Vision Requirements

Vision supports installation and operation on both physical servers and virtual machines (VMs) functioning as servers. To properly install and use Vision on a physical or VM server, ensure the following requirements are met.

For detailed instructions on installing or upgrading Quantum Vision, see Vision Installations and Upgrades.

Make sure that the Vision server, which hosts Vision software, meets the requirements outlined below.

Server Component

System Requirement

Processor
  • Intel or AMD server class processor
  • 2 CPUs for up to 50 devices
  • 4 CPUs for more than 50 devices

Memory
  • 4 GB for monitoring up to 50 devices
  • 8 GB for monitoring more than 50 devices

Available Disk Space
  • 200 GB for monitoring up to 50 devices
  • 400 GB for monitoring more than 50 devices

Operating System

One of the following operating systems:

  • Windows Server 2003 32-bit
  • Windows Server 2003 R2 64-bit
  • Windows Server 2008 32-bit
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit
  • Windows Server 2012 Standard 64-bit
  • Windows Server 2016 Standard 64-bit
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 32-bit
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 64-bit
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 64-bit
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linus 7 64-bit
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 4

Virtual Appliance
  • Server system with at least an i7 quad-core Intel processor (or AMD equivalent)
  • 2 virtual CPUs for up to 50 devices
  • 4 virtual CPUs for more than 50 devices
  • At least one IP address available for use by the Vision appliance
  • One or more ESX4, ESXi4, ESXi5, or ESXi 6 servers
  • Same memory requirements as that of a physical server installation

Additional Software

(Windows only) Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or higher

Before using Vision, you need to open and enable specific firewall ports on the Vision server.

For Vision to operate correctly, open the following firewall ports:

  • Port 80 - Web server (http)
  • Port 443 - Web server (https)
  • Port 162 - SNMP

To enable monitoring of storage devices, open the following firewall ports to outgoing traffic:

  • Port 80 - Web server (http)
  • Port 443 - Web server (https)
  • Port 22 - SSH

Note: Ports 80 and 443 are the default web server ports. If you specified different web server ports when installing Vision software, open those ports in the firewall instead. For more information about specifying the web server ports during installation, see Vision Setup and Configuration.

Before running Vision software on your system, review following browser requirements:

  • Vision 4 is designed to run in any modern Web browser that supports the Adobe Flash Player plug-in.
  • Vision 4.3.5 and later requires Adobe Flash Player version 11.4 or higher. Web browser software is not included with Vision. You must obtain and install it separately. To download and install Flash Player, go to http://www.adobe.com.
  • Vision does not support the 64-bit version of the Flash Player plug-in on Linux. Instead, use the 32-bit Flash Player plug-in and a 32-bit browser. For 64-bit Linux, the Chrome browser and its built in pepper flash player are compatible with Vision.

To discover and monitor a Quantum backup system in Vision, the system must be a Quantum-supported device. Vision supports the following devices:

DXi Devices Scalar Devices Virtual Devices
  • DXi8500 disk backup system
  • DXi7500 disk backup system
  • DXi6000 series (DXi6500, DXi6700, DXi6800, DXi6900, and DXi6900-S) disk backup systems
  • DXi4000 series (DXi4500, DXi4600, DXi4700, DXi4800) disk backup systems
  • DXi9000 series (standard and high density) disk backup systems
  • Scalar i6000 library
  • Scalar i2000 library
  • Scalar i500 library
  • Scalar i80 library
  • Scalar i40 library
  • Scalar LTFS
  • Scalar i3 library
  • Scalar i6 library
  • Q-Cloud Protect

  • DXi V-Series (DXi V1000, DXi V2000, and DXi V4000) virtual backup systems

  • vmPRO 4000 (software/hardware backup solution)
  • vmPRO virtual backup system

Q-Cloud Protect and DXi Requirements

Review the following special requirements for Q-Cloud Protect and DXi 6900.

If you are using Vision to monitor Q-Cloud Protect, you must configure the network connection between your Q-Cloud Protect instances, your on-site DXi appliances, and your Vision server within the same VPC-private network. For more information, see the VPC-Private Network Connections topic in the Q-Cloud Protect Documentation Center.

For Vision to gather replication data for Q-Cloud Protect appliances or DXi devices running software versions 3.2 or later, it needs to identify itself through an SSH key pair.

Vision generates this key pair. The private key is Vision's secure identifier. The public key is shared with the Q-Cloud Protect appliance or DXi device. Vision has authorization to gather replication data only when the private and public keys match. For more information, see Configure Security Settings for Vision.