System Requirements - Recovery Director

The following requirements are for Recovery Director:

Operating System

Processor

AIX

 AIX 5.2 64-bit with technology level 10 and runtime library xlC.rte 8.0.0.0 or higher

AIX 5.3 64-bit with technology level 6 and runtime library xlC.rte 8.0.0.0 or higher

Power PC (Includes IBM System p)

HP-UX

HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11) 32-bit with OS patch PHCO29328 (contact Hewlett Packard to obtain the patch)  

HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11) 64-bit with OS patch PHCO29328 (contact Hewlett Packard to obtain the patch)

HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23) 64-bit

PA-RISC

HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23) 64-bit

(Supported with the Generic Enabler only.)

Intel Itanium

Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3.0 32-bit with kernel RH 2.4.21-15 and glibc 2.3.2-95.20

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 with glibc 2.5.x

SuSE Linux

SuSE Linux 10 Enterprise Server Edition with glibc 2.4.x

 

Intel Pentium or compatible minimum required

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 with glibc 2.5.x

SuSE Linux

SuSE Linux 10 Enterprise Server Edition with glibc 2.4.x

x64

Solaris

 Solaris 8 64-bit with Service Packs 108434-09, 108435-09, and 109147-20

Solaris 9 64-bit with Service Packs 111711-02 and 111712-02

Solaris 10 64-bit

Sun Sparc5 or higher recommended

Windows

Windows 2003

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 32-bit Edition up to Service Pack 2

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise 32-bit Edition up to Service Pack 2

Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 32-bit Edition up to Service Pack 2

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition* up to Service Pack 2

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 64-bit Datacenter Edition* with Service Pack 2

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition* up to Service Pack 2

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition** up to Service Pack 2 

Windows 2008

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 32-bit and x64 Editions*

*Core and R2 Editions not supported

**Contact your software provider prior to installing the software on this platform.                       

All Windows-compatible processors supported

Cluster Support

See Clustering - Support

Memory

AIX, HP-UX, Linux, and Solaris

16 MB RAM minimum required beyond the requirements of the operating system and application server 

Swap space = 2*RAM size recommended

Windows

32 MB RAM minimum required beyond the requirements of the operating system and running applications

The above mentioned requirements are beyond the requirements stated for System Requirements - Quick Recovery Agent.

Hard Disk

AIX, HP-UX, Linux, and Solaris

225 MB minimum of hard drive space for software 

100 MB of additional hard disk space for log file growth

10 MB of temp space required for install or upgrade (where the temp directory resides)

Windows

102 MB minimum of hard disk space for software/ 199 MB recommended

50 MB of additional hard disk space for log file growth

79 MB of temp space required for install or upgrade (where the temp folder resides)

The above mentioned requirements are beyond the requirements stated for System Requirements - Quick Recovery Agent.

Peripherals

DVD-ROM drive

Network Interface Card

Fibre Channel card (HBA) to connect with fibre channel devices

Miscellaneous

TCP/IP Services configured on the computer.

On Solaris computers, the operating system must have been installed with at least the user level software option selected.

For details on snapshot engines supported by Recovery Director, see Support Information - Snapshot Engines.

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package is automatically installed. Note that Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package can co-exist with other versions of this software.

.NET Framework 2.0 is automatically installed. Note that .NET Framework 2.0 can co-exist with other versions of this software.

If you have SELinux enabled on the client computer, create the SELinux policy module as a root user before performing a backup. The SELinux Development package must be installed on the client.

To create SELinux policy module, perform the following steps as user "root":

  1. Create the following files in the /usr/share/selinux/devel directory:
File Name Content of the file
<directory>/<file_name>.te

where:

<directory> is /usr/share/selinux/devel

<file_name> is the name of the Unix file, created to save the policy module statement. It is a good idea to use the same name for policy module and the file.

For example: When you are creating a policy module for backup_IDA application, you can use the following file name: backup_IDA.te

 

 The content of the file should be as follows:

policy_module(<name>,<version>)

##############################

where:

<name> is the name of the policy module. You can give any unique name to the policy module, such as a process or application name.

<version> is the version of the policy module. It can be any number, such as 1.0.0.

For Example: While creating a policy module for the backup_IDA application, you can use the following content.

policy_module(backup_IDA,1.0.0)
<directory>/<file_name>.fc

where:

<directory> is /usr/share/selinux/devel

<file_name> is the name of the Unix file, created to save the policy module statement. It is a good idea to use the same name for policy module and the file.

For example: When you are creating a policy module for backup_IDA application, you can use the following file name: backup_IDA.fc

 

 The content of the file should be as follows:

Note that the following list of files is not exhaustive. If the process fails to launch, check /var/log/messages. Also, if required, add it to the following list of files.

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libCTreeWrapper.so -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libCVMAGuiImplgso -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libdb2locale.so.1 -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libdb2osse.so.1 -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libDb2Sbt.so -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libdb2trcapi.so.1 -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libDrDatabase.so -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libIndexing.so -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libSnooper.so -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

 
  1. Create the policy file from command line. Use the following command. Ensure that you give the following commands in the /usr/share/selinux/devel directory.

[root]# make backup_IDA.pp

Compiling targeted backup_IDA module

/usr/bin/checkmodule: loading policy configuration from tmp/backup_IDA.tmp

/usr/bin/checkmodule: policy configuration loaded

/usr/bin/checkmodule: writing binary representation (version 6) to tmp/backup_IDA.mod

Creating targeted backup_IDA.pp policy package

rm tmp/backup_IDA.mod tmp/backup_IDA.mod.fc

[root]# semodule -i backup_IDA.pp

[root]#

  1. Execute the policy module. Use the following command:

[root]# restorecon -R /opt/<software installation directory>

SELinux is now configured to work with this application.

DISCLAIMER

Minor revisions and/or service packs that are released by application and operating system vendors may, in some cases, affect the working of our software. Although we may list such revisions and/or service packs as “supported” in our System Requirements, changes to the behavior of our software resulting from an application or operating system revision/service pack may be beyond our control. However, we will make every effort to correct such disruption as quickly as possible. When in doubt, please contact your software provider to ensure support for a specific application or operating system.

Additional considerations regarding minimum requirements and End of Life policies from application and operating system vendors are also applicable.