System requirements
System requirements for IBM Spectrum Archive™ Single Drive Edition.
The following operating systems and hardware platforms are supported:
Linux computers
- Supported operating systems
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Servers (RHEL) 7.2 (x86_64)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Servers (RHEL) 7.3 (x86_64, and ppc64le)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Servers (RHEL) 7.4 (x86_64, and ppc64le)
- Supported hardware
- x86_64, or ppc64 (POWER8 or later, in Little Endian mode) processor.
- 1 GB of available RAM for each 1 million files that are stored on a tape.
- Serial Attached Small Computer System Interface (SAS) or Fibre Channel host bus adapter (HBA) supported by IBM® LTO 5, LTO 6, LTO 7, and LTO 8 tape drives.
- Fibre Channel HBA supported by IBM TS1140, TS1150, and TS1155 tape drives.
- USB 3.0 interface that is supported by IBM USB LTO 5 and LTO 6 tape drives.
Apple Mac computers
- Supported operating system
- OS X 10.11
El Capitan
(64-bit) - macOS 10.12
Sierra
(64-bit) - macOS 10.13
High Sierra
(64-bit)
- OS X 10.11
- Supported hardware
- Mac Pro (Intel).
- x86_64 processor.
- 1 GB of available RAM for each 1 million files that are stored on a tape.
- SAS HBA provided by ATTO Technology, Inc.
- Fibre Channel HBA.
- Any Mac that has a USB 3.0 interface that is supported by IBM USB LTO 5 and LTO 6 tape drives.
Windows
- Supported operating systems
- Windows 8.1 (64 bit)
- Windows 10 (Anniversary update or later)
- Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit)
- Windows Server 2016 (64-bit)
- Supported hardware
- x86_64 processor.
- The Secure Boot option of the PC must be disabled.
- 1 GB of available RAM for each 1 million files that are stored on a tape.
- SAS or Fibre Channel HBA supported by IBM LTO Ultrium 5, LTO 6, LTO 7, and LTO 8 tape drives.
- Fibre Channel HBA supported by IBM TS1140 tape drives.
- USB 3.0 interface that is supported by IBM USB LTO 5 and LTO 6 tape drives.
Note: Write-once, read-many (WORM) media are not supported.
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