Planning System Hardware and Capacity

System hardware includes the system itself and its attached devices (tape drives, microphones, CD drives, and disk packs). Its capacity includes its memory, its network interfaces, and its disk space.

Consult the Solaris 8 Sun Hardware Platform Guide for a list of hardware that supports the Trusted Solaris environment. Any exceptions are noted in Trusted Solaris 8 4/01 Release Notes.

Peripheral hardware and capacity required for initial installation on a SPARC include:

• 128 MBytes minimum memory - 256 MBytes memory recommended to handle Solaris Management Console requests

• Local CD-ROM drive

Memory over the minimum is required on Trusted Solaris systems that:

• Are used as servers: name servers, file servers, audit servers, boot servers

• Run graphics or other large applications

• Run compilers

• Run number-crunching applications

• Run at more than one sensitivity label

• Are used by users who can assume an administrative role

Similarly, disk space requirements are greater for some systems. See "Disk Space Planning" in Solaris 8 Advanced Installation Guide for a list of factors that affect disk space. Particular Trusted Solaris features that require more disk space include:

• Disks with files stored at more than one label

• Disks whose users can assume administrative roles

For each Trusted Solaris system, you need to determine the following:

• Name and IP address

• Ethernet address (for network installations)

• Sun architecture (for network installations)

• Root password

• PROM security level: maintenance password only, or boot password

• PROM password (for Intel Architecture: BIOS protection)

• What devices may be attached to the system

• Which users may use the system

• Which printers at what labels are accessible from the system