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
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 |
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Small | Deploy a virtual storage appliance to your compute cluster. The compute cluster is where your tenant workloads are running. |
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Medium | Deploy a virtual storage appliance to a dedicated ESXi host with large local disks. |
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Large | Configure storage platform services on a supported physical appliance. |
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