System requirements for the Continuous Optimization Agent
Hardware requirements
The following table describes the hardware requirements for the Agent.
| Operating system | Disk space required for | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agent installation | Daily data collection | Historical data | /etc file system | |
| Windows, UNIX, and Linux | 300 MB | 1 or 2 GB based on the number of processes, file systems, disks, and network interfaces in the system. | Depends on the size and the configuration of your system. For information about estimating the disk size for storing historical data, see Estimating the disk space on the Agent system for historical data. | (For UNIX and Linux) 2 MB Note: Make sure that you have the execute (x) permission to the /etc directory. |
For Linux systems, ensure that the installation directory is on a standard Linux file system such as ext3 or a Global File System (GFS) for high availability deployments (Active/Passive servers). Installation on a CIFS share mounted as a file system is not supported. You can use CIFS share only for the shared repository.
Supported operating systems
The following operating systems are supported for direct installation of the Agent:
| Operating system | Supported version | Architecture and notes |
|---|---|---|
| AIX | 7.2, 7.3 | 64-bit hardware, 64-bit kernel, POWER8, POWER9, POWER10 |
| Amazon Linux | 2 | x86_64 |
| CentOS Linux | 7.6 and later | x86_64 |
| 8.0 and later | x86_64 | |
| Citrix Xen | 7.6.0
| x86_64 Important: Install XenServer Tools in each VM to get memory usage metrics. |
| Citrix Hypervisor | 8.0 and later | x86_64 Important: Install XenServer Tools in each VM to get memory usage metrics. |
| HP-UX | 11iv3 (B11.31) | Itanium |
| HP-IVM | 3.5 | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager |
| Microsoft Windows for Servers | 2012 R2 (including core server) | x86_64 |
2016 (including core server) | x86_64 | |
| 2019 (including core server) | x86_64 | |
| 2022 (including core server) | x86_64 | |
| Microsoft Windows | 10 | x86_64 |
| Microsoft Hyper-V Server | 2012 | x86_64 |
| 2012 R2 | x86_64 | |
| 2016 | x86_64 | |
| 2019 | x86_64 | |
| 2022 | x86_64 | |
| Oracle Linux Server | 7.6 and later | x86_64 (including UEK) |
| 8.0 and later | x86_64 (including UEK) | |
| 9.0 and later | x86_64 (including UEK) | |
| Oracle Solaris | 11.0 and later | 64-bit SPARC, x86_64 For Oracle Solaris Sparc servers, the installation of Continuous Optimization Agent is supported on global zones and kernel zones. |
| Oracle VM Server | 3.3 and later | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 7.6 and later |
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| 8.0 and later |
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| 9.0 and later |
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| Rocky Linux | 8.0 and later | x86_64 |
| 9.0 and later | x86_64 | |
| RHEV | 4.0 and later | x86_64 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | 12 SP2 and later | x86_64 |
| 15 SP1 and later |
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| Ubuntu | 20.04 LTS | EM64T (x86_64) |
| 22.04 LTS | EM64T (x86_64) | |
| 24.04 LTS | EM64T (x86_64) |
Patch requirements for the operating system
Patch for | Package name | Details |
|---|---|---|
Solaris | libpool.so.1 | For Solaris 11:
To verify that these packages are installed, run the following command: > pkginfo | grep SUNWpool |
Supported platforms for a Docker host
To install the Agent by using the Docker container, the following Linux systems are supported on a Docker host:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Ubuntu
- CentOS
File systems
- Create the agent history and daily data collection repositories on a local file system.
- To use remote data repositories on a UNIX network file system, make sure that the rpc.lockd and rpc.statd NFS lock manager daemons run on both the client and server computers.