Platforms and operating systems

Replication Agent 15.2 software requires one of the platforms and operating system versions listed in Table 1.

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

**Table 1: Platform and operating system requirements**
Platform	Operating system version
HP-UX Itanium^a	HP-UX 11.31 (64-bit only)
IBM RISC System/6000^a	IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1 (64-bit only)
Linux/Intel^a	Linux x86 and x64^b: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4:Kernel version 2.6.9-42.EL Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1:Kernel version 2.6.18-8.e15 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10: Kernel version 2.6.16.21-0.8
Microsoft Windows	Windows x86 and x64^b: Windows Server 2003 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server XP Professional Windows Server Vista 6.0.6000
Sun Solaris (SPARC)^a	Sun Solaris 9, 10 (64-bit only)
a. Replication Agent for Microsoft SQL Server is not supported on any UNIX or Linux platforms. It is supported only on Microsoft Windows.b. Replication Agent binary is 32-bit word size that runs on both the 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.

Before you install the Replication Agent 15.2 software, you must install the most recent operating system patches recommended by your operating system vendor for Java 6.0 support. For more information, see “Operating system patch requirements”.

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 drive