Management Server Requirements (Sun N1 System Manager 1.2 Site Preparation Guide)

Sun N1 System Manager 1.2 Site Preparation Guide

Management Server Requirements

N1 System Manager management server hardware and operating software minimum requirements are listed in the following table. See Table 2–5 for specific management server sizing information based on the number of provisionable servers to be managed.

Caution –

Dedicate the management server only to N1 System Manager software. Do not install other applications on the management server.

Table 2–1 SPARC-based Management Server Hardware and Operating System Requirements


Type	Management Port Type	Operating System	Disk Space	RAM
Netra^TM 240, 440	ALOM	Solaris 10 GA and later	72 Gbytes minimum	4 Gbytes minimum
Sun Fire^TM V210, V240, V440	ALOM	Solaris 10 GA and later
Sun Fire T1000 and T2000	ALOM	Solaris 10 HW2 and later

Table 2–2 X86–Based Management Server Hardware and Operating System Requirements


Type	Management Port Type	Operating System	Disk Space	RAM
Sun Fire X2100 with the 8081A IPMI 1.5 Remote Management Card: Part Number: 371-0743	SP	Solaris x86 Version 10 HW1 and later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 AS Updates 2 through 5, 32–bit and 64–bit	72 Gbytes minimum	4 Gbytes minimum
Sun Fire X4100 and X4200	ILOM	Solaris x86 Version 10 HW1 and later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 AS Update 5, 32–bit and 64–bit
Sun Fire V20z and V40z	SP	Solaris x86 Version 10 and later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 AS Updates 2 through 5, 32–bit and 64–bit

A minimum of 3.0 Gbytes should be allocated for each OS distribution you plan to provision.

On a Solaris-based management server, OS distributions are stored as follows:
- Linux OS distributions are stored in /var/opt/SUNWscs/share/allstart
- Solaris OS distributions are stored in /var/js
On a Linux-based management server, OS distributions are stored as follows:
- Linux OS distributions are stored in /var/opt/sun/scs/share/allstart/
- Solaris OS distributions are stored in /var/opt/sun/scs/share/allstart/jumpstart/

Note –

If the server you have chosen for the management server has only two network interfaces, consider installing a third 10/100 NIC in the N1 System Manager. A third NIC enables you to assign the management, provisioning, and data networks to separate network interfaces, and simplifies administrative tasks. The example diagrams and configurations in this document assume that an additional NIC has been installed in the management server.