4 – Installation
Site Requirements
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Fabric Management Workstation
The requirements for fabric management workstations are described in Table 4-1:
Telnet workstations require an RJ-45 Ethernet port or an RS-232 serial port and
an operating system with a Telnet client.
Switch Power Requirements
Power requirements are 1 Amp at 100 VAC or 0.5 A at 240 VAC.
Environmental Conditions
Consider the factors that affect the climate in your facility such as equipment heat
dissipation and ventilation. The switch requires the following operating conditions:
Operating temperature range: 5–40°C (41–104°F)
Relative humidity: 10–90%, non-condensing
Table 4-1. Management Workstation Requirements
Component Requirement
Operating System
Windows 2003 and XP SP1/SP2
Solaris 9, 10, and 10 x86
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 4 and 5
SUSE™ Linux Enterprise Server 9 and 10
Mac® OS X 10.4 and 10.5
Memory 512 MB or more; 1 GB recommended
Processor 1 GHz or faster
Internet Browser Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 6.0 or later
Netscape Navigator® 6.0 and later
Mozilla™ 1.5 and later
Safari® 1.0 and later (on Mac OS)
Firefox 1.5 and later
Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment 1.4.2
for QuickTools