Hardware Requirements

The following section describes the minimum hardware requirements necessary for the BMI installation.

BMI Server

• 512 MBytes of memory

• 1000 Mbytes of SWAP space

• 512 Mbytes of disk space

• One dedicated system for Sun Update Connection – Enterprise, the API, and the BMI server

Bare Metal Machines

• PXE-enabled network card, or a diskette drive and a PXE boot disk

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  Note –

  Set the PXE network boot as the first boot device

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• 256 Mbytes of memory

• 256 Mbytes of disk space

• Other requirements specific for the Solaris OS or Linux distribution

Image Server

• One to two Gbytes of disk space required for each Solaris OS or Linux distribution to be provisioned