With Tivoli SANergy 2.2, MDCs must be running either Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Red Hat Linux, or Solaris. The MDC's role is to manage user authentication, disk volume access control and file system locking operations. With that information, the SANergy host computers go across the SAN and access the files directly themselves. Typically, most SANs today are built of Fibre Channel but SANs built of SSA, SCSI and now even Gigabit Ethernet also work fine with SANergy. The following are the specific system requirements.
All computers require a CD-ROM for software installation.
For Linux MDCs, SANergy supports EXT2FS formatted volumes or any other Tivoli SANergy API-compliant file system.