Software requirements
Documentation for the IBM Spectrum® Protect multisite disk solution includes installation and configuration tasks for the following operating systems. You must meet the minimum software requirements that are listed.
For information about software requirements for IBM® in tape device drivers, refer to the IBM Tape Device Drivers Installation and User's Guide.
AIX systems
| Type of software | Minimum software requirements |
|---|---|
| Operating system | IBM
AIX® 7.1 For more information about operating system requirements, see AIX: Minimum system requirements for AIX systems. |
| Gunzip utility | The gunzip utility must be available on your system before you install or upgrade the IBM Spectrum Protect 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 IBM 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 IBM Spectrum Protect. Do not use the file system mount options, Concurrent I/O (CIO), and Direct I/O (DIO), for file systems that contain the IBM Spectrum Protect database, logs, or storage pool volumes. These options can cause performance degradation of many server operations. IBM Spectrum Protect and Db2 can still use DIO where it is beneficial to do so, but IBM Spectrum Protect 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
IBM Spectrum Protect system. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Servers:
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| 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 Server 2012 R2 (64-bit) or Windows Server 2016 |
| File system type | NTFS |
| Other software |
Windows 2012 R2 or Windows 2016 with .NET Framework 3.5 is installed and enabled. The following User Account Control policies must be disabled:
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