Server requirements and recommendations
IBM® Storage Sentinel gives you the flexibility to choose your own server platform. You can deploy the IBM Storage Sentinel anomaly scan software on a Virtual Machine (VM) or on a physical server that meets the anomaly scan software recommended minimum hardware and software requirements, shown in the following tables.
Initiators for Fibre Channel and iSCSI must be established between physical anomaly scan software server deployments and IBM storage such as IBM FlashSystem® 9100 and IBM FlashSystem 5200. Fibre Channel is the preferred initiator option for physical anomaly scan software server deployments.
- IBM Storage Sentinel anomaly scan software 8.1.0 Build 1.x and later
patchesNote: Please check on Fix Central for the latest IBM Storage Sentinel 1.1.4 interim fixes as we do updates, refer to Download Information.
- IBM Storage Copy Data Management 2.2.19.0 and later interim fixes
- IBM Spectrum® Virtualize Software for Flash Systems level 8.5.1 and later interim fixes
For IBM Storage Copy Data Management requirements, refer to system requirements and for IBM Spectrum Virtualize requirements, refer to requirements.
- InterSystems Caché and InterSystems IRIS (collectively referred to as InterSystems Database), refer to InterSystems Database requirements.
- SAP HANA, refer to SAP HANA requirements.
- Oracle, refer to Oracle requirements.
The requirements that follow only apply to the anomaly scan software server component of the IBM Storage Sentinel offering. Generally, you will want to successfully install IBM Storage Copy Data Management before deploying the anomaly scan software server. For information on installing IBM Storage Copy Data Management, refer to IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management Installation and setup.
| IBM Storage Sentinel anomaly scan software Server Recommendations | ||||
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| Components | Use Cases | |||
| Medium: Amount of front-end backup data to be indexed ≤ 15TB | Large: Amount of front-end backup data to be indexed ≥ 15TB | |||
| CPU (cores) | 20 | 32 | ||
| Memory | 192 GB | 384 GB | ||
| OS | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15.4 | |||
| SLES 15.4 | ||||
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Note: Repository bundles not provided for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15.4.
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| SELinux | REQUIRED: Note: On servers running SUSE OS, if SELinux is
enabled and enforcing, you must switch it to permissive mode prior to installation or upgrade of the
anomaly scan software. After the installation/upgrade has
finished, switch SELinux back to enforcing/enabled mode.
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| Architecture | x86_64 REQUIRED | |||
| Filesystem | XFS is preferred. EXT4 is also acceptable. | |||
| Host OS Partitioning Schema MINIMUM Requirements and Storage (Direct attached,k local, or SAN) | / partition | 120 GB | ||
| /boot partition | 500 MB | |||
| /opt/ie partition | Your anomaly scan software Sales Engineer can provide guidance on the size of this partition based on the details of your data. | |||
| *Swap | Memory | Swap | ||
| 192GB | 384GB Medium | |||
| 448GB | 832GB Large | |||
| Connectivity to Storage | To be determined at the time of sizing. | |||
| Supported application and operating system | |||||
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| Sentinel Application Support2 | Server OS Support | Sentinel 1.1.2 | Sentinel 1.1.3 | Sentinel 1.1.4 | |
| x86_64 | Power | ||||
| EPIC | x86_64 | Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SAP HANA3 | x86_64 | Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SAP HANA3 | - | RHEL 8.4, SUSE 15 SP3 |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
| EPIC | - | AIX | No | Yes | Yes |
| Oracle | x86_64 | Linux/AIX | No | No | Yes |
| Anomaly scanning server OS support | CentOS (7.9) | No | No | No | |
| Red Hat (V7.x, x is ≥ 5)1 | No | No | No | ||
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15.4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
- Red Hat V8 is unsupported OS on the anomaly scanning server
- Sentinel requires Storage Virtualize for Flash Systems versions 8.5.1 and later interim fixes
- For specific versions of SAP HANA supported, refer to the IBM Storage Copy Data Management support pages