IBM XIV Gen3 Series, Planning Manual

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Chapter 8. Planning for management-tool requirements
The IBM XIV Storage System provides a set of management tools, including the
IBM XIV Storage Management GUI, IBM Hyper-Scale Manager, IBM XIV online
monitoring tool (XIVTop), and IBM XIV command-line interface (XCLI). You can
use these management tools to configure and monitor your XIV systems. This
information describes the hardware and software requirements and installation
procedures for these management tools.
Requirements for IBM XIV Storage Management GUI, XCLI, and XIVTop
These requirements are necessary to install the latest IBM XIV Storage
Management GUI, the IBM XIV online monitoring tool (XIVTop), and the IBM XIV
command-line interface (XCLI).
The IBM XIV management tools include IBM XIV Storage Management GUI, IBM
XIV command-line interface (XCLI), and IBM XIV online monitoring tool (XIVTop).
The following table lists the operating system and processor types that are
supported by the IBM XIV management tools.
Table 36. Operating system and processor requirements
Operating system Processor
(XCLI only) IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, or 7.1 IBM PowerPC
®
(XCLI only) HP-UX 11i v3 Intel Itanium 64-bit
MAC OS X 10.6 or 10.7, with Java
™
version
1.6 build 29 or later.
32-bit Dual Core or equivalent
Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008,
Windows Vista, Windows 7 Intel Pentium Dual Core 32-bit, 64-bit, or
equivalent
Red Hat Linux version 5.0 x86 or x64
(XCLI only) Solaris 10 SPARC or x64
You must also satisfy the following requirements before you install the IBM XIV
Storage Management GUI:
v Minimum of 100 MB of free space
v Minimum of 1 GB memory
v Minimum monitor resolution of 1024/768 (up to 1920/1200)
v Minimum monitor color resolution of 24/32 true color
Note: For more information, download the latest version of the XIV Management
Tools Release Notes from IBM Knowledge Center (www.ibm.com/support/
knowledgecenter/STJTAG/com.ibm.help.xivgen3.doc/Gen3/
xiv_gen3releasenotes.dita).
GUI specifications
The XIV GUI runs on either Direct mode or Manager mode. Additionally, the XIV
GUI installed on a 64-bit OS has different specifications than 32-bit OS.
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