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System requirements for installation

This section describes hardware, software, and network requirements that you must verify for SA Core host servers, agents, and satellites.

Supported operating systems for SA Core hosts and Managed Servers are detailed in the SA 10.60 Support and Compatibility Matrix.

  • You must verify that your SA Core and satellite host servers meet the requirements listed in this section. If you do not, your installation may fail or core performance may be affected.
  • The disk hardware needs to be the same on all the core components.
  • The disks in /var/opt/opsware/vault/omb and the database disks are required to have the same speed.

There may be additional installation prerequisites. See the release notes for this SA version.

This section covers the following prerequisites:

Prerequisite checklist

Task

Status (Done/Not Done)

Transfer installation files to a local disk

 

Verify the operating system

 

Verify Oracle requirements

 

Verify Veritas File System (VxFS) requirements (optional)

 

Verify the NFS services configuration

 

Checking the free disk space requirements

 

Check network requirements

 

Checking Slice Component requirements  

SA Installer Prerequisite Checker

 

Download and install Windows patch management files (optional)

 

Check the SA Global File system (OGFS) requirements

 

Check the Core host(s) time and locale requirements

 

Installing the Windows Update Service

 

Checking the user and group requirements

 

Check SA Cores on VMs requirements (optional)