HP StorageWorks 8/20q Fibre Channel Switch Installation and Reference Guide 29
3 Installation
This section describes how to install and configure the switch.
Site requirements
Consider the following items when installing an 8/20q Fibre Channel Switch.
Management Station and Workstation requirements
The management station requirements for Simple SAN Connection Manager and Enterprise Fabric
Management Suite are described in Table 7. Workstation requirements for QuickTools are described in
Table 8.
Table 7 Management station requirements for Simple SAN Connection Managerand Enterprise Fabric
Management Suite
Operating System • Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows Storage Server 2003 R2
x64/x86 with SP2. This requires Microsoft hotfix QFE932755 (updated
Storport storage driver). The update is available on the Microsoft Web
site: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932755
• Windows Server 2008 x64/x86 with SP2
• Windows Server 2008 x64/x86 R2
Memory 2 GB
Disk Space • 200 MB of disk space for HP StorageWorks Simple SAN Connection
Manager software
• 150 MB of disk space for HP StorageWorks Enterprise Fabric
Management Suite
Processor 2 GHz or faster
Internet browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later
Netscape Navigator 6.0 and later
Firefox 1.5 and later
Java Runtime Environment 1.5 or higher
Hardware RJ-45 Ethernet port
Add RS-232 serial port (optional)
PCI-e slots for the HP StorageWorks PCI-e FC HBA
Table 8 Workstation requirements for QuickTools
Operating systems Windows XP SP1/SP2/SP3
Windows 2003 SP2
Windows 2008 SP2 and R2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, 10, and 11
Memory 512 MB
Processor 2 GHz or faster
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