Requirements for Unix Environments

Supported Operating Systems

Delphix supports all 64-bit OS environments for source and target.

Additional Source Environment Requirements

• There must be an operating system user (delphix_os) with these privileges:

• Ability to login to the source environment via SSH

• There must be a directory on the source environment where you can install the Delphix platform Toolkit – for example, /var/opt/delphix/toolkit.

• The delphix_os user must own the directory

• The directory must have permissions -rwxrwx--- (0770), but you can also use more permissive settings

• The delphix_os user must have read and execute permissions on each directory in the path leading to the toolkit directory. For example, when the toolkit is stored in /var/opt/delphix/toolkit, the permissions on /var, /var/opt, and /var/opt/delphix should allow read and execute for "others," such as -rwxr-xr-x.

• The directory should have 1.5GB of available storage: 400MB for the toolkit and 400MB for the set of logs generated by each client that runs out of the toolkit

• On a Solaris host, gtar must be installed. Delphix uses gtar to handle long file names when extracting the toolkit files into the toolkit directory on a Solaris host. The gtar binary should be installed in one of the following directories:

• /bin:/usr
• /bin:/sbin:/usr
• /sbin:/usr/contrib
• /bin:/usr/sf
• /bin:/opt/sfw
• /bin:/opt/csw/bin

• The Delphix Engine must be able to initiate an SSH connection to the source environment

Additional Target Environment Requirements

• There must be an operating system user (delphix_os) with these privileges:

• Ability to login to the target environment via SSH

• The following permissions are usually granded via sudo authorization of commands.
• See Sudo Privilege Requirements for further explanation of the commands and  Sudo File Configuration Examples for Unstructured Files on Unix for examples of the /etc/sudoers file on different operating systems.
  • The primary user for the target environment must have the ability to run mount, unmount, mkdir, and rmdir as a super-user on any directory mounted to by the Delphix Engine.
  • If the target host is an AIX system, permission to run the nfso command as a super-user
• There must be a directory on the source environment where you can install the Delphix Engine Toolkit - for example, /var/opt/delphix/toolkit.

• • The delphix_os user must own the directory

  • The directory must have permissions -rwxrwx--- (0770), but you can also use more permissive settings

  • The delphix_os user must have read and execute permissions on each directory in the path leading to the toolkit directory. For example, when the toolkit is stored in /var/opt/delphix/toolkit, the permissions on /var, /var/opt, and /var/opt/delphix should allow read and execute for "others," such as -rwxr-xr-x.

  • The directory should have a total of at least 800MB of storage, plus 1MB of storage per vFile that will be provisioned to the target

• On a Solaris host, gtar must be installed. Delphix uses gtar to handle long file names when extracting the toolkit files into the toolkit directory on a Solaris host. The gtar binary should be installed in one of the following directories:

• /bin:/usr
• /bin:/sbin:/usr
• /sbin:/usr/contrib
• /bin:/usr/sf
• /bin:/opt/sfw
• /bin:/opt/csw/bin

• There must be an empty directory (/delphix) that will be used as a container for the mount points that are created when provisioning a vFile to the target environment. The group associated with the directory must be the primary group of the delphix-os user. Group permissions for the directory should allow read, write, andexecute by members of the group.

• The Delphix Engine must be able to initiate an SSH connection to the target environment.

• NFS client services must be running on the target environment