# Installation Prerequisites

This chapter contains information about the hardware and software prerequisites before installating PPT in stand-alone or cluster mode.

- Checklist
- Hardware Requirements
- Software Requirements

Checklist

Before installing PPT, perform the following checks:

- Do I have the hardware required to setup PPT in cluster mode?
- Do I have VERITAS Cluster Solution 5.1 installed on the machines?
- Do I have the hardware connections made between the cluster nodes?
- Do I have the floating IP address which will be shared between the cluster nodes?
- Do I have the path which will be used as shared-dir path which will be shared between the cluster nodes?
- Do I have the username, password and user Id (UID) which will be used to create PPT administrator? The default value for PPT administrator is pptadmin. UID and password for PPT administrator should be same on both the cluster nodes.
- Do I have the directory path which will be used for backup-dir during PPT installation?
- Do I have the names to be used for disk group, disk volume, application resource, NIC resource and IP resource?

Hardware Requirements

This section describes the minimum hardware requirements for installing PPT in stand-alone or cluster mode.

- For Stand-alone
- For Cluster

For Stand-alone

This section describes the minimum hardware requirements for PPT software to be installed in stand-alone mode on Sun Solaris as well as Linux platform.
Linux Server Hardware Platform:

- Cisco UCS C210M2 Server
- 2 x Intel Xeon X5675 processors with 32 GB DDR3 RAM
- 2 x 300 GB SAS hard disk drives with 10,000 RPM
- Quad Gigabit Ethernet interfaces

Sun Server Hardware Platform:

- Sun Microsystems Netra x4270 Server
- 1 x 1.2 GHz 8 core UltraSPARC T2 processors with 16 GB RAM
- 2 x 146 GB SAS hard disk drives
- Quad Gigabit Ethernet interfaces

For Cluster

PPT can be configured in cluster with Active/Passive configuration. Hardware prerequisite are as follows:

- 2 UCS or Solaris 10 machines (Cluster Nodes)
  - Solaris
    - Sun Solaris/SPARC running OS version SunOS 10
    - Sun Microsystems Netra x4270 Server
    - 1 x 1.2 GHz 8 core UltraSPARC T2 processors with 16 GB RAM
    - 2 x 146 GB SAS hard disk drives
    - Quad Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
  - UCS
    - CISCO MITG RHEL release 5.5
    - UCS C210M2
    - 2 x Intel Xeon X5675
    - 32 GB DDR3 RAM
    - 4-16 x 600 GB SAS; 6 G, 10,000 RPM
    - Quad Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
- Up to 2 Internal disks (depending upon the fault tolerance for boot disk/OS)
- Qlogic QLE2462 4Gb dual port FC HBA / Qlogic QLE2560 8 Gbps FC 1 port
- FC Cables
- External Storage with multiple disks. It could be EMC or Storage Tek 2540 M2.

Software Requirements

This section identifies the minimum software requirements for installing PPT in stand-alone or cluster mode.

- For Stand-alone
- For Cluster

For Stand-alone

This section describes the minimum software requirements for PPT to be installed in stand-alone mode.
Linux Server Hardware Platform:

- RHEL Operating System Cisco MITG RHEL v5.5 OS is a custom image that contains software packages that are mandatory to support Cisco MITG external software applications. Users must not install any other applications on the platforms running Cisco MITG RHEL v5.5 OS. For detailed software compatibility information, refer Cisco MITGRHEL v5.5 OS Application Note.

Sun Server Hardware Platform:

- Solaris 10 must be installed using the End User System support 64-bit software group and it must be specified during the installation of the operating system. This option installs the libraries required for proper operation of the PPT.

Ensure that the following patches are installed for Sun Platform:

- The timezone patch 113225-07 or later and libc patch 12874-33 or later for extended daylight savings time (DST) support.
- Solaris 10 with Recommended Patch Cluster dated on or after July 16, 2007 and not later than Nov 2008. Ensure that the kernel patch is not later than the stable patch 137137-09.

  IMPORTANT:

  Solaris 10 Kernel patch beyond 137137-09 may result in kernel panic while executing or invoking system calls.

For Cluster

In addition to the above software, Veritas Cluster Server 5.1 must be installed.