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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Linux x86/x86_64 Client Requirements

For an overview of TSM Client and Server supported operating systems and platforms:

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21243309

Link to latest Server and Client downloads:

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21239415

Hardware and Software Requirements

Version 6.4

Hardware

Operating System

Communication Protocol

Systems based on the X86 64bit processor architecture such as Intel-64 or AMD64

No additional RAM is required for product installation. RAM requirements for running the product vary widely and depend on your environment, configuration, and tasks that you perform. Additional RAM might be required to run the product.

SLES 11
(including SLES 11 level in Novell OES 11 details)
SLED 11
SLES 10
(including SLES 10 level in Novell OES 2 details)
SLED 10
Note: SP1 and higher required for snapshot image backup on
SLES 10 and SLED 10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for Servers
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for Servers
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop

Note: For "best effort" support of other Linux distributions, see this technote: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21417165

Note: For supported file systems see this web page
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.itsm.client.doc/c_bac_aclsupt.html
The following GPFS releases are supported:

GPFS 3.4.0.4 or higher
GPFS 3.5

Note: For VMware ESX Service Console support, see this technote: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21394300

TCP/IP, which comes standard with Linux
Shared Memory (only with Linux x86_64 TSM server)

Additional Software
Java GUI and Web backup-archive client require:

Java: JRE 6 or 7

Note: To perform backups or restores of VMware virtual machines using the Backup-Archive Client the following package must be installed:

On a Novell SUSE Linux system, the libfuse.so.2 shared object library must be installed. Install the libfuse version 2 package.
On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or 6 system, the libfuse.so2, libxml2.so, and libexpat.so shared object libraries must be installed. Install fuse-libs version 2 package.

Note: Novell NSS is supported by this client
For NetApp Data ONTAP support see http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21474217

Version 6.3

Hardware

Operating System

Communication Protocol

SLES 11
(including SLES 11 level in Novell OES 11 details)
SLED 11
SLES 10
(including SLES 10 level in Novell OES 2 details)
SLED 10
Note: SP1 and higher required for snapshot image backup on
SLES 10 and SLED 10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for Servers
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for Servers
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop

GPFS 3.4.0.4 or higher
GPFS 3.5

Note: For VMware ESX Service Console support, see this technote: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21394300

TCP/IP, which comes standard with Linux
Shared Memory (only with Linux x86_64 TSM server)

Additional Software
Java GUI and Web backup-archive client require:

Java: JRE 6 or 7

Note: Novell NSS is supported by this client
For NetApp Data ONTAP support see http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21474217

Version 6.2

Hardware

Operating System

Communication Protocol

An X86 based PC architecture (such as Pentium) or later, or AMD64/EM64T processor

No additional RAM is required for product installation. RAM requirements for running the product vary widely and depend on your environment, configuration, and tasks that you perform. Additional RAM might be required to run the product.

SLES 11
(including SLES 11 level in Novell OES 11 details)
SLED 11
SLES 10
(including SLES 10 level in Novell OES 2 details)
SLED 10
Note: SP1 and higher required for snapshot image backup on
SLES 10 and SLED 10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for Servers with TSM 6.2.2 or higher
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Desktop with TSM 6.2.2 or higher
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for Servers
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop

Note: For "best effort" support of other Linux distributions, see this technote: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21417165

Note: For supported file systems see this web page
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r2/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.itsm.client.doc/c_bac_aclsupt.html
The following GPFS releases are supported:

3.2 and higher 3.2 levels
3.3.0.3 and higher 3.3 levels (but not 3.3.0.11)
3.4.0.4 and higher 3.4 levels with TSM 6.2.2 and higher 6.2 TSM levels

Note: For VMware ESX Service Console support, see this technote: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21394300

TCP/IP, which comes standard with Linux
Shared Memory (only with Linux x86_64 TSM server)

Additional Software
Java GUI and Web backup-archive client require:

Java: JRE 5 or 6

Web backup-archive client also requires:

Firefox 2 or compatible

Note: Novell NSS is supported by this client
For NetApp Data ONTAP support see http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21474217

Version 6.1

Hardware

Operating System

Communication Protocol

SLES 11
(including SLES 11 level in Novell OES 11 details)
SLED 11
SLES 10
(including SLES 10 level in Novell OES 2 details)
SLED 10
Note: SP1 and higher required for snapshot image backup on
SLES 10 and SLED 10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for Servers
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop
Asianux 3.0

Note: For "best effort" support of other Linux distributions, see this technote: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21417165

Note: For supported file systems see this web page
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.itsm.client.doc/c_bac_aclsupt.html
The following GPFS releases are supported:

3.2 and higher 3.2 levels
3.3.0.3 and higher 3.3 levels (but not 3.3.0.11) with TSM 6.1.3 and higher 6.1 TSM levels

Note: For VMware ESX Service Console support, see this technote: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21394300

TCP/IP, which comes standard with Linux
Shared Memory (only with Linux x86_64 TSM server)Removed the HSM PID (which was potentially wrong) at the bottom of this doc.

Additional Software
Java GUI and Web backup-archive client require:

Java: JRE 5 or 6

Web backup-archive client also requires:

Firefox 2 or compatible

Note: Novell NSS is supported by this client

Version 5.5

Hardware

Operating System

Communication Protocol

SLES 9
(including SLES 9 level in Novell OES 1)
SLES 10
(including SLES 10 level in Novell OES 2 details)
Note: SP1 and higher required for snapshot image backup
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (AS, WS, ES)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Asianux 2.0, 3.0

Note: For supported file systems see this web page
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsmfdt.doc%2Fans50000109.htm
The following GPFS releases are supported:

2.3.0.24 and higher 2.3 levels
3.1.0.13 and higher 3.1 levels

Note: For VMware ESX Service Console support, see this technote: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21394300

TCP/IP, which comes standard with Linux
Shared Memory (only with Linux x86 TSM server)

Additional Software
Java GUI and Web backup-archive client require:

Java: JRE 1.4.x (where x is 2 or greater) or JRE 5

Web backup-archive client also requires:

Mozilla 1.4 for the Web backup-archive client

Note: Novell NSS is supported by this client

Version 5.4 Tivoli Storage Manager is past End of Support (EOS). Link to the 5.4 Client EOS page:
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21592672

Note:

LAN-free client also requires IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for SAN (5608-SAN)
HSM client also requires IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management. See this page for HSM client requirements: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21248771

Client Components Offered

Administrative	Backup/Archive			HSM		API
Command Line Interface	Graphical User Interface	Command Line Interface	Web Browser Interface	Graphical User Interface	Command Line Interface	User Interface