APTARE IT Analytics Certified Configurations Guide

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Product(s): APTARE IT Analytics (10.5)
  1. Portal and database servers
    1.  
      Portal supported operating systems
    2.  
      Recommended portal configurations
    3.  
      Oracle Database and Memory Requirements
    4. Supported browsers and display resolution
      1.  
        Linux portal server: Exported and emailed reports
    5.  
      Supported third-party and open source products
  2. Data Collector server configurations
    1.  
      Data Collector supported operating systems
    2. Data Collector server memory and CPU guidelines
      1.  
        Customize the Linux file handle setting for large collections
      2.  
        Factors impacting Data Collector performance and memory requirements
    3.  
      Data Collector prerequisites
    4.  
      Firewall configuration: Default ports
  3. Capacity Manager configurations
    1.  
      Supported storage arrays and access requirements
    2.  
      IBM Arrays: Modify profile
    3.  
      Creating a NetApp user with API privileges
    4.  
      Creating a NetApp cluster-mode user with API privileges
    5. Array/LUN performance Data Collection
      1.  
        Port performance metrics
    6.  
      EMC Isilon metrics
    7.  
      NetApp cluster-mode metrics
    8.  
      EMC Symmetrix enhanced performance metrics
    9.  
      Host resources prerequisites and configurations
    10. Host access privileges, sudo commands, ports, and WMI proxy requirements
      1.  
        Access requirements by OS
    11.  
      WMI proxy requirements for Windows host Data Collection
    12.  
      Host resources supported configurations
    13.  
      Supported host bus adapters (HBAs)
  4. Cloud configurations
    1.  
      Supported systems and access requirements
  5. Virtualization Manager configurations
    1.  
      Supported versions
    2. Virtualization Manager Data Collector requirements for VMware
      1.  
        Creating a VMware Read-Only user
    3.  
      Virtualization Manager Data Collector requirements for Microsoft Hyper-V
  6. File Analytics configurations
    1. Data Collector probes by storage type
      1.  
        CIFS shares
      2.  
        Host inventory probe
  7. Fabric Manager configurations
    1. Switch vendors
      1.  
        Download Cisco Data Center Network Manager
  8. Backup Manager configurations
    1.  
      Backup solutions and versions
    2.  
      Centralized NetBackup Data Collection requirements
    3. Veritas NetBackup 8.1 (and later) requirements for centralized collection
      1.  
        Required Software
  9. Internal TCP port requirements
    1.  
      Internal TCP port requirements
    2.  
      Internal portal server ports
    3.  
      Internal data collector ports

Recommended portal configurations

The following Portal configurations are recommended. Enterprise-specific requirements may warrant additional resources, as you fully deploy features and add APTARE IT Analytics licensed products to the Portal.

Table: Portal Configuration

Medium Portal (Virtual Machine)

Medium Portal Criteria

  • Windows 64-bit or Linux 64-bit

  • 4 vCPU cores with a minimum 32 GiB of memory recommended

  • maximum 2 physical CPU sockets (Oracle license limitation)

  • minimum of 200 GiB of usable disk space (SAN or DAS, not NAS)

  • Capacity < 10 PB and

  • Backup < 10,000 clients

Table:

Large Portal (Physical Server)

Large Portal Criteria

  • Linux 64-bit

  • Minimum of 4 Cores (8 Logical CPUs), with 96 GiB of RAM

  • Maximum 2 physical CPU sockets (Oracle license limitation)

  • Minimum of 500 GiB of usable disk space (SAN or DAS, not NAS)

  • Capacity > 20 PB or

  • Backup > 20,000 clients

Note:

For File Analytics data collection, contact your technical sales consultant for disk space recommendations.