Minimum Requirements


Your system must meet the following minimum requirements for installing Parallels Pro Control Panel.
Requirement	Description
Operating system	Any of the following operating systems: FC 6 (Fedora™ Core 6), FC 4, CentOS 4.x (Community Enterprise Operating System 4.x), CentOS 5.x, RHEL 5 (Red Hat® Enterprise Linux ES Release 5), RHEL 4 ES, RHEL 4 AS. Note: FC 4 operating system is supported only with 32-bit architecture, and all other operating systems are supported with both 32-bit and 64-bit architecture.
File system	EXT3 Important: Quotas may not function as intended if you use other file systems.
RAM	256 MB
Processor	Intel Pentium® II or III processor, class 500 MHz or above or any Intel-compatible CPU of 500 MHz speed or above
Disk space	At least 40 GB. You may want to customize your disk partitions to manage the available disk resources on the target server. For information on customizing disk partitions, refer to the document Parallels Pro Control Panel for Linux Technical Reference Guide at the Parallels Pro Control Panel for Linux Documentation page (http://www.parallels.com/en/pro/docs).
Disk partition	`/boot`: At least 75 MB `/`: All of the remaining disk space as Parallels Pro Control Panel uses the `/home` directory to store the site information. You may want to customize your disk partitions to manage the available disk resources on the target server. For information on customizing disk partitions, refer to the document Ensim Pro for Linux Technical Reference Guide at the Parallels Pro Control Panel for Linux Documentation page (http://www.parallels.com/en/pro/docs).
Security Level	When installing the operating system, firewall is enabled by default. Ensure that you disable this option, before proceeding with the installation.
Connectivity	Network connectivity with Internet access.
FTP access	Required if you want the installer to obtain the installation files from Parallels Pro Control Panel FTP server or your local FTP server.
License	You need a valid license key before you can install Parallels Pro Control Panel. When you buy Parallels Pro Control Panel from the Parallel Pro Control Panel online store (http://www.parallels.com/en/buyonline/pro/), you receive the license key in the order confirmation email from Parallels.
Other requirements	"root" user access The system files `/etc/hosts`, `/etc/resolv.conf`, `/etc/sysconfig/network`, and `/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0` on the target server must include the entries as specified below. If the entries are not present, use an editor to modify the files. `/etc/hosts file` ---/etc/hosts begin file-- 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 1.2.3.4 myhost.mydomain.com myhost ---/etc/hosts end file-- Important: If you use the -x option with the installer to specify the network interface on which sites are to be provisioned, make sure that you add the IP address of the interface as the first entry in the /etc/hosts file before running the installer. `/etc/resolv.conf` file ---/etc/resolv.conf begin file-- primary_name_server ip_address secondary_name_server ip_address ---/etc/resolv.conf end file-- `/etc/sysconfig/network` file ---/etc/sysconfig/network begin file-- NETWORKING=yes DOMAIN=mydomain.com HOSTNAME=myhost.mydomain.com GATEWAY=ip_address_gateway ---/etc/sysconfig/network end file-- `/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0` file ---/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 begin file-- DEVICE=eth0 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=IP_address_host_server NETMASK=netmask_value (please check with your service provider) GATEWAY=ip_address_gateway ---/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 end file--