Platforms and operating systems

Replication Agent 15.1 software requires one of the platforms and operating system versions listed in Table 1. All of these platforms, except HP Itanium, are supported in both 32-bit and 64-bit mode. HP Itanium is supported only in 64-bit mode.

Future releases of Replication Agent will phase out support for 32-bit platforms.

**Table 1: Platform and operating system requirements**
Platform	Operating system version
HP PA-RISCa^{, b}	HP-UX 11iR2
HP Itanium^b	HP-UX 11.31
IBM RISC System/6000^b	IBM AIX 5.3
Linux/Intel^b	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0:Kernel version 2.6.9-22.EL Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0:Kernel version 2.6.18-8.e15 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9:Kernel version 2.6.5-7.241 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10: Kernel version 2.6.16.21-0.8
Microsoft Windows	Windows Server 2003 5.2.3790 Windows Server XP Professional 5.1.2600 Windows Server Vista 6.0.6000
Sun Solaris (SPARC)^b	Sun Solaris 9, 10
a. HP PA-RISC is currently supported, but in a future release, Sybase will discontinue support.
b. Replication Agent for Microsoft SQL Server is not supported on any UNIX or Linux platforms. It is supported only on Microsoft Windows.

Before you install the Replication Agent 15.1 software, you must install the most recent operating system patches recommended by your operating system vendor for Java 5.0 support.

Table 2 lists the minimum physical memory, storage, and media device requirements on the Replication Agent host machine. Your Replication Agent configuration may require more memory and disk space than the minimums listed in Table 2.

**Table 2: Memory, disk space, and media device requirements**
Memory	Disk space	Media device
512MB RAM	300MB hard disk	CD-ROM drive