9.1

Installation Overview 2
This section discusses the system requirements for installing the vFabric Postgres Standard Edition (vPostgres)
software, followed by an overview of the installation steps.
The vPostgres server and client software is distributed together as an Open Source Virtual Appliance (.ova)
file, and as a series of .rpm files.
System Requirements
You can install the server .ova file on the latest edition of any VMware Virtualization Platform, such as VMware
vSphere 5.x, VMware Workstation 8.x, VMware Fusion 4.x, or VMware Player 4.x to perform development
tasks and run tests.
In a production environment, it must be installed on VMware vSphere 5.x.
The host where you install the .ova file or the virtual machine where you install the .rpm files must include
the resources listed in the following table.
Table 2-1. Resource Requirements
RAM vCPUs Disk Space
Minimum 512 MB 1 12 GB
The vPostgres product provides custom JDBC, ODBC, and LIBPQ drivers that work with both Standard Edition
(stand alone) and Studio (Data Director integrated) deployments.
Table 2-2. Supported Database Clients
Included Clients 32-bit 64-bit
Windows X X
Linux X X
MAC OSX X X
Many community PostgreSQL clients, such as Npgsql, and psycopg2 are also supported in both 32- and 64-bit
configurations.
Note that if you are using the 'File DSN' option to create an ODBC connection, you must observe the following
syntax rules when adding the server name.
The keywords and their values should not contain the []{}(),;?*=!@ characters. The value of the DSN keyword
cannot consist only of blanks and should not contain leading blanks. Because of the registry grammar,
keywords and data source names cannot contain the backslash (\) character. Spaces are not allowed around
the equal sign in the keyword-value pair.
VMware, Inc.
9