Cloud Storage Gateway V1.2.0 User's Guide

A.1 Virtual Appliance Specifications

Resource	Requirements
Physical CPU	Intel Xeon
Virtual CPU	Required	2CPU
	Recommended	3CPU or more
Memory	Add the following to the 6.0GB Datastore per 1TB, 0.6 GB 8 MB per SMB connection
Server virtualization software	For VMware vSphere	VMware vSphere 6.0 VMware vSphere 6.5 VMware vSphere 6.7 VMware vSphere 7.0 Redundant configuration: VMware vSphere High Availability
	For KVM	Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux(R) 7.3 (for Intel64) Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux(R) 7.4 (for Intel64) Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux(R) 7.5 (for Intel64) Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux(R) 7.6 (for Intel64) Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux(R) 7.7 (for Intel64) Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux(R) 8.1 (for Intel64) Redundant configuration: Non-supported
	For Hyper-V	Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2019 Redundant configuration: Non-supported
	IaaS Redundant configuration: Non-supported	Amazon EC2
		Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
Network adapter	For VMware vSphere	VMXNET3
	For KVM	Virtio
	Hyper-V	None
	Amazon EC2	None
	Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines	None
Virtual disk	System area	100 GB
	Data area	Greater than or equal to (cache capacity + 1MB). However, it should be at least 20 GB. Each virtual disk must be at least 1G in size.
	VMware vSphere (hard disk)	Disk Provisioning: Thick Provisioning (Eager zeroed) Virtual device nodes: SCSI RAID1 + 0 is recommended for the disk area when deploying virtual disks
	KVM (Storage volume)	Format: Raw Bus Type: VirtIO RAID1 + 0 is recommended for the disk area when deploying virtual disks
	Hyper-V (Virtual hard disk)	Format: "VHDX" recommended Type: Fixed size RAID1 + 0 is recommended for the disk area when deploying virtual disks
	Amazon EC2 (EBS volume)	Volume type: "General Purpose SSD" recommended
	Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines	Disk type: "Standard SSD" recommended

Note

Live Migration is not supported.