Hardware requirements

To successfully run Dynamic System Analysis, the system on which you install Dynamic System Analysis must meet certain hardware requirements.

Disk space requirements

To install Dynamic System Analysis, the system must have 100-MB of disk space.

Memory requirements

To run Dynamic System Analysis, the system must have 256-MB or more physical memory for systems running Window and 512-MB or more physical memory systems running Linux. The amount of memory required for this process depends on the size of the logs being collected from the system. It is recommended that DSA Preboot Edition run on a system with more than 1-GB physical memory.

To display the DSA data, systems must have 30-MB to 100-MB of available memory. The amount of memory required depends on the size of the logs being viewed.

ServeRAID requirements

Dynamic System Analysis can collect ServeRAID log information from ServeRAID Manager 6.10 and later. Dynamic System Analysis cannot collect information from the following ServeRAID controllers unless ServeRAID Manager is installed:
  • ServeRAID-7t SATA RAID
  • ServeRAID-8i
  • ServeRAID-8k
  • ServeRAID-8k-l
  • ServeRAID-8s

Service processor requirements

Environmental data is available only on System x servers that have either an Integrated System Management Processor (ISMP), a Remote Supervisor Adapter (RSA) series service processor, or an Integrated Management Module (IMM).