Eucalyptus Compatibility Matrix

This compatibility matrix details supported platforms in Eucalyptus 4.4 software.

Compute compatibility

OS and Hypervisors Version Architecture Notes
CentOS+KVM 7.3, 7.4 x86_64 Eucalyptus 4.3 was the last release series where RHEL / CentOS 6 was a supported OS.The Eucalyptus 4.3 series provided the opportunity, through instance migration tools, to migrate your existing Eucalyptus clouds to RHEL / CentOS 7.
RHEL+KVM 7.3, 7.4 x86_64 See above note.

Java

Component Version Notes
JVM 1.8.0 Java 8 supported as of the Eucalyptus 4.3 release.

Guest operating systems

OS Type Version/Edition Architecture
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 Version Notes
EDGE

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

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

N/A  
VPCMIDO

AWS VPC on-premise equivalent; in partnership with Midokura. Midokura Enterprise MidoNet (MEM) is a commercial version with 24/7 support - 30 day evaluation available.

MEM v5 series

Eucalyptus tested and validated using MEM 5.2.1.

Also tested with:
  • Cassandra22 (dsc22) ver. 2.2.8
  • ZooKeeper ver. 3.4.8

We will support the use of MidoNet Community Edition (MCE) with Eucalyptus on a "community best effort support" level.

Object Storage Compatibility

Storage Array Type/Series Version Notes
Ceph RGW Open source enterprise. CentOS machine with disk, compute, and network resources. >= 10.2.6

We qualify Ceph using the latest public Long Term Support (LTS) release from Ceph installed on dedicated CentOS 7.3 hosts.

Ceph RGW is a Controlled Availability feature. For information about Controlled Availability features in Eucalyptus, see Special Status Release Features.

RiakCS Open source enterprise

RiakCS 2.1.1

Stanchion 2.1.1

Riak 2.1.3

The OS for the RiakCS host machine must be CentOS/RHEL 7.2.
Walrus N/A 4.4.3  

Elastic Block Storage Compatibility

Storage Array Type/Series Version Notes
NetApp SAN

FAS 2000 series

FAS 3000 series

FAS 6000 series

8.1.2 Clustered Data ONTAP or 7-mode FlexClone and iSCSI licenses required.

Storage SANs are deprecated as of Eucalyptus 4.4; to be removed in a future release.

Dell EqualLogic SAN

PS 4000 series

PS 6000 series

Compatible CLI versions Storage SANs are deprecated as of Eucalyptus 4.4; to be removed in a future release.
HP 3PAR SAN

7000 StoreServ Storage systems

3PAR Release Version 3.2.1

3PAR Web Services API 1.4.2

Virtual copy and thin provisioning features required.

Virtual domains feature optional.

Storage SANs are deprecated as of Eucalyptus 4.4; to be removed in a future release.

Ceph RBD Open source enterprise. CentOS machine with disk, compute, and network resources. >= 10.2.6

We qualify Ceph using the latest public Long Term Support (LTS) release from Ceph installed on dedicated CentOS 7.3 hosts.

Direct attached storage Any DAS-JBOD N/A Linux SCSI target framework is required.
Local disks Local overlay filesystem N/A Linux SCSI target framework is required.
Remote disk N/A N/A 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).

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 3.4 with Eucalyptus version 4.4.

Eucalyptus Management Console

Management Console 4.4 operates with the above compatibilities.

Supported browsers

As of this writing, the Eucalyptus Management Console has been tested to support the latest stable releases of:

Other browsers that are not listed here may work; the list above only represents browsers that have been tested and confirmed to work with the Eucalyptus Management Console.

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