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Chapter 2. Prerequisites

CloudStack has the following hardware and software requirements:
Table 2.1. Prerequisites
Description Minimum Requirements
Management Server Hosts the Cloud.com CloudStack Management Server software.
  • 64-bit x86 CPU
  • 2 GB of memory
  • 80 GB of local disk
  • At least 1 NIC
  • RHEL/CentOS 5.4+ 64-bit or RHEL6 64-bit
  • Statically allocated IP address
  • Fully qualified domain name as returned by the hostname command
Host Provides all the CPU and memory resource for allocated guest virtual machines.
  • 64-bit x86 CPU
  • Hardware virtualization support required
  • 4 GB of memory
  • 30 GB of local disk
  • At least 1 NIC
  • Statically allocated IP Address
  • Citrix XenServer 5.6, RHEL/CentOS 5.6 (64-bit), Fedora 14 (64-bit), or RHEL6 (64-bit)
Secondary Storage Provides storage for templates and snapshots
  • NFS storage appliance or Linux NFS server
  • 100GB minimum capacity
Database Node
  • May be co-located with the Management Server
  • Otherwise requirements identical to Management Server

Note

Hardware should be certified to work by the hypervisor vendor. See the vendor's documentation for more information
Red Hat maintains this information at: https://hardware.redhat.com
Citrix maintains Xen hardware compatibility at: http://hcl.xensource.com