You install VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension on a Linux operating system.

VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension supports a list of Linux distributions and versions:
  • CentOS Stream 8 or later
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or later
  • Oracle Linux 8 or later
  • Photon OS 4 or later
  • Ubuntu 20 or later
  • Debian 10 or later
To run VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension on a virtual machine, install Java JRE 11 or later.

Deployment Types and Hardware Requirements

Depending on your scale and deployment goals, you can choose between various deployment types. The following table describes the deployment types and their hardware requirements.

Deployment Type What to do? VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension Hardware Requirements
Small Deploy a virtual storage appliance to your compute cluster. The compute cluster is where your tenant workloads are running.

Deploy VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension to your management cluster. The management cluster is where your VMware Cloud Director cells are running.

  • 4 Core CPU
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 120 GB free disk space
Medium Deploy a virtual storage appliance to a dedicated ESXi host with large local disks.

Deploy VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension to your management cluster. The management cluster is where your VMware Cloud Director cells are running.
  • 8 Core CPU
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 120 GB Free Disk Space
Large Configure storage platform services on a supported physical appliance.

Deploy VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension to your management cluster. The management cluster is where your VMware Cloud Director cells are running.
  • 12 Core CPU
  • 12 GB RAM
  • 120 GB Free Disk Space