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#, and VB.NET 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

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

C# and VB.NET

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

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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