Requirements

Build your cloud with commodity hardware

OnApp Cloud has very modest requirements. You can build your cloud on almost any commodity hardware. 

Minimum hardware requirements

  • 1 x OnApp Controller server

  • The Controller Server manages your cloud and hosts the OnApp Control Panel.

    > 8GB RAM (16GB+ recommended)
  • > Dual or Quad Core 2Ghz+
  • > 100GB Raid 1
  • > 2x Gig NIC
  • > CentOS 5 or 6 (x64)

  • 2 x  Hypervisor servers 

  • Hypervisors host virtual machines and provide their hardware resources.

    > 8GB RAM 
  • > Quad Core 2Ghz+
  • > 30GB HD (SSD recommended)
  • > 3x Gig NIC (4 recommended)
  • > CentOS 5 or 6 (x64)
     

  • 1 x SAN

  • The primary storage device for your cloud.

    > 1TB block storage
  • > iSCSI, AoE or Fiber
    > Can even be on a shared SAN

  • 1 x Backup server

  • Backup servers store virtual machine snapshots and templates, and handle disk-related activities such as VM provisioning and backup processes.

    > 4GB RAM (8GB+ recommended)
  • > Dual or Quad Core 2Ghz+
  • > 2TB Storage mounted locally
  • > 2x Gig NIC
  • > CentOS 5 or 6 (x64)

Network requirements

Check out the recommended network configurations for different combinations of Xen, KVM, VMware and storage. 

Speccing your cloud

With the full version of OnApp Cloud you get free advice and support to work out the best way to deploy clouds on your hardware, and we're more than happy to advise you when it comes to speccing your servers and SANs. We've put together a few different hardware configurations for your cloud, too, to give you a good starting point.