UnityVSA is a Unity XT software-defined storage appliance installed on VMware ESXi to run on premise. UnityVSA is a software download direct to your VMware ESXi server. When fully implemented, UnityVSA takes advantage of Unity XT’s all-inclusive software to run NAS and SAN workloads with high availability in the data center with the same management interface as Unity XT.
UnityVSA virtual machine requirements:
2-core single-SP deployment requirements:
Virtual memory: 12GB
Virtual processor cores: 2 (2GHz+)
Virtual network adapters: 6 (4 adaptors for I/O, 1 for management, 1 for system use)
Community and Professional Edition licenses
2-core Dual-SP deployment requirements:
Virtual Memory per SP: 12GB
Virtual processor cores per SP: 2 (2Ghz+)
Virtual network adapters: 9 (4 adaptors for I/O, 1 for management, 1 for system use, 3 for internal communication)
VLANs: 3 (used for heartbeat and internal communication)
Professional Edition license only
12-core Dual-SP deployment requirements:
Virtual Memory per SP: 96GB
Virtual processor cores per SP: 12 (2Ghz+)
Virtual network adapters: 9 (4 adaptors for I/O, 1 for management, 1 for system use, 3 for internal communication)
VLANs: 3 (used for heartbeat and internal communication)
Professional Edition license only
UnityVSA Infrastructure requirements:
Hypervisor: VMware ESXi 6.5+ with each UnityVSA VM on a separate ESXi host
Dual-SP deployment requires vCenter 6.5+
Hardware Memory for 2-core deployment: 36GB per ESXi host
Hardware Memory for 12-core deployment: 120GB per ESXi host
Hardware network: 3 x 10GbE
Hardware RAID: 512MB NV cache RAID card, battery backed recommended
VMware datastores: NFS and VMFS supported