External Storage System Overview  
▄ Cisco ASR 5000 Series Product Overview 
Important:  It is recommended that you have separate interfaces (in IPMP) for mediation 
device and chassis. Also, for given IPMP, the two interfaces should be on different cards. 
  Operating Environment: 
  Sun Solaris 9 with Solaris Patch dated January 25, 2005 
  Sun Solaris 10 with Solaris Patch number 137137-09 dated on or after July 16, 2007 to Nov 2008. 
  PSMON (installed through ESS installation script) 
  Perl 5.8.5 (installed through ESS installation script) 
- or -  
  Sun Microsystems Netra™ X4450 server for L-ESS 
  Quad-Core Intel Xeon E7340 (2x4MB L2, 2.40 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) 
  32 GB RAM 
  12 x 300 GB 10000 RPM mirrored SAS disks 
  Four 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports, 2 PCI-X, 8 PCIe 
  4 redundant AC power supplies 
  INtelx64 core 4 socket 
  Operating Environment: 
  Sun Solaris 10 
Important:  For information on which server to be used for L-ESS application, contact your local sales 
representative. 
 
Minimum System Recommendations for Cluster Deployment of L-ESS 
  Sun Microsystems Netra™ T5220 server 
  1 x 1.2GHz 4 core UltraSPARC T2 processor with 8GB RAM 
  2 x 146GB SAS hard drives 
  Quad Gigabit Ethernet interfaces 
Important:  It is recommended that you have separate interfaces (in IPMP) for mediation 
device and chassis. Also, for given IPMP, the two interfaces should be on different cards. 
  Internal CDROM drive 
  AC or DC power supplies depending on your application 
  Fiber channel (FC) based Common Storage System for Servers (Sun Storage Tek 2540) 
  PCI Dual FC 4GB HBA 
  Dual RAID Controllers