HP NetServer AA 4000, Installation Manual

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Installation Requirements
To complete the Endurance installation, you need to meet the hardware, software, and other
requirements described in the following sections:
• Hardware Requirements
• Software Requirements
Hardware Requirements
To install the Endurance server, you need the following hardware:
Table 1-2 Endurance Server Hardware Requirements
Item Notes
IOPs
The two IOPs must be Pentium
®
class PCI-bus PCs. Each IOP
must have:
• A minimum of 256 MB of system memory
• The capability of restarting automatically after a power failure.
On some systems, you may need to select options for automatic
restart in the system Setup utility.
• A SCSI system disk for the local copy of the version of the
Windows operating system you are using
• SCSI Host Based Adapter (HBA)
• One SCSI-based or IDE CD-ROM
• One SCSI IOP boot device (a physical drive or a logical drive
from a hardware RAID set)
• At least one SCSI hard disk that meets the requirements listed in
the Mirrored Disks Set(s) section of this table
• Two Ethernet Adapters that meet the requirements listed in the
Ethernet adapter section of this table
• Floppy disk drive
• Monitor, keyboard, mouse, and video adapter
Make sure your IOP systems conform with the requirements
specified in the
Endurance Release Notes .
No IDE devices other than CD-ROMs may be present.