UCP Advisor resource requirements

Unified Compute Platform (UCP) Advisor Software Installation Guide
Version
4.5.x
Audience
anonymous
Part Number
MK-92UCP120-13

UCP Advisor installation requires the following resource requirements:

Master Node VM

Note: When you deploy Hitachi-UCPAdvisor-4.5.0.ova, the resource requirements for the Master Node VM are automatically configured.
Resource Minimum requirement
Operating system Oracle Linux 8.8
RAM 32 GB or more
CPU Minimum 8 cores. 16 cores recommended
Disk Two thin-provisioned disks of 550 GB and 200 GB respectively.
Create the following partitions on the 550 GB disk:
  • /boot with 2 GB
  • /root with 500 GB
  • /home with 38 GB
  • swap with 10 GB
Note: Verify that the /boot, /root, and /home partitions use the xfs file system.
Free Disk Space
  • 400 GB under the / (root) directory
  • 300 GB under the /var directory
  • 200 GB for creating LVM snapshots.
Network 1 vNIC (connect to Management VLAN VMXNET3)
Supported virtualization host ESXi 7.0.2 or later

Bare metal server

Resource Minimum requirement
Operating system Oracle Linux 8.8
RAM 32 GB or more
CPU Physical CPU with minimum 8 cores. 16 cores recommended
Disk Two thin-provisioned disks of 550 GB and 200 GB respectively.
Create the following partitions on the 550 GB disk:
  • /boot with 2 GB
  • /boot/efi with 1 GB
  • /root with 500 GB
  • /home with 40 GB
  • swap with 1 GB
Note: Verify that the /boot, /root, and /home partitions use the xfs file system.
Free Disk Space
  • 400 GB under the / (root) directory
  • 300 GB under the /var directory
  • (Optional) 200 GB for creating LVM snapshots.
    Note: Do not create any partitions on this device that is set aside for LVM snapshots.
Network 1 vNIC (connect to Management VLAN )

Gateway VM

Resource Minimum requirement
Operating system Oracle Linux 8.8
RAM 4 GB
CPU 2 vCPUs
Disk Minimum 100 GB (thin-provisioned disk)
Network 1 vNIC (connect to Management VLAN VMXNET3)
Supported virtualization host ESXi 7.0 or later