Pre-requisites for installing ViPR?

ViPR is deployed as a virtual appliance. It can be deployed in a 3-VM or 5-VM configuration.

VMWare Requirements

ViPR deployment requires administrative rights to the VMware Virtual Center.

Before you deploy ViPR, you must have the following VMware software installed and

configured:

- VMware vCenter Server running in the vSphere environment.

- An installed VMware ESX or ESXi server 5.0.x, 5.1.x, or 5.5.x running in the vSphere

environment, and VMFS 5.

- An installed vSphere Client from which you can access your vCenter Server.

- A location accessible to the vSphere client with a minimum of 1.6 GB of free space to

store the files needed to deploy the ViPR virtual appliance. Additional disk space

should be reserved for the virtual appliance snapshots.

- DRS-enabled cluster or resource pool in a DRS-enabled cluster.

- Datastore on shared block storage. Solid State Drive (SSD) or 10K RPM Fibre Channel

for production environments. NL-SAS for non-production environments. Datastore

should be backed by a RAID 1+0 for production environments, or a RAID 6 for nonproduction

environments.

- Read/write latency for ESX and ESXi datastores should average 10ms or less.

Controller Virtual Machine Requirements: 3-VM or 5-VM configurations are supported

- 16 GB RAM per VM (dedicated)

- 4 vCPUs per VM

- Each vCPU = 1 physical core of Intel Xeon E5 or E7 families with 2.4 GHz or higher speed

- 600 GB disk space per VM

- Thick provisioned eager zeroed is recommended for production environments.

- Thin provisioned is acceptable for non-production environments.

- 1 Gbps network bandwidth available to each VM

Object data services Virtual Machine requirements: From 1 to 1000 VMs

- 32 GB RAM per VM

- 8 vCPUs per VM

- 150 GB of disk space per VM

- Thick provisioned eager zeroed is recommended for production environments.

- Thin provisioned is acceptable for non-production environments.

- 10 Gbps network bandwidth available to each VM

Network Latency

Between ViPR Controller VMs: Less than 1ms

Between ViPR Virtual Appliance and providers (such as SMI-S providers and FC switches): Less than 50ms

Between ViPR Controller and Object Data Service VMs: Less than 400ms

Prerequisites for ViPR UI

The UI runs on a variety of web browsers.

- Google Chrome

  Version: 31, 32

  OS: Windows

- Internet Explorer

  Version: 9, 10, 11

  OS: Windows (Compatibility mode must be off)

- Mozilla Firefox

  Version: 25, 26

  OS: Windows

  Notes: - Enable cookies and pop-ups

         - Disable all add-ons

         -  Enable JavaScript

Prerequisites for ViPR CLI

The ViPR CLI can run on supported Linux and Windows computers.

Although the ViPR CLI is available on a ViPR Controller VM, it is recommended that you install and run it on a different computer.

Written in Python. Supported Versions: 2.6.6, 2.6.8, 2.7.3

Note: The Python EZ Setup tools package must be installed on the host.

Supported operating systems:

- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.x

- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.4

- SUSE Linux 11 Service Pack 2

- SUSE Linux 11 Service Pack 3

- Windows 7

- Windows 8