Installation Guide

Table 1 Installation process (continued)
Additional resourcesInstallation step
See “Resource Configuration in CloudSystem
Foundation: Compute node creation” in the
Stage and prepare compute nodes. This guide does not cover
the specific steps required to accomplish this.
HP CloudSystem 8.0 Administrator Guide
at Enterprise Information Library
See “Cloud service provisioning,
deployment, and service management in
Build and manage cloud resources. This guide does not cover
the specific steps required to accomplish this.
CloudSystem” in the HP CloudSystem 8.0
Administrator Guide at Enterprise
Information Library
Hardware requirements
Hardware requirements for management hypervisors, compute nodes, virtual appliances, and SAN
and Storage are provided in this section.
Physical configuration hardware requirements
Management hypervisors
The following table lists the recommended and minimum hardware requirements for a single ESX
or KVM management hypervisor. Only HP servers are supported as management hypervisors.
In an HA configuration, both the primary and failover hypervisors must meet the hardware
requirements described in this table.
Table 2 Management hypervisor hardware requirements
StorageRAMCoresRequirements
See the formula below.128 GB16 coresRecommended
See the formula below.96 GB8 coresMinimum supported
Formula to determine the storage requirements for the management hypervisor
The formula used to determine the management hypervisor storage requirements is appliance
storage + glance images/snapshots = management hypervisor storage
• appliance storage: 600 GB
25 GB for templates◦
◦ 160 GB (3) for the Foundation base appliance, vCenter proxy appliance and Enterprise
appliance
◦ 20 GB (3) for the network node appliances
◦ 25 GB for the SDN appliance
• glance images/snapshots: varies
Table 3 Glance repository sizing guidelines
TOTAL
Snapshots (20 GB
each)
Windows images (16
GB each)
Linux images (4 GB
each)Glance repository
520 GB151015Small
1.2 TB401520Medium
10.1 TB5003025Large
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