Client environment requirements
Each of the IBM Spectrum Protect™ clients has hardware and software requirements.
The following list shows the location of the environment prerequisites for each supported platform.
For current information about the client environment prerequisites for all of the supported backup-archive client platforms, see technote 1243309.
AIX client environment
This section contains client environment information, backup-archive client components, and hardware and software requirements for the AIX® platform.- HP-UX Itanium 2 API environment
Review API environment information, installable components, and hardware and software requirements for the HP-UX Itanium 2 platform. 
Linux on Power Systems client environment
This section contains client environment information, backup-archive client components, and hardware and software requirements for the Linux on Power Systems™ client platforms.- Linux x86_64 client environment
This section contains client environment information, backup-archive client components, and hardware and software requirements for the Linux on Intel (Linux x86_64) platform. - Linux on System z client environment
This section contains client environment information, backup-archive client components, and hardware and software requirements for the Linux on System z® platform. 
Mac OS X client environment
This section contains client environment information, backup-archive client components, and hardware and software requirements for the Mac OS X client.
Oracle Solaris client environment
This section contains client environment information, backup-archive client components, and hardware and software requirements for the Oracle Solaris platform.
Windows client environment requirements
This section contains client environment information, backup-archive client components, and hardware and software requirements for the supported Windows platforms.
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