Virtual Appliance Server Specification

Overview

This article explains the required specification for Virtual Servers (Hosts). See the VMWare How To Guide for further information.

Server Specifications

The minimum requirements for a Virtual Machine Host server, this applies to Swivel 2.0.x, 2.x and 3.x appliances.

Typical Swivel Appliance Specification would be:

• 2GB RAM
• 1 Dual/Quad core CPU
• 80GB HDD
• VMware ESX/ESXi 4 or above
• Hyper-V 2008 R2 or 2012 R2
• Citrix Xen Server 6.2 (Swivel Appliance v2.1 and v3)

Thin Mode Deployment

VMware allows Swivel servers to deploy with a minimal 10Gb config and then expand. This is useful for testing and small deployments.

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