HCP VM hardware requirements

HCP VM systems can be configured in two ways: standard and small instance.

Standard HCP VM configuration

The following are needed to deploy a standard configuration:

• A shared SAN storage using a RAID 6 system
• A minimum of four 1.2 TB LUNs
  Note: Due to the overhead associated with disk formatting and database storage, the estimated usable storage available with this minimum is approximately 3.66 TB.
• A minimum of four HCP VM nodes
• A minimum of two 500 GB VMDKs on each HCP VM node
• A minimum of eight virtual CPUs on each HCP VM node
• A minimum of 32 GB of RAM on each HCP VM node
  Note: To avoid the possibility of slowing system performance, do not commit more than 256 GB of RAM for an HCP VM node.
• Two physical NICs on each KVM host dedicated to the HCP back-end network
• Two physical NICs for the KVM management network and HCP VM front-end network
• Two-port Fibre Channel HBA cards for shared SAN storage connectivity (when applicable)
• A minimum of 2 GB of physical RAM for KVM host management

Small-instance HCP VM configuration

A small-instance HCP VM system has the same requirements as a standard configuration with the following exceptions:

• A minimum of 4 virtual CPUs on each HCP VM node
• A minimum of 16 GB of RAM on each HCP VM node

A small-instance deployment can support:

• Five tenants
• 25 namespaces
• A single active/passive replication link
• An ingest duty cycle of 12 hours per day, 5 days per week

Other factors can affect whether the small-instance deployment meets your performance requirements, such as heavy metadata query engine (MQE) querying or object and folder counts above published maximums.