Hardware and Software Requirements

Hardware Requirements

To successfully deploy the Cloud Infrastructure Automation, you need the following:

One CentOS hardware node to store the Instance Manager (the Cloud Infrastructure control center).
One CentOS hardware node to store the Instance Manager database.
One CentOS hardware node to host the CI APS backend.
At least one virtualization node to host your customers' virtual servers (Linux containers, Linux/Windows virtual machines).
At least one backup node to store backups and images of virtual servers. Please note that a backup node should be a separate node; you can't use a virtualization node as a backup node.

The Cloud Infrastructure Automation is compatible with CloudBlue Commerce components, running the following software:

Component	Supported Software
CloudBlue Commerce management node	CentOS/RHEL 7.2 or later (x64)
Instance Manager node	CentOS 7.x (x64) For more information about the requirements for the Instance Manager node, refer to the Requirements.
Instance Manager database node	CentOS 7.x (x64) For more information about the requirements for the Instance Manager database node, refer to the Requirements.
CI Endpoint node	CentOS 7.x (x64) For more information about the requirements for the CI Endpoint node, refer to the Setting Up CI Endpoint Node.
Virtualization nodes	Virtuozzo 6.0 update 11 or later, Virtuozzo 7.0 OpenVZ 7
Backup nodes	Virtuozzo 6.0 update 11 or later, Virtuozzo 7.0
Virtual servers	For the list of operating systems that you can run in virtual servers, refer to Virtuozzo User's Guide >>Managing Virtual Machines and Containers > Creating Virtual Machines and Containers > Supported Guest Operating Systems. You can also try using the other operating systems in virtual servers, but the Cloud Infrastructure Automation has not been extensively tested with them.
Web browsers	You can use the latest versions of the following web browsers to work with Cloud Infrastructure Automation: Internet Explorer Firefox Chrome Safari Other web browsers may also work fine with Cloud Infrastructure Automation, although they have not been tested with CloudBlue Commerce.