1.2. Hardware Requirements for Single Compute Node Installations¶

Normally, Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform is installed on at least 5 nodes to fully utilize its built-in high availability and data redundancy capabilities. However, if you only want to create a virtual machine, you can deploy a very basic Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform compute installation on a single virtual or physical node. Although in this case you may need to provide data redundancy by other means or risk losing data. You can do the following:

• Use a virtual machine (VM) with 2 virtual HDDs. In this case, only one HDD will be used for data storage and, if necessary, you may need to make sure that the VM is made redundant by the virtualization solution it runs on.
• Use a physical server with at least 2 disks. Have in mind that you will need to use more disks for storage to enable data redundancy. For more details on how to plan your server configuration, see the Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform Installation Guide.

Other minimal requirements are:

• 100 GB or higher capacity for each HDD/SSD;

• 64-bit x86 processors with AMD-V or Intel VT hardware virtualization extensions enabled, 16 logical CPUs;

  Note

  A logical CPU is a core (thread) in a multicore (multithreading) processor.

• 32GB RAM;

• 1GbE or faster network interface with a static IP address.