Brocade Virtual ADX Installation and Deployment Guide (Supporting ADX v03.1.00) - Manual (Page 15)

Brocade Virtual ADX Installation on ESX host
● Brocade Virtual ADX in the ESX host environment.........................................................15
● Brocade Virtual ADX Prerequisites................................................................................. 15
● Brocade Virtual ADX download.......................................................................................16
● Brocade Virtual ADX installation..................................................................................... 16
● Brocade Virtual ADX installation validation..................................................................... 20
● Additional interfaces........................................................................................................21
● TCP checksum offload.................................................................................................... 23
● Brocade Virtual ADX technical help................................................................................ 25
● VMware tools.................................................................................................................. 25
This section describes how to download and install the Brocade Virtual ADX on ESX host. You will learn
about the prerequisites, the download location and other information to get started.
Brocade Virtual ADX in the ESX host environment
In a typical setup, where you are connected to the ESX Host from a PC running a vSphere client, you
will install the Brocade Virtual ADX as a Virtual Appliance (VA) on the ESX Host. The Brocade Virtual
ADX will run as a guest on the ESX Host.
Brocade Virtual ADX Prerequisites
You will need an x86 server running the ESX hypervisor from VMware. The recommended minimum
resources required by the Brocade Virtual ADX are shown below.
Software
• VMware Hypervisor ESX version 4.0 or later
• VMware vSphere Client version 4.0 or later
Hardware
• 2 GHz, Dual-core, 64-bit x86 CPU
• 4 GB RAM
• 40 GB disk space
• Network adaptor with 2 physical ports
By default, the Brocade Virtual ADX requests and reserves the following hardware resources from the
ESX host during configuration.
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