System and Software Requirements

This page documents the system and software requirements for the NetApp Manageability SDK client.

 

System Requirements:

The NetApp Manageability SDK supports the following client platforms that :

Operating System

Versions

Windows 32-bit

2000, 2003, 2008

Windows 64-bit

Win 64 IA64, X64

Red Hat Linux (32-bit and 64-bit)

AS V3, V4, ES V3, V4, V5

Oracle Enterprise Linux

4.0

SUSE Linux (32-bit and 64-bit)

9.0, 10.0

Solaris SPARC 32-bit

8.0, 9.0, 10.0

Solaris SPARC 64-bit

8.0, 9.0, 10.0

Solaris x86 32-bit

10.0

Solaris x64-bit

10.0

AIX (32-bit and 64-bit)

5.2, 5.3, 6.1

HP-UX 32-bit

11.11 and later

VMware ESX server

3.0

 

Software Requirements:

NetApp Manageability SDK supports C, C++, Java, Perl, C#, VB.NET, and PowerShell on the client-side. The NetApp Manageability SDK supports the following software versions:

Language

Software requirements

C, C++

Visual Studio 2005 for Windows.

For debug version, use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 SP1 8.0.50727.762.

The following compilers are supported on UNIX-like platforms:

  • To compile applications on a 32-bit UNIX-like environment, use GNU Make and GNU C/C++ Compiler.

  • To compile applications on the 64-bit UNIX-like environment, use GNU C/C++ Compiler 3.2 or later.

Java

Sun Microsystem Java 1.4, 5.0, 6.0

HP-UX Java 1.4, 5.0, 6.0

AIX Java 1.4, 5.0, 6.0

 

Note: Java 5.0 and later supports the IPv6 feature

Perl

Perl 5.8, 5.10

On aix-thread-multi, install the "expat" module, which is the XML parser.

C#, VB.NET

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5

PowerShell

PowerShell 1.0

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5

 

To use the Data ONTAP management APIs, storage systems should run Data ONTAP 6.3 or later.

 

Web services dependency:

To use Web services sample codes, you must have Apache CXF, and Java 5.0 or later installed on your system.

To compile and execute the Web services sample codes in C#, install Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 with C#.

 

Browser support matrix for Help:

The Help system supports the following browser for different platforms:

Operating system

Browser

Windows

Internet Explorer 6.0

Mozilla 1.7

Firefox 1.5

Solaris

Mozilla 1.7

Firefox 2.0

Linux

Mozilla 1.4.3

Firefox 1.0.7

AIX

Mozilla 1.7

HP-UX

Mozilla 1.7

Firefox 1.5

 

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