Hitachi SVP F 00 Series - Chapter 5: Installing the SVP Software on a Customer-Supplied Server; Minimum Requirements for Installing the SVP Software on Customer-Supplied Server; Setting up the SVP Locale

Chapter 5: Installing the SVP software on a
customer-supplied server
The SVP provides out‑of‑band conguration and management of the storage system, and
collects performance data for key components to enable diagnostic testing and analysis.
To meet the SVP requirement for VSP Gx00 models and VSP Fx00 models, Hitachi
Vantara supports bare-metal SVP installations.
Minimum requirements for installing the SVP software on
customer-supplied server
Hitachi Vantara allows the SVP software to be installed on customer-supplied servers
that meet the following minimum requirements.
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Processor:
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One core with hyper-threading, two cores without hyper-threading
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Processor performance comparable to Celeron 1.6 GHz
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Random-access memory: 3.5 GB per storage system
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Hard drive: 120 GB per storage system
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LAN connection: one 1000Base-T
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Windows 7 Professional (64-bit), Windows Server 2012 (64-bit), Windows Server 2012
R2 (64-bit), Windows Server 2016, Windows 10 Professional (64-bit), or Windows 10
Enterprise (64-bit)
Note: The customer-supplied server running the Windo
ws operating system
cannot be used with the storage system if it belongs to dierent subnets, and
if a router or a rewall is ltering packets according to a dened condition.
There is not a limit for distance between the server running the SVP
application and storage array being managed if they belong to the same
subnet.
Setting up the SVP locale
The SVP and stor
age management software support the English and Japanese languages.
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