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1 Overview

HP StorageWorks Essentials SAN Designer (SAN Designer) provides a quick and easy way to design
your Storage Area Network (SAN), and obtain a SAN design along with a detailed list of SAN
components for your requirements.

SAN Designer offers the following features:

Provides an intuitive, simple, and easy to use, graphical user interface to design SANs

Enables you to design SAN based on performance, cost, and future growth needs

Enables you to compare your SAN with respect to cost and performance

Simplifies initial SAN implementation and helps reduce SAN infrastructure cost and complexity

Generates a report containing SAN topology, device list, and a high level summary of the SAN

Provides access to HP SAN design knowledge

This chapter discusses the following topics:

Hardware and software requirements
Supported operating systems

Hardware and software requirements

This section discusses the hardware and software requirements for installing SAN Designer.

25 MB of free disk space for installation

To use SAN Designer, the following applications must be installed on a host where SAN Designer
is installed:
• Java 2 Runtime Environment (JRE), SE v1.5 or later
• Microsoft Excel viewer
• Microsoft Visio viewer

Table 1

lists the hardware requirements.

Table 1 Hardware requirements

Recommended

Minimum

Item

Pentium IV

Pentium III

Processor

256 MB

128 MB

RAM

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