Requirements

Build your SAN with commodity hardware

OnApp Storage has very modest hardware requirements. You can use build your SAN using commodity disks and servers.

The minimum recommended server specs are:

  • OnApp Controller Server

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

  • Hypervisor servers

    8GB+ RAM*
    Quad Core 2Ghz+
    30GB HD (any commodity SATA or SSD drives)
    4 x Gig NIC
    CentOS 5

* Please note that a small amount of hypervisor RAM is required by OnApp Storage, which cannot be assigned to VMs.