Openfiler is compatible with 64-bit industry standard server hardware. It can also be installed in a virtual machine environment as a guest OS in Citrix XenServer, and VMware vSphere.
For production deployment in either virtualized or bare-metal configuration, we recommend 64-bit Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron architecture processors for best performance.
Bare Metal Installation
| Recommended Specifications |
- 64-bit 1.6GHz or higher performance processor
- 16GB or higher of RAM
- 8GB disk space for memory swap area
- 16GB disk space for Openfiler OS installation
- 1Gb Ethernet network interface
- Separate storage volumes/disks for data export
- Hardware RAID controller
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Virtualization Installation
| VMware specifications |
Xen/parallels specifications |
- 64-bit VMware hypervisor
- VMware Player, VMware Server, VMware ESX compatible
- Symbios or Buslogic virtual SCSI disk driver
- IDE virtual disk driver
- 8GB minimum virtual RAM
- Virtual network interface
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- 64-bit hypervisor / VMM
- Raw, LVM, or virtual block device
- 8GB minimum virtual RAM
- Virtual network interface
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