ETERNUS SF Express V15.3/ Storage Cruiser V15.3/ AdvancedCopy Manager V15.3 Installation and Setup Guide

2.3.2 Software requirements

This section describes the following software requirements:

• Supported operating systems

• Essential software

• Incompatible software

  
  

2.3.2.1 Supported operating systems

The operating system of the server on which to install Storage Cruiser's agent must be one of the following.

For Windows environment

No.	Operating system name	Required Hotfix	Remarks
1	Windows Server 2012 Standard	-	*1, *2, *3
2	Windows Server 2012 Datacenter	-	*1, *2, *3
3	Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation SP1		*1, *3
4	Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard SP1	-	*1, *2, *3
5	Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise SP1	-	*1, *2, *3
6	Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter SP1	-	*1, *2, *3
7	Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation		*1, *3
8	Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard	-	*1, *2, *3
9	Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise	-	*1, *2, *3
10	Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter	-	*1, *2, *3
11	Windows Server 2008 Standard SP2 (32-bit)(64-bit)	-	*1, *2, *3
12	Windows Server 2008 Enterprise SP2 (32-bit)(64-bit)	-	*1, *2, *3
13	Windows Server 2008 Datacenter SP2 (32-bit)(64-bit)	-	*1, *2, *3
14	Windows Server 2008 Standard (32-bit)(64-bit)	-	*1, *2, *3
15	Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (32-bit)(64-bit)	-	*1, *2, *3
16	Windows Server 2008 Datacenter (32-bit)(64-bit)	-	*1, *2, *3
17	Windows Server 2008 Standard SP2 without Hyper-V (32-bit)(64-bit)	-	*1, *2
18	Windows Server 2008 Enterprise SP2 without Hyper-V (32-bit)(64-bit)	-	*1, *2
19	Windows Server 2008 Datacenter SP2 without Hyper-V (32-bit)(64-bit)	-	*1, *2
20	Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V (32-bit)(64-bit)	-	*1, *2
21	Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V (32-bit)(64-bit)	-	*1, *2
22	Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V (32-bit)(64-bit)	-	*1, *2
23	Windows Server 2003 R2, Standard Edition SP2	-	-
24	Windows Server 2003 R2, Standard x64 Edition SP2	-	*1
25	Windows Server 2003 R2, Enterprise Edition SP2	-	-
26	Windows Server 2003 R2, Enterprise x64 Edition SP2	-	*1
27	Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition SP2	-	-
28	Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition SP2	-	*1
29	Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition SP2	-	-
30	Windows Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition SP2	-	*1

*1: On 64-bit operating system, this product runs as a 32-bit application on the WOW64 (Windows 32-bit On Windows 64-bit) subsystem.
*2: The Server Core installation option is not supported.
*3: Guest OS is not supported in a Hyper-V environment.

For Solaris environment

No.	Operating system name	Required patch	Remarks
1	Solaris 9	Latest patch	-
2	Solaris 10	Latest patch	*1
3	Solaris 11 (11/11 or later)	-	*2

*1: Supported only within the global zone.
*2: Change the environment/TZ property of the svc:/system/environment:init SMF service instance of the operating system to the appropriate timezone name and refresh the service. After that, reboot the operating system.
Specify the appropriate timezone name to timeZoneName.

# svccfg -s svc:/system/environment:init setprop environment/TZ = timeZoneName
# svcadm refresh svc:/system/environment:init

For Linux environment

No.	Operating system name	Required patch	Remarks
1	Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v.4 for x86)	Bundle correction U05111 or later	-
2	Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v.4 for EM64T)	Bundle correction U05121 or later	*1
3	Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v.4 for x86)	Bundle correction U05111 or later	-
4	Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v.4 for EM64T)	Bundle correction U05121or later	*1
5	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (for x86)	-	-
6	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (for Intel64)	-	*2
7	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (for x86)	-	-
8	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (for Intel64)	-	*2
9	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1 for x86	-	-
10	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1 for EM64T	-	*2
11	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2 for x86	-	-
12	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2 for EM64T	-	*2

*1: Running as a 32-bit application
*2: Running as a 64-bit native application

For HP-UX environment

No.	Operating system name	Required patch	Remarks
1	HP-UX 11.0	Latest patch	*1
2	HP-UX 11i v1	Latest patch	*1
3	HP-UX 11i v2(PA-RISC)	Latest patch	*1
4	HP-UX 11i v2(Itanium)	Latest patch	*2
5	HP-UX 11i v3(PA-RISC)	Latest patch	*1
6	HP-UX 11i v3(Itanium)	Latest patch	*2

*1: Only HP 9000 servers
*2: Only HP Integrity servers

For VMware environment

No.	Operating system name	Required patch	Remarks
1	VMware Infrastructure 3 Foundation	-	*1
2	VMware Infrastructure 3 Standard	-	*1
3	VMware Infrastructure 3 Enterprise	-	*1

*1: Operation within a guest OS in a Virtual Machine (VM) environment is not supported.

For AIX environment

No.	Operating system name	Required patch	Remarks
1	AIX 5L 5.3	-	*1
2	AIX V6.1	-	-
3	AIX V7.1	-	-

*1: Technology level (TL) 7 or later is supported.

2.3.2.2 Essential software

For operating Storage Cruiser's agent, the following software is required.

For Windows, Solaris, Linux, VMware, and AIX environments

No.	Essential software name	Remarks
1	SNIA HBA API library	Necessary for managing RAID devices with Storage Cruiser. Prepare the required libraries for the HBA and OS versions being used. Additionally, the preparation methods vary depending on the HBA and driver versions. Refer to "6.1.3 SNIA HBA API library installation (HP-UX environment excluded)" for details.

For HP-UX environment

There is no essential software.

2.3.2.3 Incompatible software

Storage Cruiser's agent cannot be used on servers that have any of the following software installed.

For Windows environment

No.	Incompatible software name	Version / level	Remarks
1	Systemwalker Resource Coordinator	All	Excluding Systemwalker Resource Coordinator Virtual server Edition
2	Softek Storage Cruiser	All	-

For Solaris environment

No.	Incompatible software name	Version / level	Remarks
1	Systemwalker Resource Coordinator	All	-
2	Softek Storage Cruiser	All	-

For Linux environment

No.	Incompatible software name	Version / level	Remarks
1	Systemwalker Resource Coordinator	All	Excluding Systemwalker Resource Coordinator Virtual server Edition
2	Softek Storage Cruiser	All	-

For HP-UX environment

No.	Incompatible software name	Version / level	Remarks
1	Softek Storage Cruiser	All	-

For VMware environment

No.	Incompatible software name	Version / level	Remarks
1	Systemwalker Resource Coordinator	All	Excluding Systemwalker Resource Coordinator Virtual server Edition

For AIX environment

There is no incompatible software.