System Requirements
Foglight Performance Analysis for SQL Server is Oracle Exadata and SPARC SuperCluster Ready!
Before installing Foglight Performance Analysis 7.0, ensure your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:
Client Requirements
| Platform | Pentium III (Pentium IV recommended) or compatible processor |
| Memory | Dedicated Client: 512 MB of RAM minimum
Shared Client: 1024 MB of RAM minimum
Note: The memory required may vary based on the following:
- Applications that are running on your system
- Size and complexity of the database
- Amount of database activity
- Number of concurrent users accessing the database
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| Hard Disk Space | 450 MB of disk space required for a full installation, which includes 200 MB download of temporary setup files that can be removed at the completion of the installation.
Notes: - The disk space required may vary based on options selected for installation
- Database files extracted from a backup require additional storage space depending on the size of the database
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| Monitor | VGA with a minimum resolution of 1024x768, small fonts |
| Printer | Optional for printing graphs and reports |
| Mouse | Required for accessing all features |
| CD drive or Internet connection | Required for installation only |
| Oracle Client | A 32-bit Oracle Client Version 8i and above.
Note: Oracle Instant Client and 64-bit Oracle Clients are not supported |
| Operating System | - Windows 2000 (SP3 or later)
- Windows XP (SP1 and SP2)
- Windows 2003 (R1 and R2)
- Vista (Business/Enterprise)
- Windows 7
- Windows 2008 (up to R2)
- Oracle Linux 5.5
- Oracle Solaris 11
* Note: only 32-bit environments are supported for client installations |
| Browser | Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later |
| Citrix Support | - Platform Level - MetaFrame XP 1.0 Server for Windows
- Feature Release - MetaFrame XP 1.0, Feature Release 1 through 4
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Server Requirements
| UNIX/Linux Platforms | UNIX - IBM AIX 64-bit versions 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1
- HP-UX 64-bit versions 11.11, 11.23 and 11.3
64-bit Itanium version 11.23 and 11.3 - Sun Solaris SPARC (64-bit) versions 2.8, 2.9 and 2.10
- Sun Solaris x64 version 2.10
Linux - RedHat AS 32-bit versions 2.1, 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0 (10g and up)
- RedHat AS 64-bit (x64) versions :3.0, 4.0 and 5.1, 5.3 (10g and up), 5.5, 5.6 (unbreakable Linux), 5.7
- RedHat 32-bit versions 8.0 (with application of the glibc-2.3.2-4.80.8 or later patch) and 9.0
- SUSE 32-bit versions 8 and 9
64-bit (x64) versions 9, 10 and 11
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| CPU | According to the Hardware requirements document accessible through the document library. |
Memory | According to the Hardware requirements document accessible through the document library. |
Hard Disk Space | According to the Hardware requirements document accessible through the document library. |
| Windows platforms and operating system | - Windows platforms
- Intel X86 machines
- Intel X64 machines
- Itanium machines
- Windows operating systems
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP (up through SP2)
Windows 2003 Windows 2008 (up to R2)
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| Oracle Instance | Foglight Performance Analysis supports monitoring 64-bit Oracle versions only with the exception of Windows and Linux which enable 32-bit monitoring as well
Starting from Oracle version 11G, the AMM mechanism is supported when used on the supported Linux flavors |
| Oracle Exadata | Foglight Performance Analysis is fully tolerant of Oracle Exadata |
| CD/DVD drive or Internet connection | Required for installation only |
| PeopleSoft Versions | 8.0 or later |
| Oracle Applications Versions | - 11.0.x
- 11i or later (11.5.5 or later for E-Business advisories)
- R12
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| Performance Repository | Oracle version 9i or later with bitmap indexes supported. Customers who wish to run the Performance Repository on Oracle Database Standard Edition should refer to the Repository_Installation_on_Oracle_Standard_Edition.pdf document, on support link.
The Performance Repository requires an Oracle database configured to 8K block size |
Supported Platform Matrix
Platform/
Oracle Version
| AIX | Solaris
SPARC (64-bit) | Solaris
Intel/AMD
(64-bit) | Linux
64 bit | Linux
32 bit | HP-UX
Itanium | HP-UX
| Windows
32 bit | Windows
64 bit | Windows
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Note: As of Foglight Performance Analysis version 6.5, Linux Itanium is no longer supported.
Quest Software also supports Foglight for Oracle on Oracle Exadata Database Machine and SPARC SuperCluster
Support for Oracle version 11g on Linux 32-bit requires ES/AS 4 (update 3 or higher, Nahant 3).
Quest Software periodically extends the support for new database and platform versions. For registered Quest SupportLink users, click here to view and download the latest support patch updates.
Performance Repository Requirements
Foglight Performance Analysis requires 2.5GB of free disk space on the repository host in order to create the repository database – 2GB for data files and 512MB for transaction log files. An additional allocation of 2GB of free space is required for each additional instance that is attached to this Performance Repository.