Software requirements

Documentation for the single-site disk Tivoli® Storage Manager solution includes installation and configuration tasks for the following operating systems. You must meet the minimum software requirements that are listed.

Operating systems and versions: The following tables show the operating systems that are chosen as the base for the implementation instructions for the solution. You can implement your solution with any of the operating systems and versions that are supported. However, if you use a different operating system, some of the implementation steps might differ, or might not apply for different operating system versions. For details about other operating systems and versions that are supported for the server, see Tivoli Storage Manager Supported Operating Systems.

AIX systems

Type of software	Minimum software requirements
Operating system	IBM® AIX® 7.1
Gunzip utility	The gunzip utility must be available on your system before you install or upgrade the Tivoli Storage Manager server. Ensure that the gunzip utility is installed and the path to it is set in the PATH environment variable.
File system type	JFS2 file systems AIX systems can cache a large amount of file system data, which can reduce memory that is required for server and DB2® processes. To avoid paging with the AIX server, use the rbrw mount option for the JFS2 file system. Less memory is used for the file system cache and more is available for Tivoli Storage Manager. Do not use the file system mount options, Concurrent I/O (CIO), and Direct I/O (DIO), for file systems that contain the Tivoli Storage Manager database, logs, or storage pool volumes. These options can cause performance degradation of many server operations. Tivoli Storage Manager and DB2 can still use DIO where it is beneficial to do so, but Tivoli Storage Manager does not require the mount options to selectively take advantage of these techniques.
Other software	Korn Shell (ksh)

Linux systems

Type of software	Minimum software requirements
Operating system	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (x86_64)
Libraries	GNU C libraries, Version 2.3.3-98.38 or later that is installed on the Tivoli Storage Manager system. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Servers: libaio libstdc++.so.6 (32-bit and 64-bit packages are required) numactl.x86_64
File system type	Format database-related file systems with ext3 or ext4. For storage pool-related file systems, use XFS.
Other software	Korn Shell (ksh)

Windows systems

Type of software	Minimum software requirements
Operating system	Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 (64-bit)
File system type	NTFS
Other software	Windows 2012 R2 with .NET Framework 4.5 is installed and enabled. The following User Account Control policies must be disabled: User Account Control: Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator account User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode