Planning System Hardware and Capacity for Trusted Extensions

System hardware includes the system itself and its attached devices. Such devices include tape drives, microphones, CD-ROM drives, and disk packs. Hardware capacity includes system memory, network interfaces, and disk space.

• Follow the recommendations for installing a Solaris release, as described in System Requirements and Recommendations in Solaris 10 5/09 Installation Guide: Basic Installations. Trusted Extensions features can add to those requirements:

  Memory beyond the suggested minimum is required on the following systems:

  • Systems that run the Solaris Management Console, a required administrative GUI

  • Systems that run at more than one sensitivity label

  • Systems that are used by users who can assume an administrative role

• More disk space is required on the following systems:

  • Systems that store files at more than one label

  • Systems whose users can assume an administrative role