# System and Software Requirements

This page documents the system and software requirements for the NetApp Manageability SDK client.

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### System Requirements:

The NetApp Manageability SDK supports the following client platforms:

Operating System | Versions
`Windows 32-bit` | `2000, 2003, 2008`
`Windows 64-bit` | `IA64, X64`
`Red Hat Linux (32-bit and 64-bit)` | `AS V4, ES V4, V5`
Oracle Enterprise Linux | 4.0, 4.8, 5.4
`SUSE Linux (32-bit and 64-bit)` | 9.0, 10.0, 11.0
`Solaris SPARC (32-bit and` 64-bit) | 10.0
`Solaris x86 32-bit` | 10.0
Solaris x64-bit | 10.0
`AIX (32-bit and` 64-bit) | 5.2, 5.3, 6.1
`HP-UX 32-bit` | `11.11 and later`
VMware ESX server | 3.0, 3.5, 4.0

### Software Requirements:

The NetApp Manageability SDK supports C, C++, Java, Perl, C#, VB.NET, PowerShell, Python, and Ruby on the client-side. The SDK supports the following software versions:

Language | Software requirements
C, C++ | Visual Studio 2005 for Windows.
| For debug version, use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 SP1 8.0.50727.762.
The following compilers are supported on UNIX-like platforms: To compile applications on a 32-bit UNIX-like environment, use GNU Make and GNU C/C++ Compiler. To compile applications on the 64-bit UNIX-like environment, use GNU C/C++ Compiler 3.2 or later.
Java | Sun Microsystem Java 1.4, 5.0, 6.0 HP-UX Java 1.4, 5.0, 6.0 AIX Java 1.4, 5.0, 6.0 Note: Java 5.0 and later supports the IPv6 feature
Perl | Perl 5.8, 5.10 On aix-thread-multi, install the "expat" module, which is the XML parser.
C#, VB.NET | Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5
PowerShell | PowerShell 1.0 Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5
Python | Python 2.7.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x
Ruby | Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.2

| To use the Data ONTAP management APIs, storage systems should run Data ONTAP 6.3 or later.

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### Web services dependency:

To use Web services sample codes, you must have Apache CXF (apache-cxf-2.2.4), and Java 5.0 or later installed on your system.

To compile and execute the Web services sample codes in C#, install Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 with C#.

### Browser support matrix for Help:

The Help system supports the following browser for different platforms:

Operating system | Browser
Windows | Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 Mozilla Firefox 3.0, 3.5
Solaris | Mozilla Firefox 3.0, 3.5
Linux | Mozilla Firefox 3.0, 3.5
AIX | Mozilla Firefox 3.0, 3.5
HP-UX | Mozilla Firefox 3.0, 3.5

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