Technical Documentation
VM Installation
This document presents recommended settings for installing the Nasuni Filer on a virtual machine. This is excerpted from the Nasuni Filer Initial Configuration Guide .
The minimum recommended virtual machine resources for running the Nasuni Filer are as follows:
Limit
Minimum free disk space to run the Nasuni Filer.
Minimum required memory on a VM host.
Minimum recommended memory on a VM host.
Nasuni Filer Virtual Machine memory.
Nasuni Filer Virtual Machine cores.
Value
352 GB
4 GiB
6 GiB
4 GiB
2 default, 2+ for optimal performance
The current maximum cache size for the Nasuni Filer is 500 TiB. However, each platform also has its own maximum cache size. The following table lists the maximum cache size (by platform) that is supported by the Nasuni Filer. Visit VMware features and Hyper-V features for the most complete information.
Virtualization Platform
VMware ESXi 5.x, 6.0
NOT using VMFS-5
VMware ESXi 5.x, 6.0
Microsoft Hyper-V
Microsoft Azure
Amazon EC2
Maximum Cache Size
2 TiB
62 TiB (using VMFS-5)
64 TiB (using physical Raw Disk Mapping (RDM)
(aka “pass through disks”))
2 TiB (Server 2008)
500 TiB (using “pass through disks”) (Server 2008)
64 TiB (using VHDX) (Server 2012)
64 TiB (Server 2012 R2)
1 TiB
1 TiB for hard disks, 16 TiB for SSDs
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Technical Documentation
VM Installation
Note: Caches that are created less than 16 TiB can be resized, but never larger than 16
TiB. Caches that are created greater than or equal to 16 TiB cannot be resized.
Note that you can configure pass-through disks on VMware and Hyper-V.
The following table lists the maximum number of CPU cores (by virtual platform) that are supported by the Nasuni Filer.
Virtualization Platform
VMware ESXi 5.0
VMware ESXi 5.1, 6.0, and later
Microsoft Hyper-V
Maximum CPU Cores
32
64
4 (Server 2008)
64 (Server 2012 and Server
2012 R2)
The following table lists the maximum RAM (by virtual platform) that is supported by the Nasuni Filer.
Visit VMware features and Hyper-V features for the most complete information.
Virtualization Platform
VMware ESXi 5.x, 6.0
Microsoft Hyper-V
Maximum RAM
1 TB
64 GB (Server 2008)
1 TB (Server 2012)
4 TB (Server 2012 R2)
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