6.2 Prerequisites and Requirements for Installing Designer

6.2.1 Prerequisites for Installing Designer

Before installing or upgrading Designer, review the following considerations:

  • To install Designer on a computer running an openSUSE 64-bit operating system, your environment must meet the following prerequisites:

    • Before installing Designer, you must install the 32-bit Novell International Cryptographic Infrastructure (NICI) Package.

    • You must install all libraries from openSUSE.org, particularly bug-buddy, gtk2 (32-bit), and libgthread.

    • You must install the libgthread-2_0-0-32bit-2.17.2+2.17.3+20080708+r7171-3.1.x86_64.rpm compat library before installing Designer.

    • You must install the 32-bit version of the gtk2 RPM library, even if you install Designer on a computer running a 64-bit operating system.

  • Before installing Designer on a computer running a Linux operating system, you must install the GNU gettext utilities. These utilities provide a framework for internationalized and multilingual messages. For more information about language support, see Section 5.5, Understanding Language Support.

  • You cannot use Designer 2.1x workspaces for Designer 3.0 or later because older workspace versions are not compatible with more recent versions of Designer. Designer stores projects and configuration information in workspaces. For example, Designer 4 workspaces are installed in the following directories by default:

    • Linux: $HOME/designer_workspace

    • Windows XP: %UserProfile%\designer_workspace

    • Windows Vista and Windows 7: %UserProfile%\designer_workspace directory for

  • If you want to upgrade Designer and you are running workflow provisioning and provisioning with roles, review the upgrade procedure in Migrating a 4.0 User Application Driver in the Migrating to the Roles Based Provisioning Module Version 4.0.2.

6.2.2 System Requirements for Installing Designer

This section provides requirements to help you set up the server hosting Designer.

Category

Requirement

Processor

1 GHz

Disk Space

1 GB

Memory

1024 MB

Operating System

One of the following operating systems, at a minimum:

  • openSUSE 11.4 (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • openSUSE 10.3 (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4 (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • Windows 7 SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

  • Windows Server 2008 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)

  • Windows Vista Business (32-bit and 64-bit)

  • Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32-bit)

  • Windows XP Professional SP3

Virtualization Systems

One of the following systems running a supported operating system unless otherwise noted:

  • VMware ESXi Workstation 6.5 running SLES 11 SP1 as the host operating system

  • VMware ESXi 5.0 (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • VMware ESXi 4.0 (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • VMware ESX 4.0 (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtualization with Hyper-V (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • Xen Virtual Machine running SLES 10, SLES 11, or Windows Server 2008 R2 as a guest operating system in para-virtualized mode and SLES 10 SP2 as the host operating system

NOTE:IThe VMware ESX and ESXi systems can also run the VMware version of SLES 11 SP2 (64-bit) as the guest operating system