1 Overview
HP Storage SAN Designer (SAN Designer) provides a quick and easy way to design Storage Area
Network (SAN), and obtain a SAN design along with a detailed list of SAN components.
SAN Designer 1.6 offers the following features:
• Provides support for 3PAR, P6300 and P6500 arrays.
• Provides an intuitive, simple, and easy to use, graphical user interface to design SANs
• Enables you to design SAN based on performance, cost, and future growth needs
• Enables you to compare your SAN with respect to cost and performance
• Simplifies initial SAN implementation and helps reduce SAN infrastructure cost and complexity
• Generates a report containing SAN topology, device list, and a high level summary of the SAN
Hardware and software requirements
This section discusses the hardware and software requirements for installing SAN Designer.
• 25 MB of free disk space for installation
• To use SAN Designer, the following applications must be installed on a host where SAN Designer
is installed:
• Java 2 Runtime Environment (JRE), SE v1.5 or later
• Microsoft Excel viewer
• Microsoft Visio viewer
Table 1 lists the hardware requirements.
Table 1 Hardware requirements
RecommendedMinimumItem
Pentium IVPentium IIIProcessor
256 MB128 MBRAM
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