OnApp Cloud requirements

OnApp Cloud has very modest software and hardware requirements. You can build your cloud on pretty much any commodity hardware.

Minimum requirements

1 x OnApp Control Panel server

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

2 x Hypervisor servers

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

1 x Data store

• 1TB block storage
• iSCSI, AoE or Fiber – it can even be on a shared SAN

1 x Backup store

• 2TB+ NAS
• Alternatively, a large HD can be used on the Control Panel server

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. We can also help you spec your servers and SANs. Here's a real-world example of an OnApp customer's cloud hardware shopping list.

Network configuration

For a schematic of an OnApp network, see our network configuration page and deployment scenarios page, with diagrams illustrating public, private and other cloud set-ups with OnApp.