, and 7.0. The MegaRAID Storage Manager software supports a 64-bit environment from RHEL 6 onwards.

> | Solaris 10 x86, Solaris SPARC, Solaris 11 x86, and Solaris 11 SPARC

> | SUSE® Linux/SLES 9, 10, 11, 11 SP2, and 11 SP3 with the latest updates and service packs

> | VMware® ESX 4.0 and 4.1

> | VMware ESXi 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.0 Update 2, 5.1, 5.1 Update 1, and 5.5

> | Citrix® XenServer® 6.0

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

> NOTE The MegaRAID Storage Manager software is supported in the Network Address Translation (NAT) environment also. If the server is installed in a remote machine and you want to connect to that server over a NAT environment, through a remote client, you can connect to the remote server by providing the NAT IP address.

> NOTE The MegaRAID Storage Manager software uses the local IP address in the same subnet as the SMTP server to deliver email notifications to the SMTP server.

> You can use the MegaRAID Storage Manager software to remotely monitor the systems running the VMware ESXi (3.5 and above) operating system.

> NOTE Storelib libraries need the capability to be installed with more than one version. All the storelib libraries have been moved to a private location. Perform a clean uninstallation, and only then install the MegaRAID Software Manager to avoid any conflicts.

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