Eucalyptus Compatibility Matrix

This compatibility matrix details supported platforms in Eucalyptus 4.2 software.

Compute compatibility

OS and Hypervisors Version Architecture
Centos+KVM 6.7 x86_64
RHEL+KVM 6.7 x86_64

Java

Component Version Notes
JVM 7 For the CLOUD_OPTS setting in the /etc/eucalyptus/eucalyptus.conf file:

either do not set --java-home, or --java-home must point to a version 7 JVM.

Guest operating systems

OS Type Version/Edition Architecture
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Deprecated n/a
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.

VPCMIDO

AWS VPC on-premise equivalent; in partnership with Midokura.

Object Storage Compatibility

Storage Array Type/Series Version
Ceph RGW Open source enterprise 0.94.6
Riak CS Open source enterprise 1.5.1

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.
Dell EqualLogic SAN

PS 4000 series

PS 6000 series

Compatible CLI versions  
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.

Ceph RDB Any CentOS/RHEL machine with disk, compute and network resources 0.94.6  
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 3.3.1 with Eucalyptus version 4.2.

Eucalyptus Management Console

Management Console 4.2 operates with the above compatibilities. See Browser Support for a list of supported browsers in this release.

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