HP SAN - Manual (Page 7)

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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