F5 Data Solutions Compatibility Matrix

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F5 Data Solutions Compatibility Matrix

Last Revised: August 18, 2015

This document provides interoperability information intended for use as a reference guide in qualifying customer’s environments for use with the F5 ARX Data Management Operating System 6.4.0, 6.x.x, 5.3.x, v5.2.x, v5.1.x, v5.0.x, v4.1.x, v3.2.x and F5 Data Manager v3.1.x, v3.0.x and v2.6.1. Use this document for planning purposes only because hardware and software versions vary and numerous combinations are possible. The content of this document may change at any time.

Please contact F5 Networks to review specific site requirements and questions. For ARX and Data Manager Versions not listed in this document and for storage systems and versions not covered in this solution matrix, please contact your F5 Networks representative or submit a Customer Special Request (CSR) to F5 Networks Data Solutions Product Management.

F5 ARX and NAS / File-Server Compatibility

This section lists common storage systems and file servers, as well as their respective software versions, which have been tested and qualified for interoperability with the F5 ARX. These servers were tested with the F5 ARX series intelligent file virtualization devices running the Data Management Operating System.

Please contact F5 Networks to review any NAS or file server option not listed in this section. Supported

Platforms Operating System Level

6 Network File

Protocols1,2

Virtual Snapshots5

Present-ation Vols. Comments Amazon S3 Amazon Simple Storage

Services (S3)

CIFS NFS

No Yes  Requires ARX Cloud Extender v1.10.1.3 and

ARX v5.1.9 or greater for CIFS

 Requires ARX Cloud Extender v1.10.1 and ARX v6.0.0, v6.1.0 for NFS see Deployment Guide F5 ARX DG for Amazon S3 for details.

 Supports original CIFS (SMB) protocol AT&T

Synaptic

AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service (powered by EMC Atmos)

CIFS NFS

No Yes  Requires ARX Cloud Extender v1.8.1.19 or

greater and ARX v5.2.2 or greater for CIFS

 Requires ARX Cloud Extender v1.10.1 or greater for NFS and ARX v6.0.0, v6.1.0 for NFS

 Utilizes EMC Atmos

 Supports original CIFS (SMB) protocol Dell

PowerVault Series

Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 SP17

Windows Storage Server 20087 Windows 2003 Server R2 Windows UDS Server 2003 R2

CIFS Yes, CIFS

only

Yes, CIFS only

 Support 32-bit and 64-bit enabled systems

 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 supported w/ ARX V5.2.2

 Server 2008 cluster and Server 2008 R2 cluster are supported w/ ARX v5.1.0 and greater

 Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2 w/ WinRM 2.0 are supported w/ ARX virtual snapshots w/ ARX v5.1.5 and greater

 See F5 ARX DG for Dell for details.

 CIFS ABE is supported with Windows 2012; CIFS ABE is not supported with Windows 2008R2

 Supports original CIFS (SMB) protocol Dell DX

Object Store

Dell DX 5.0.0 CIFS

NFS

No Yes  Requires ARX v6.0.0 or greater for CIFS

 Requires ARX v6.0.0, v6.1.0 for NFS

 Requires ARX Cloud Extender version 1.9.0.2 or greater for CIFS

 Requires ARX Cloud Extender v1.10.1 for NFS

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Platforms Protocols Snapshots ation Vols.

EMC Atmos V1.3.x, V1.4.x REST API CIFS

NFS

No Yes  Requires ARX Cloud Extender v1.8.1.19 or

greater and ARX v5.2.2 or greater for CIFS

 Requires ARX Cloud Extender v1.10.1 or greater for NFS and ARX v6.0.0, v6.1.0 for NFS

 See Deployment Guide F5 ARX DG for EMC Atmos for details.

 Supports original CIFS (SMB) protocol EMC Atmos

GeoDrive

Atmos 2.1.2 with GeoDrive 1.1.3.8 installed on Windows Server 2008 R2

CIFS No Yes  No support for CIFS compressed files or

sparse files

 No ARX Metadata or quorum device on Atmos GeoDrive

 Not supported as an ARX Shadow Volume target

 No filer Sub-share support

 Supports original CIFS (SMB) protocol and SMB 2.0 with ARX v6.4.0

 Tested with ARX v6.4.0. Consult your F5 representative on other ARX versions

EMC Celerra EMC VNX DART 6.0, 5.6, 5.5, 5.4, 5.3 VNX for File 7.0.35, 7.1.56.5 VNX2 8.1.2 CIFS NFS MPNS3 Yes, CIFS & NFS

Yes  Requires ARX v6.0.0 or greater for EMC VNX

 Requires ARX v6.2.0 or greater for ARX Virtual Snapshots for CIFS and NFS  Supports original CIFS (SMB) protocol and

SMB 2.0 with ARX v6.4.0

 No support for NFS UDP in the Virtual Data Mover (VDM)

EMC / Data Domain

5.4, 5.1.1.0 for NFS and CIFS 4.5.2.0, 4.7.3.0 for NFS 4.7.3.0 for CIFS NFS v3 TCP CIFS Yes, CIFS & NFS

No  Requires ARX v5.0.5 or greater for NFS

 Requires ARX v5.1.0 or greater for CIFS

 Requires ARX v5.1.5 or greater for CIFS Virtual Snapshot support with Data Domain v4.7.x.x

 Requires ARX v6.2.0 for ARX Virtual Snapshots for CIFS and NFS with Data Domain OS v5.1.1.x

 No ARX Metadata or quorum device on Data Domain System

 Not supported as an ARX Shadow Volume target

 No CIFS Named Streams support

 No Access-based Enumeration support

 No NFS v3 UDP support by Data Domain

 No Data Domain Retention Lock support

 For CIFS, EMC recommends directory sizes of less than a thousand files when CIFS is the dominant protocol in use. Larger directory sizes will experience slower responses to metadata operations such as listing the files in the directory or opening a file.

 For details on scaling the max number of CIFS connections beyond 300 and tiered storage deployment best practices, see F5 ARX DG for Data Domain and other collateral.

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Supported

6 Network File

Protocols1,2

Virtual Snapshots5

Present-ation Vols. Comments EMC / Isilon OneFS 7.2.0.2, 7.1.0.0, 7.0.1.2

for CIFS

OneFS 7.2.0.2, 7.1.0.0, 7.0.1.2 for NFS

Support for earlier OneFS releases is now deprecated

CIFS NFSv3 TCP NFSv2

No No  Requires ARX v6.2.0 HFRU#2 or greater for

CIFS

 Requires ARX v6.3.0 HFRU#1 or greater for NFS

 No support for Multi-protocol

 CIFS ABE is not supported with OneFS; Isilon has its own Share ABE feature that does not work with ARX.

 No CIFS Compression or CIFS Sparse Files support

 Does not support ARX CIFS Multiplexing feature.

 To host ARX metadata via NFS must enable mount access to subdirectories on Isilon OneFS.No support for NFSv3 UDP based on EMC recommendation; See EMC Best Practices document emc14001361.

 Supports original CIFS (SMB) protocol Hitachi HNAS, powered by Bluearc 11.1, 10.0, 8.1, 7.x CIFS NFS Yes, CIFS only CIFS Yes NFS No

 ARX Virtual snapshots supported with ARX v6.3.0 and greater

 Requires ARX v6.1.1 or greater for HDS HNAS v10.0

 Requires ARX v5.2.2 or greater for CIFS  Requires ARX v5.1.9 or greater for NFS

 Consult your F5 representative for details on Hitachi HNAS support

 Supports original CIFS (SMB) protocol HP X1000, X3000, X5000 and All-in-One (NAS) Storage Systems HP Proliant (NAS)

Windows Storage Server 20087 Windows 2003 Server R2

CIFS Yes, CIFS

only

Yes, CIFS only

 Support 32-bit and 64-bit enabled systems

 Windows 2008 Server supported w/ ARX V5.0.0 and greater

 Supports original CIFS (SMB) protocol

HP Polyserve Version 3.6.1.0536 CIFS No Yes  Supported primarily for CIFS migration use

case.

 Supported in Single-Active mode only; no support for Multi-Active mode support.

 Consult your F5 representative for details on HP Polyserve support.

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IBM N series Data ONTAP 8.1.2 7-mode, 8.1.1 7-mode, 8.1 7-mode, 8.0.5 7-mode, 8.0.4 7-mode, 8.0.3 7-mode, 8.0.2 7-mode 8.0.1 7-mode, 8.0 7-Mode, 7.3.7, 7.3.6, 7.3.5, 7.3.4, 7.3.3, 7.3.2, 7.3.1.1, 7.3.1, 7.3, 7.2.7, 7.2.6.1, 7.2.5, 7.2.4, 7.2.3, 7.1, 7.0.1, 6.5.7, 6.4.5 CIFS NFS MPNS3 Yes, CIFS & NFS

Yes  No support for CIFS sparse files

 For CIFS and Multiprotocol deployments, ONTAP 7.2.6.1 and greater is supported with ARX v3.2.3 and greater; ARX v4.1.1 and greater; ARX v5.0.x and greater.

 No support for mixed-mode qtrees

 Data ONTAP 8.x.x 7-mode releases are supported with ARX v5.1.5 or greater;

 No support for ONTAP 8.x Cluster Mode or ONTAP GX.

 ONTAP 7.3.4 supported with ARX v5.1.7 and greater.

 ONTAP cifs.preserve.unix.security requires ARX v6.0.0 or greater.

 Requires ARX v6.2.0 or greater for ARX Virtual Snapshots for CIFS and NFS

 For IBM N-Series, F5 does not perform compatibility testing with every patch level version of ONTAP, i.e. 7.3.5P1.

IBM 500G AIX 5.2B, 5L NFS No No  Consult your F5 representative for details on

IBM 500G support IBM 300 G02 Windows 2003 Server

Windows 2000 Server

CIFS No No  Supports original CIFS (SMB) protocol

IBM AIX AIX 5.3, 5.2, 5.1 NFS No No  Consult your F5 representative for details on

IBM AIX support IBM Real-time Compression Appliance for NAS (formerly Storwize) 3.7.0 NFS CIFS MPNS

Yes Yes  Requires ARX v5.2.2

 Tested with Storwize STN6500 appliance running v3.7.0

Microsoft Windows Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP17 Windows Server 2008 R27 Windows Server 20087 Windows Server 2003 R2 Windows Server 2003 (SP1, SP2) Windows 2000 Server (SP4)

CIFS Yes, CIFS

only

Yes  Support 32-bit and 64-bit enabled systems

 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 supported w/ ARX v5.2.2

 Server 2012 is supported w/ ARX v6.2.0 and greater; Tested with Microsoft Windows 2012 Standard Server Cluster

 For Server 2008 clusters w/ Firewall feature enabled, users will experience failover delays (See SOL11175 for details).

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Supported

6 Network File

Protocols1,2

Virtual Snapshots5

Present-ation Vols. Comments

NetApp Data ONTAP 8.2.3P3 7-mode,

8.2.2 7-mode, 8.2.1 7-mode, 8.2 7-mode, 8.1.4P1 7-mode, 8.1.3 7-mode, 8.1.2 7-mode, 8.1.1 7-mode, 8.1 7-mode, 8.0.5 7-mode, 8.0.4 7-mode, 8.0.3 7-mode, 8.0.2 7-mode 8.0.1 7-mode, 8.0 7-Mode, 7.3.7, 7.3.6, 7.3.5, 7.3.4, 7.3.3, 7.3.2, 7.3.1.1, 7.3.1, 7.3.0, 7.2.7, 7.2.6.1, 7.2.5, 7.2.4, 7.2.3, 7.1, 7.0.1, 6.5.7, 6.4.5 CIFS NFS MPNS3 Yes, CIFS & NFS

Yes  No support for CIFS sparse files

 For CIFS and Multiprotocol deployments, ONTAP 7.2.6.1 and greater is supported with ARX v3.2.3 and greater; ARX v4.1.1 and greater; ARX v5.0.x and greater.

 No support for mixed-mode qtrees

 Data ONTAP 8.x.x 7-mode releases are supported with ARX v5.1.5 or greater;

 No support for ONTAP 8.x Cluster Mode or ONTAP GX.

 ONTAP 7.3.4 supported with ARX v5.1.7 and greater.

 ONTAP cifs.preserve.unix.security requires ARX v6.0.0 or greater.

 Requires ARX v6.2.0 or greater for ARX Virtual Snapshots for CIFS and NFS

 See F5 ARX DG for NetApp for details.

 For NetApp, F5 does not perform

compatibility testing with every patch level version of ONTAP, i.e. 7.3.5P1.

NetApp Data ONTAP 8.2.2P1 c-mode,

8.2.1 c-mode, 8.2 c-mode

CIFS NFS v3

No CIFS Yes

NFS No

 No support for CIFS compressed files or sparse files

 No filer Sub-share support

 Tested with ARX v6.3.0. Consult your F5 representative on other ARX versions.

NetApp StorageGRID Release 9.0 CIFS No Yes  Requires ARX v6.2.0 or greater

 No support for Named Streams, CIFS compressed files or sparse files

 No support for CIFS Access-based enumeration

 No support for ARX virtual snapshots

 Testing was performed on a SIB v9.0 HA topology

 Consult your F5 representative for details

 Supports original CIFS (SMB) protocol Nirvanix Nirvanix Cloud Storage

Network v2.5.2

CIFS NFS

No Yes  Requires ARX v6.0.0 or greater for CIFS

 Requires ARX v6.0.0, v6.1.0 for NFS

 Requires ARX Cloud Extender version 1.9.0.2 or greater

 Requires ARX Cloud Extender v1.10.1 for NFS

ONStor (LSI) EverON 3.1 CIFS

NFS

No No  Consult your F5 representative for details on

LSI / ONStor support

 NoCIFS Named Streams support

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Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance 7000 Series 2010.08.17.4.0,1-1.31 CIFS NFS

No No  Requires ARX v6.1.0 HFRU#1 for CIFS

 Requires ARX v5.2.2 or greater for NFS  Requires F5 ARX Secure Agent with NTLM

authentication; No support for NTLMv2 or Kerberos authentication for CIFS

 No Filer Sub-share support or MMC support  See Deployment Guide for CIFS F5 ARX

DG for Sun 7000 CIFS for details.

 See Deployment Guide for NFS F5 ARX DG for Sun 7000 for details.

 Consult your F5 representative for details on Oracle’s Sun 7000 support

 Supports original CIFS (SMB) protocol Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 (NFS only), 5.2 (NFS only), 5.0, 4.0, 3.0 CIFS NFS MPNS3,4

No Yes  Consult your F5 representative for details on

Linux support

 CIFS support for RHEL requires Samba.  Samba CIFS compatibility with other file

systems for migration, tiering is limited. Specific compatibility with and support for Persistent ACLs and Named Streams are some of the issues that may arise when combining Samba with other file systems behind the ARX.

 Samba configurations should be reviewed by F5 Sales Engineering; Please submit a copy of smb.conf file to F5 support.

 Supports original CIFS (SMB) protocol Red Hat

Linux

5.5 NFS No Yes  Requires ARX v5.1.7 or greater

Sun Solaris 10, 9, 8 CIFS

NFS MPNS3,4

No No  Consult your F5 representative for details on

Sun support

 CIFS support for Solaris requires Samba.  Samba CIFS compatibility with other file systems for migration, tiering is limited. Specific compatibility with and support for Persistent ACLs and Named Streams are some of the issues that may arise when combining Samba with other file systems behind the ARX.

 Samba configurations should be reviewed by F5 Sale Engineering; Please submit a copy of smb.conf file to F5 support.

 Supports original CIFS (SMB) protocol Notes:

1. F5 Networks supports CIFS, NFS v3 over TCP/UDP and NFS v2 over UDP. There are namespace-configuration options to choose a subset of available protocols.

2. F5 Networks requires all shares within a Presentation Volume to support the same network-file-protocol level(s). In heterogeneous environments, a Presentation Volume uses the highest file-protocol level amongst its file-server shares.

3. F5 Networks supports multi-protocol file sharing (concurrent CIFS and NFS access); referred to as MPNS. “MPNS” appears under the “Network File Protocol” heading for that NAS or file server that supports multi-protocol file sharing through the ARX.

4. CIFS and multi-protocol support on these platforms requires an installed Samba service. See Samba under “Supported Platforms” for more supported operating system levels. 5. F5 Networks only supports virtual snapshots for CIFS namespaces in ARX v3.x and greater.

6. In general, F5 Networks does not provide support for product versions that are no longer supported by the respective vendors themselves.

7. The ARX cannot use NBT (netbios-over-tcp, port TCP/139) to communicate with file servers running Windows Server 2008 or later. For these CIFS file servers, the ARX needs to use native TCP access (TCP/445). This restriction is due to recent changes in CIFS support in the Windows operating system. Since TCP/445 has been the preferred transport for CIFS since Windows 2000, F5 has no plans to remove this restriction.

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Client Host Interoperability

This section lists client hosts, as well as their respective software versions, which have been tested and qualified for interoperability with the F5 ARX. These servers were tested with the F5 ARX series intelligent file virtualization devices running the ARX Data Management Operating System. Please contact F5 Networks to review any client host not listed in this section.

Supported Clients Operating System Level2 Network File

Protocols1 Comments HP HP-UX 10.2 NFS IBM AIX 5.2, 5.1 NFS Mac OS OS X 10.9.2, 10.8, 10.7, 10.6.0, 10.5, 10.4 CIFS NFS

 Mac OSX 10.9.2 supported for CIFS using Constrained Delegation or NTLMv2 with v6.3.0 or greater

 Mac OSX 10.8 supported for CIFS using Constrained Delegation or NTLMv2 with v6.3.0 or greater

 Mac OSX 10.7 supported for CIFS using Constrained Delegation or NTLMv2 with v6.0.0 or greater

 For Mac OSX 10.7 See Solution Note for Finder Issue (SOL13216)

 Also see Solution Note SOL13215 for Mac OSX 10.7 details.

 Kerberos authentication for CIFS using Constrained Delegation supported with ARX v5.2.0 or greater with Mac OS 10.6.2 or greater.

 NTLMv2 is supported with ARX v5.1.0 or greater.

 Consult your F5 representative for details on Mac OS support.

 Supports original CIFS (SMB) protocol OS X 10.6 w/ Thursby

DAVE v8.0.1 OS X 10.5 w/ Thursby DAVE v7.1.2

CIFS  Kerberos authentication for CIFS using Constrained Delegation supported with ARX v5.2.0 or greater with Mac OS 10.6.2 or greater.

 NTLM-only or NTLMv2-only namespace required for CIFS deployments prior to ARX v5.2.0.

 Consult your F5 representative for details on Mac OS support

Microsoft Windows

Windows 8 CIFS  Windows 8 client supported w/ ARX v6.2.0 or greater

Windows 7 CIFS  Windows 7 client supported w/ ARX v5.1.0 or greater

 Supports original CIFS (SMB) protocol and SMB 2.0 with ARX v6.4.0 Vista Business Edition CIFS

2008 R2 SP1, 2008 R2, 2008 SP2, 2008, 2003, 2000, NT, XP

CIFS  Windows Server 2008/2008 SP2 clients are supported w/ ARX v5 or greater

 Windows 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows 2008 R2 support original CIFS (SMB) protocol and SMB 2.0 with ARX v6.4.0

Red Hat Linux Enterprise 6.0, 5.x, 4.x, 3.x AS 4.0, AS 3.0

9, 8

NFS

Samba Client Suse11 samba mount.cifs v4.5

CIFS  Linux Kernel version 2.6.34-12-desktop

 Tested w/ Managed Volumes and Presentation Volumes  Tested NTLM, NTLMv2 and Kerberos authentication  Tested w/ ARX v5.2.2

Stratospherix FileBrowser and NetPortal

FileBrowser for iPad v1.9.1 NetPortal v2.5

CIFS Requires ARX v5.2.2 build 12685.

Tested with iPad OS 4.2.1

Sun Solaris 10, 9, 8 NFS SUSE Linux 9.3 NFS Kyocera Copier/Scanners KMC2525, KMC3232, KMC3232E, KMC4035E

CIFS Requires ARX v4.1.0 or later, with the cifs anonymous-access command enabled.

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8 2. In general, F5 Networks does not provide support for product versions that are no longer supported by the respective vendors themselves.

Ethernet Switch and Infrastructure Interoperability

This section lists Ethernet switches and other network infrastructure which have been tested and qualified for interoperability with the F5 ARX. These servers were tested with the F5 ARX series intelligent file virtualization devices running the ARX Data Management Operating System. Please contact F5 Networks to review any Ethernet switch option not listed in this section.

Supported Gigabit Switches Comments

F5 Networks BIG-IP

F5 Networks BIG-IP WAN Optimization Manager (WOM)

Requires BIG-IP v11.1 HF2 or v11.2 or greater Tested ARX v6.2.0 with BIG-IP v11.1 HF2 on BIG-IP 3900 appliances

Topology tested had F5 ARX with one file server local and with other file server remotely connected across the F5 BIG-IP WOM enabled network.

Cisco Catalyst 6500, 3750

Cisco Nexus (S/W version 4.0(0)N1(1)) Multi-Chassis Ether Channel (MCEC) support via “static EtherChannel” configuration; No support for LACP in single Nexus or MCEC configurations.

Extreme Networks Summit 200, 5i Foundry Networks FastIron HP Procurve

Supported 10 Gigabit Switches w/ ARX v4.0.1 or greater F5 Networks BigIP 10GBASE-SR

Cisco 4948 Cisco X2 SR 10-gig Module

Cisco Nexus Multi-Chassis Ether Channel (MCEC) support via LACP

supported with Cisco Nexus S/W v5.0(2)N1(1). Tested at UNH via 802.3ad LACP interop test suite.

Multi-Chassis Ether Channel (MCEC) support via “static EtherChannel” configuration w/ Nexus S/W v4.0(0)N1(1) Force 10 S50N 10-gig SR Module HP Procurve 2900, 3400, 3500, 4205, 5400, 8100 10GBASE-SR Procurve X2 Extreme 10G4Xa 10GBASE-SR Intel SR XFP Netgear GSM7328S 10GBASE-SR Netgear XFP Nortel 5530-24TFD 10GBASE-SR Intel SR XFP SMC 8708L2

Supported 10 Gigabit NICs w/ ARX v4.0.1 or greater Chelsio NIC

10GBASE-SR Intel XFP Intel NIC

10GBASE-SR Infineon XPAK Netirion NIC

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10 This section lists NAS and file servers, as well as their respective software versions, which have been tested and qualified for interoperability with F5 Data Manager V3.01.000 File Server Discovery and ARX configuration features. File System Inventories can be performed on any NAS server supporting the standard CIFS and NFS protocols.

Please contact F5 Networks to review any Data Manager versions, NAS or file server option not listed in this section. Supported

Platforms2 Operating System Level

Network File

Protocols Comments

EMC Celerra DART 5.6, 5.5, 5.4, 6.0 CIFS

NFS

DART 6.0 requires DM v3.01.x.

IBM N series Data ONTAP 7.3.x, 7.2.x, 7.1.x, 7.0.1, 6.5.7

CIFS NFS

IBM 500G AIX 5.2B, 5L NFS

IBM 300 G021 _{Windows 2003 R2 Server} Windows 2003 Server Windows 2000 Server CIFS IBM AIX 5.3, 5.2, 5.1 NFS Microsoft Windows1 Windows 2008 R2 Server Windows 2008 Server Windows 2003 R2 Server Windows 2003 Server Windows 2000 Server

CIFS  Windows 2008 Server requires DM v2.5.x or higher.

 Windows 2008 Server Cluster requires DM v2.06.000 or higher.

NetApp Data ONTAP 7.3.x, 7.2.x,

7.1.x, 7.0.1, 6.5.7

CIFS NFS

 NetApp ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode is not supported by DM v3.00.000. Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5.x, 4.x, 3.x NFS

Solaris Solaris 10, 9 NFS

ARX Cloud Extender

1.8.1 CIFS ARX Cloud Extender requires DM v3.01.x.

Notes:

1. Microsoft Windows™ provides localized versions of its Windows operating system. For Data Manager, each distribution must be qualified separately. Currently Data Manager provides support for the following language distributions: Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, German, Czech , Russian, French, Spanish.

2. A generic discovery method has been added that allows Data Manager to enumerate the shares and exports on non-qualified file servers.

F5 Data Manager Server Requirements

Data Manager v3.01.000 is a web-based application that can be installed and run on any Microsoft Windows platform that meets the following set of minimum requirements:

Resources Minimum Requirement

Operating System

Windows operating system: XP, Vista, Windows 7, 2003 Server, 2003 R2 Server, 2008 Server, 2008 R2 Server

Data Manager requires that Windows 2003 machines have Service Pack 1 (SP1) installed. This guarantees the inclusion of Microsoft Windows Installer 3.1 (MSI 3.1) or higher.

Windows 2000 is not supported for installation of DM v2.6.0 or greater, Data Manager cannot be installed on a server acting as an Active Directory Domain Controller

CPU Pentium 4 or equivalent. Dual-core server is recommended.

Memory 2GB available RAM. 4GB is recommended.

Disk Space 1GB for the application, data, and logging

Web Browser Microsoft Internet Explorer®: version 8.x. For Internet Explorer version 8 (IE8): disable Compatibility View for Data Manager web pages. Mozilla Firefox Version 3.x.

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Domain Controller and Secure Agent Interoperability

This section lists the Microsoft Active Directory Domain Controllers which have been tested and qualified for interoperability with the F5 ARX. Supported

1 _Comments Microsoft Windows Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2003 R2 Windows Server 2003

This section lists Windows platform versions which have been tested and qualified for interoperability with the F5 ARX Secure Agent (F5 ARX SA). Supported

1 _Comments Microsoft Windows Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2008 SP2 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2003 R2 Windows Server 2003 (SP2, SP1) Windows 2000 (SP4)

 Support for Windows 2012 requires 5.1.7 HF4 ARX SA.  Windows 2008 R2 SP1 supported with ARX v5.2.2

 With ARX V3.2.0 and greater, the F5 ARX SA is packaged in two separate versions for either 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 2003 DC systems.

Notes:

1. In general, F5 Networks does not provide support for product versions that are no longer supported by the respective vendors themselves.

ARX Virtual Edition Requirements

This section lists hypervisor platforms which have been tested and qualified for interoperability with the F5 ARX Virtual Edition (ARX VE).

Supported Platforms Hypervisor Comments

ARX VE Trial-ware VMware ESX/ESXi Server 4.0 Update 2

VMware ESX/ESXi Server 4.1 VMware Vsphere 5

1 virtual CPU (64-bit), 2 GB RAM, 40GB disk space, 1 Gigabit virtual (VNIC) interface

The hypervisor where you install ARX VE must support OVF templates for its VM installations. VMware ESX and VMware ESXi support OVF templates, but desktop and end-user versions (such as VMware Player) do not.

ARX VE Department version

VMware ESX/ESXi Server 4.0 Update 2

VMware ESX/ESXi Server 4.1 VMware Vsphere 5

2 virtual CPU (64-bit), 4 GB RAM, 40GB disk space, 1 Gigabit virtual (VNIC) interface

The hypervisor where you install ARX VE must support OVF templates for its VM installations. VMware ESX and VMware ESXi support OVF templates, but desktop and end-user versions (such as VMware Player) do not.