Eucalyptus Compatibility Matrix

This compatibility matrix details supported platforms in Eucalyptus 4.0 software.

Compute compatibility

OS and Hypervisors Version Architecture
Centos+KVM 6.5 x86_64
RHEL+KVM 6.5 x86_64
VMware ESXi 5.1 x86_64
VMware vCenter 5.1 x86_64

Guest operating systems

OS Type Version/Edition Architecture
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise i386/x86_64
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Datacenter i386/x86_64
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter i386/x86_64
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter x86_64
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional x86_64
All modern Linux distributions Redhat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, SLES, OpenSUSE, etc. i386/x86_64

Network modes

Networking Mode Description
Edge

Layer 2 and 3 VM isolation; uses built-in DHCP service.

Requires that any external DHCP service be isolated from guest VMs.

Managed

Layer 2 and 3 VM isolation; uses built-in DHCP service.

Requires a cloud switch to forward a configurable range of VLAN-tagged packets, and requires that any external DHCP service be isolated from guest VMs.

Managed (No VLAN)

Layer 3 VM isolation; uses built-in DHCP service and requires that any external DHCP service be isolated from guest VMs.

Object Storage Compatibility

Storage Array Type/Series Version HA Support
Riak CS Open source enterprise 1.4.5 Yes

Elastic Block Storage Compatibility

Storage Array Type/Series Version HA Support Notes
NetApp SAN

FAS 2000 series

FAS 3000 series

FAS 6000 series

8.1.2 Clustered Data ONTAP or 7-mode Yes FlexClone and iSCSI licenses required.
Dell EqualLogic SAN

PS 4000 series

PS 6000 series

Compatible CLI versions Yes  
EMC VNX series FLARE v5.32 Yes Navisphere CLI 7.32.0.5.54 or higher required.
Direct attached storage Any DAS-JBOD N/A No Linux SCSI target framework is required.
Local disks Local overlay filesystem N/A No Linux SCSI target framework is required.
Remote disk N/A N/A No Linux SCSI target framework is required.

Minimum Hardware Requirements

Front end components

Cloud Controller, Walrus, Storage Controller, Cluster Controller:

8 Cores, 2.4GHz, 8GB RAM, 500GB Disk space. (multiple disks in a RAID 5/10 recommended).

High availability (HA) configurations must be equal in capacity.

Node controllers

4 Cores, 2.4GHz, 8GB RAM, 160GB Disks (multiple disks recommended).

Note: Hardware virtualization must be enabled in the BIOS.

Euca2ools

We recommend using Euca2ools 3.1 against Eucalyptus version 4.0.

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