H3C Technologies H3C VMSG VFW1000 - Manual (Page 11)

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Preparing for the installation
The installation requirements, preparation, and procedure for the VFW1000 and the VLB1000 are
similar. This document uses the VFW1000 as an example.
Virtual machine hardware configuration
requirements
Table 3 shows the minimum virtual machine hardware configuration requirements.
Table 3 Virtual machine hardware configuration requirements of the VFW1000
Item VFW1000
Processor One vCPU (main frequency≥ 2.0 GHz)
Memory 1 GB
Hard disk One vHD, 8 GB
Network interface card Two virtual NICs at least. Up to 16 virtual NICs are supported.
Virtual NIC types
• E1000 (VMware ESXi and Linux KVM)
• VMXNET3 (VMware ESXi)
• VirtIO (Linux KVM)
• Intel 82599 VF (VMware ESXi and Linux KVM)
Software configuration requirements
• Install the virtual machine platform software, for example, VMware ESXi, Linux KVM platform, or
H3C CAS, on the physical server.
• Install the virtual machine client software, for example, VMware vSphere Client, on the local PC.
Table 4 Virtual machine platform software version requirements of the VFW1000
Virtual machine platform software Software versions compatible with the VFW1000
VMware ESXi VMware ESXi 4.1, 5.0, and 5.1
Linux KVM
Linux KVM (Linux Kernel > 2.6.25), the recommended Linux
distributions:
• CentOS 6.3
• Fedora 17
• Ubuntu 12.10
• RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.3
• SUSE Server 11SP2