Your system must meet the operating system, hotfix, Exchange server, hardware, protocol, and licensing requirements to run SnapManager.
SnapManager 3.2 for Microsoft Exchange has fractional reserve monitoring enabled by default. When you upgrade from SnapManager 3.2 to this version of SnapManager, fractional space reservation remains enabled.
For versions prior to 3.2, it is disabled by default. If you are not using fractional space reservation on the volumes that contain LUNs that are used for Exchange, the monitoring can be disabled. Doing so improves the time required for a backup operation.
- Operating system
- One of the following:
- Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with Service Pack 2
- Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 2
- Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition R2 with Service Pack 2
- Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition R2 with Service Pack 2
- Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition
- Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Microsoft Windows hotfixes
- See the SnapDrive software system requirements.
- Microsoft Exchange Server
- One of the following versions of Microsoft Exchange (Standard or Enterprise Edition):
- Exchange Server 2010
- Exchange Server 2007 and with Service Pack 1 and 2
- Exchange Server 2003 and with Service Pack 2
Note: This requirement does not apply to a remote administration server.
By default, Exchange Server 2007 uses ChkSgFiles for the integrity verification of databases and transaction logs. The option to throttle Eseutil.exe database checksum verification requires Exchange Server 2003 with SP2 or later.
- FCP and iSCSI Multipath I/O for Windows
- See SnapDrive requirements.
- SnapDrive
- SnapDrive 6.1 and 6.2.
If you need to install or upgrade SnapDrive, see the SnapDrive Installation and Administration Guide for detailed instructions.
For a remote administration server, SnapDrive is optional unless you intend to use the remote administration server to remotely administer SnapDrive. For a remote verification server, SnapDrive is required.
- SnapDrive preferred IP address
- If your storage system has multiple IP addresses, configure the SnapDrive preferred IP address. See the SnapDrive Installation and Administration Guide for your version of SnapDrive.
If you do not configure a SnapDrive preferred IP address for a storage system that has multiple IP addresses, SnapDrive times out when attempting to create Snapshot copies simultaneously for more than one LUN on a storage system.
- iSCSI protocol and FC protocol
- The appropriate LUN access protocol software must be installed on the Windows host that runs the Exchange server. See your SnapDrive documentation for complete details about the system requirements.
Note: This requirement does not apply to a remote administration server.
- SnapManager license
- If SnapManager is licensed per server, a SnapManager license is required on the Windows host system.
Note: For Per Server SnapManager licensing, you can install SnapManager without specifying a server-side license; after SnapManager has been installed, you can apply the license from the
License Settings dialog box.
- Microsoft .NET 3.5 framework
- SnapManager installation package installs Microsoft .NET framework if it is not present in the host system.
- Microsoft Management Console (MMC)
- MMC 3.0 x64 Edition or MMC 3.0 x86 Edition (required for Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2003) to launch the SnapManager snap-in console. This is a prerequisite before you start the SnapManager installation.
- Windows PowerShell
- PowerShell 1.0 RTM x86 Edition or PowerShell 1.0 RTM x64 Edition (required for Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2003) or PowerShell 2.0 (required for Exchange 2010). This is a prerequisite before you run the SnapManager installation.
