AOC-USAS-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual
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5-2 Hardware and Software Requirements
The hardware requirements for MegaRAID Storage Manager software are as follows:
• PC-compatible computer with an IA-32 (32-bit) Intel Architecture processor or an
EM64T (64-bit) processor and at least 128 Mbytes of system memory (256 Mbytes
recommended)
• Hard disk drive with at least 50 Mbytes available free space
The supported operating systems for the MegaRAID Storage Manager software are as
follows:
• Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows XP,
Microsoft Vista and Microsoft Windows Server 2008.
• Red Hat Linux 3.0 or 4.0
• SUSE SLES 9, with latest updates and service packs
Refer to your server documentation and to the operating system documentation for
more information on hardware and operating system requirements.
5-3 Installing for Windows
Follow these steps if you need to install MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a
system running Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, or Microsoft
Windows XP:
1. Insert the MegaRAID Storage Manager software installation CD in the CD-ROM
drive.
If necessary, find and double-click the setup.exe file to start the installation program.
2. When the W
ELCOME screen appears, click NEXT.
If MegaRAID Storage Manager software is already installed on this system, the
P
ROGRAM MAINTENANCE screen appears. Read the screen text and select MODIFY,
R
EPAIR, or REMOVE.
3. When the next screen appears, read and accept the user license, and click NEXT.
The C
USTOMER INFORMATION screen appears, as shown in Figure 5-1.
