Minimum server requirement

[steverdavidson]

Could I successfully implement vcloud with 4 esxi servers?  The reference architecture documents suggets 3 for management piece and 8 for consumption but I don't see anywhere that that much hardware is required.

[MauroBonder]

Check here http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vcd_15_install.pdf

or http://www.vmware.com/support/vcd/doc/rel_notes_vcloud_director_15.html#sysreqs

i´ll read this guide to check if have this infomartion, but, may is interessant for you - http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2012/01/vmware-vcloud-director-15-performance-and-best-practices...

[JayhawkEric · Accepted solution]

You could "successfully" deploy it with only one ESXi server if that will handle all of the VM's you will be running within vCD.  You first need to determine how many VM's, what resources they will use, growth potential, and the type of hardware you want to use.  Then you can come up with how many hosts you'll need.  I started with 2 and am growing to 11.

[steverdavidson]

Thanks to both of you.

So I started reading the configuration guide and I see that the only platform supported for the vCloud Director Server Operating System is Redhat!?

Really?!  How cool is that!!!!!

[JayhawkEric]

You can use CentOS as well but it is not "supported" if you have technical issues.  We use CentOS in our lab/testing environment without any issues.