Eucalyptus Compatibility Matrix

Compute compatibility

OS and Hypervisors	Version	Architecture
Centos+KVM	6.6	x86_64
RHEL+KVM	6.6	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.

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	1.5.1	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
Ceph RDB	Any CentOS/RHEL machine with disk, compute and network resources	0.80.5-9	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 3.2 with Eucalyptus version 4.1.