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System Center Advisor System Requirements

What do you need in order to use System Center Advisor? Check out the following information to prepare for Advisor:

Supported operating systems

Agents and gateways are supported on the following 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2:

  • Windows Server 2008 Datacenter

  • Windows Server 2008 Enterprise

  • Windows Server 2008 Standard

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter without Hyper-V

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise without Hyper-V

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard without Hyper-V

  • Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

Required software

The Advisor on-premise software requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.

For Windows Server 2008, you can download this package from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=131605.

For Windows Server 2008 R2, you can enable the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 feature by using Server Manager. For more information see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=133158.

The agent can be installed on Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 or the Server Core installation option of Windows Server 2008 R2 after you enable .NET Framework 3.5.1. Use the following command to install the .NET Framework:

DISM /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3-ServerCore-WOW64

After you have installed the .NET Framework 3.5.1 on Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 or the Server Core, install your Advisor software from the command line, as described in Install the Gateway and Agent from the Command Line.

Supported browsers

The following browsers are supported:

  • Windows Internet Explorer 7 (or a later version)

  • Mozilla Firefox 3.5 (or a later version)

Regardless of the browser you use, you must also install Microsoft Silverlight 4.

Supported technologies for analysis

Advisor analyzes the following workloads:

  • Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2:

    • Active Directory

    • Hyper-V Host

    • General operating system

  • SQL Server 2008 and later

    • SQL Engine

  • Microsoft SharePoint Server 2012

  • Microsoft Exchange Server

  • Microsoft Lync Server 2010

For SQL Server, the following 32-bit and 64-bit editions are supported for analysis:

  • SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Enterprise

  • SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Standard

  • SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Workgroup

  • SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Web

  • SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Express

In addition, the 32-bit edition of SQL Server is supported when running in the WOW64 implementation.

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