Hardware and Software Requirements

The hardware requirements for the MegaRAID Storage Manager software are as follows:

PC-compatible computer with an IA‑32 (32‑bit) Intel® Architecture processor or an EM64T (64‑bit) processor; also compatible with SPARC V9 architecture-based systems.

Minimum 256 MB of system memory (512 MB recommended).

A hard drive with at least 400 MB available free space; Solaris® 10 x86 and Solaris 10 SPARC, Solaris 11 x86 and Solaris 11 SPARC requires a minimum of 640 MB.

The supported operating systems for the MegaRAID Storage Manager software are as follows:

Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Windows® XP, Microsoft Windows Vista®, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows 8, Microsoft Windows 8.1, Microsoft Windows 8.1 Update, Windows 10, and Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (GA).

NOTE  Support of the SNMP Agent is deprecated during the default installation of the MegaRAID Storage Manager software on Microsoft Windows 8.1, Microsoft Windows 8.1 Update, Microsoft Windows 2012, and later versions. However, in a custom installation, if you select SNMP as one of the utilities, the SNMP Agent is installed.

Oracle® Enterprise Linux® 5 U6 and U7, Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 and U1, and Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.10, 6.5, and 7.0.

Red Hat® Linux (RHEL) 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10, 5.11, 6.0, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, and 7.3. The MegaRAID Storage Manager software supports 64-bit environment from RHEL 6 onwards.

Solaris® 10 x86, Solaris SPARC, Solaris 11 x86, Solaris 11 SPARC, Solaris 11 Update 1 x86, and Solaris 11 Update 1 SPARC.

SuSE® Linux/SLES 9, 10, 11, 11 SP2, 11 SP3, 11 SP4, 12, and 12 SP2 with the latest updates and service packs.

VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 2.

VMware® ESX 4.0 and 4.1.

VMware ESXi 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.0 Update 2, 5.1, 5.1 Update 1, 5.1 Update 3, 5.5, 5.5 Update 2, and 6.0.

UEK R3 Update 3 for Oracle Linux 6.4 (64 bit and later) and UEK R3 Update 4.

Refer to your server documentation and to the operating system documentation for more information on hardware and operating system requirements.

NOTE  The MegaRAID Storage Manager software also is supported in the Network Address Translation (NAT) environment. If the server is installed in a remote machine and you want to connect to that server over a NAT environment, through a remote client, you can connect to the remote server by providing the NAT IP address.

NOTE  The MegaRAID Storage Manager software uses the local IP address in the same subnet as the SMTP server to deliver email notifications to the SMTP server.

You can use the MegaRAID Storage Manager software to remotely monitor the systems running the VMware ESXi (3.5 and above) and VMware vSphere (6.0 Update 2 and above) operating systems.

NOTE  Storelib libraries need the capability to be installed with more than one version. All the Storelib libraries have been moved to a private location. Perform a clean uninstallation and then install only the MegaRAID Software Manager software to avoid any conflicts.