System Requirements

ExaVault is delivered as a virtual appliance. You are responsible for provisioning a physical environment and hypervisor in which to run the ExaVault appliance.

ExaVault currently requires a 64-bit Intel processor and is not supported on ARM environments (such as AWS Graviton instances).

The ExaVault Virtual Appliance is tested and supported in the following virtual environments:

• VMware ESXi 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x

• Microsoft HyperV

• Amazon AWS

• Microsoft Azure

• Linux KVM

Within the hypervisor or cloud system of your choice, you will need to provision the following minimum resources:

• CPU: 4 cores at 2.4 GHz or greater

• Memory: 12 GB of memory (RAM)

• Primary Disk Drive: 100 GB

• Data Disk Drive: This is up to the customer. It is recommended to be as large as your environment can support. All data on the appliance is saved to this drive. A minimum of 500GB is recommended to start with.

The minimum supported instance sizes on AWS are c5n.xlarge , m6i.xlarge, or m7i.xlarge.

You will also need a static (or rarely-changing) IP address because your installation's license is associated with its IP address. Frequent updates to the appliance's IP address will invalidate the license.

Because workloads are highly variable across our customer base, it is tough for us to provide sizing guidance beyond these minima. We recommend that you monitoring RAM and CPU usage and upscale instances when either of these resources appear constrained.