SymplyPRO SAS Product Family System Requirements



macOS


Requirement 

Version

Apple Hardware

Intel or Apple Silicon

 

Available PCIe slot or Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis

Operating System

macOS 11 and later

 

Driver support for the chosen SAS HBA.

SAS Host Bus Adapter

Suitable HBA that supports LUN scanning and TLR

IBM ITFS Software

2.4.5.1 10503 1

MacFUSE (required for LTFS)

Vendors latest version 1


1 Required for LTFS support


Windows OS 


Requirement 

Version

Windows Hardware

Suitable hardware with available PCIe slot

SAS HBA

Suitable HBA that supports LUN scanning and TLR


Driver support for the chosen operating system

Operating System

Microsoft Windows 11 and 10

 

Windows Server 2022, 2019, and 2016

IBM ITFS Software

2.4.5.1 10503 1


1 Required for LTFS support


Linux OS

Requirement 

Version

Linux Hardware

Suitable hardware with available PCIe slot

SAS HBA

Suitable HBA that supports LUN scanning and TLR


Driver support for the chosen operating system

Operating System

Rocky Linux 8/9


CentOS 7


OpenSUSE LEAP 42/15


Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7/8/9


SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12/15


Ubuntu 20.04/22.04 LTS.

 

Driver support for the chosen SAS HBA.

IBM ITFS Software

Version 2.4.5 1


1 Required for LTFS support


 NOTE

Some host adapters that are also RAID controllers do not support tape drives.


It is important that the host adapter support TLR.


If you have any problems please submit a support ticket at support.gosymply.com