Chapter 2
SPD Server Pre-Installation and
System Requirements Guide
AIX Requirements and Tuning for 64-bit SPD Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
HP-UX Requirements and Tuning for 64-bit SPD Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Kernel Tuning Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Required Patches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Solaris on Sparc Requirements and Tuning for 64-bit SPD Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Solaris on X64 Requirements and Tuning for 64-bit SPD Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Linux on X64 Requirements and Tuning for 64-bit SPD Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Windows Requirements and Tuning for 32-bit SPD Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
SPD Server 4.5 Client Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
AIX Requirements and Tuning for 64-bit SPD
Server
For complete information about AIX tuning for SAS SPD Server, see the white paper
selection available on SAS Institute's external Web site at: www.sas.com/partners/
directory/ibm/papers.html
HP-UX Requirements and Tuning for 64-bit SPD
Server
System Requirements
• Required OS level: HP-UX 11i 64-bit OS (HP-UX 11.11 for PA-RISC or HP-IA64 64-
bit OS (HP-UX 11i v2, HP-UX 11.23 for Itanium)
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