System and Software Requirements

This page documents the system and software requirements for the Manage ONTAP SDK client.

System Requirements:

Following are the client platforms that the Manage ONTAP SDK supports:

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:

Manage ONTAP SDK supports C, C++, Java, Perl, C#, VB.NET, and PowerShell on the client-side. Following are the software versions that Manage ONTAP SDK supports:

Language	Software requirements
C, C++	Visual Studio 6.0 for Windows. Following are the compilers 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 Java 5.0 and later supports 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.

Browser support matrix for Help:

Following is the browser support of the Help system in various 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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