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VMware vCloud Director Evaluator’s Guide
3. System Requirements
3.1 Hardware Requirements
This guide makes the following assumptions about your existing physical infrastructure:
Servers:
You have at least two dedicated ESXi™/ESX® servers running vSphere 4.0 U2 or vSphere 4.1 to provide resources
for the private cloud—in other words, for running workloads deployed with VMware vCloud Director.
1
Storage:
You have at least two dedicated datastores available. It is preferred to have two datastores of dierent
characteristics, for example, Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI, or one large and one small, or even simply fast,
medium and slow storage.
2
Networking:
You have at least one network on a vNetwork Distributed Switch to which the private cloud hosts are connected.
You have External Network connectivity through one or more uplinks on the VMware vNetwork Distributed
Switch. You will also need a block of IP addresses valid on this network. The number of IP addresses depends on
the number of virtual machines you will deploy onto this network using VMware vCloud Director.
For more detailed requirements see the table below:
HARDWARE MINIMUM RECOMMENDED WHAT ’ S U S E D
IN THIS GUIDE
ESXi/ESX
Servers
2 ESXi/ESX servers
CPU — 2 processors
of 1500MHz
Memory — 1GB
Network —1Gb NIC
Minimum of 3 ESXi servers
for a small environment
CPU — 2 dual-core
processors of 1500MHz
Memory — 16GB
Network — 2Gb NIC
4 ESXi servers
CPU —2 quad core
processors of 2600MHz
Memory — 24GB
Network — 1Gb NIC
Storage 2 datastores (300GB
each)
Multiple datastores
(ranging from 300GB to 1TB
each in size)
3 datastores (1 x NFS, 1 x
iSCSI, 1 x FC — 300GB
each)
Network 1 VLAN for carrying
VM trac
Separate VLANs for
management, IP storage
and vMotion and one VLAN
for each type of VM trac
Separate VLANs for ESX
management, vMotion and
IP Storage, and one VLAN
for VM trac
Table 3-1-1.
TheseserversshouldnotbeusedtorunVMwarevCloudDirectorvCenterServerorothermanagementvirtualmachinesrequiredtoinstalland
configurethecloudEnsureyouhaveenoughadditionalcapacity(computestorageandnetworking)toinstallandconfigureVMwarevCloudDirector
VMwarevShieldManagerVMwarevCenterServerandassociateddatabases
ThisstorageshouldnotbeusedtostoreVMwarevCloudDirectorvCenterorothermanagementvirtualmachinesEnsurethattheaboveserverscan
accessthisstorageEnsureyouhaveadditionalstoragecapacitytoinstallandconfigureVMwarevCloudDirectorVMwarevShieldManagerVMware
vCenterServerandassociateddatabases
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