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 requires a 64-bit Intel processor. ARM environments, including AWS Graviton instances, are not supported.

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: Sized at your discretion. All data on the appliance is saved to this drive, so make it as large as your environment can support. We recommend starting with at least 500 GB.

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.

Workloads vary widely across our customer base, so sizing guidance beyond these minima is hard to give in the abstract. Monitor RAM and CPU usage and upscale the instance when either resource is constrained.