poolIt System Requirements
System Requirements
Each system on which you install poolIt must meet the minimum system requirements for the respective operating system:
Windows machines:
- PC with 800-megahertz (MHz) 32-bit (x86) processor or 800-MHz 64-bit (x64) processor
- Microsoft Windows® XP/Server® 2003/Vista/Server® 2008/Windows 7/Server® 2008 R2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- 512 megabytes (MB) of RAM
- 20MB of available hard-disk space for installation
- Video adapter and monitor with Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher resolution
- pdf viewer for viewing poolIt documentation (like Adobe Reader, for example)
- Internet connection for activating the product
Mac OS X machines:
- Intel-based Mac with 1.83GHz or more CPU
- Mac OS X Leopard/Leopard Server, Mac OS X Snow Leopard/Snow Leopard Server (32-bit and 64-bit), Mac OS X Lion/Lion Server (64-bit).
- 512 megabytes (MB) of RAM
- 20MB of available hard-disk space for installation
- Video adapter and monitor with Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher resolution
- pdf viewer for viewing poolIt documentation (like Adobe Reader, for example)
- Internet connection for activating the product
File Systems Requirements
poolIt is storage and vendor agnostic. To be a supported pool member a file system must be mounted with Read and Write permissions on your computer and if it is on a directly attached device it must be listed in Windows Disk Management.
Here are examples of storage:
| Windows | Mac OS X | |
|---|---|---|
| NTFS volumes | OK | only through metaSAN |
| HFS+ volumes | only through metaSAN | OK |
| Internal or external RAID | OK | OK* |
| USB/Firewire drives | OK | OK* |
| USB stick | OK | OK* |
| NAS | OK | NO |
| RAM Disk | OK** | OK* |
| CD/DVD | NO | NO |
* HFS+ formatted only
** as long as the RAM disks are listed in Windows Disk Management
Important: poolIt does not manage the boot volume(s) of your computer.
