Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration Guide (Supporting Network Advisor 12.3.0) User Manual
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Contents
How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Supported hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
Fabric OS hardware and software support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
IronWare OS hardware and software support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Network OS hardware and software support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
What’s new in this document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
Document conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xvii
Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xvii
Getting technical help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Server and client operating system requirements . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Memory requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Operating system cache requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Disk space requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Browser requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Client and server system requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Downloading the software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Pre-installation requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Additional pre-installation requirements for UNIX systems. . . . . 9
Installing the application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Mapping the loopback address to the local host . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Headless installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Additional pre-installation requirements for UNIX systems
(headless installation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Performing a headless installation on Windows