HP Helion CloudSystem 9.

0 Update 1
Support Matrix

About this guide

This information is intended for Infrastructure Administrators using HP Helion CloudSystem Software 9.0 Update 1, who are
assigned to configure and provision compute resources for deployment and use in virtual data centers.
This guide outlines the recommended and minimum hardware and software requirements and the solution integration tools that
must be in place before installing CloudSystem.

HP Part Number: 5900-4272b

Published: March 2016
Edition: 3

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Publication
date

CloudSystem
version

December
2015

9.0 Update 1 Initial edition

January 2016

9.0 Update 1 Added and changed support in VMware ESXi management hypervisor and compute
node software requirements (page 5)

Edition

Edition notes

Added VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 U1a with ESXi 6.0 U1a
Added VMware vCenter Server for Windows 6.0 U1a with ESXi 6.0 U1a
Changed VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 U3 from ESXi 5.5 U3 to ESXi 5.5
U3b
Changed VMware vCenter Server for Windows 5.5 U3 from ESXi 5.5 U3 to ESXi
5.5 U3b
3

March 2016

9.0 Update 1 Corrected supported versions in VMware ESXi management hypervisor and compute
node software requirements (page 5)

Changed VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 U3 to 5.5 U3b

Changed VMware vCenter Server for Windows 5.5 U3 to 5.5 U3b

Clarified Management hypervisor hardware requirements (page 10) to show that

Table 10 contains the minimum hardware requirements for each host (physical server)
in the physical management cluster
Added note to Object (Swift) storage requirements (page 16): SAN disks and multipath
disks are not supported

Contents
1 Software requirements.................................................................................4
CloudSystem management hypervisor and compute node software requirements...............................4
Software embedded in CloudSystem and optional software.......................................................4
Management hypervisor supported configurations....................................................................5
VMware ESXi management hypervisor and compute node software requirements.........................5
RHEL KVM management hypervisor software requirements........................................................7
RHEL KVM compute node software requirements......................................................................7
Hyper-V compute node software requirements..........................................................................8
CloudSystem and OpenStack CLI requirements.............................................................................8
HP CSA content support............................................................................................................8
Browser requirements................................................................................................................9
Language support in CloudSystem user interfaces.........................................................................9

2 Hardware requirements.............................................................................10
Management hypervisor hardware requirements.........................................................................10
Virtual appliance resource requirements................................................................................10
Storage requirements for the management hypervisor.............................................................11
Supported servers for management hypervisors .....................................................................12
Compute node hardware requirements......................................................................................12
Supported HP servers for compute nodes..............................................................................13
Supported servers from third party vendors for compute nodes.................................................14
HP ConvergedSystems support.................................................................................................14
Network equipment................................................................................................................14
Storage requirements..............................................................................................................14

3 CloudSystem scale limitations.....................................................................17

4 Support and other resources......................................................................19
Information to collect before contacting HP.................................................................................19
How to contact HP..................................................................................................................19
Registering for software technical support and update service.......................................................19
HP authorized resellers............................................................................................................19
Documentation feedback.........................................................................................................20
Related information.................................................................................................................20
HP CloudSystem documents.................................................................................................20
HP Helion OpenStack documents.........................................................................................21
HP Insight Management documents......................................................................................21
Third-party documents........................................................................................................21
HP 3PAR StoreServ documents.............................................................................................22
HP VSA StoreVirtual documents............................................................................................22
HP ProLiant servers documents.............................................................................................23

Index.........................................................................................................24

Contents

1 Software requirements
CloudSystem supports heterogeneous hypervisors in this release.

ESXi or KVM are supported management hypervisor environments

ESXi, KVM and Hyper-V are supported simultaneously as compute nodes

For ESXi compute nodes, you must use the same ESXi version within a cluster.

If you plan to use multiple compute node types, make sure your configuration supports the options
and features you require.

CloudSystem management hypervisor and compute node software

requirements
Software embedded in CloudSystem and optional software
Table 1 Embedded and optional software
Software

Version

Notes

HP Helion OpenStack

1.1.1

Based on OpenStack Cloud Software,

Juno release.
This version is included in HP Helion
CloudSystem Foundation and is not a
separate installation.

HP Cloud Service Automation (HP CSA)

4.50.0001

This version is included in HP Helion

CloudSystem Enterprise and is not a
separate installation.

HP Operations Orchestration Studio

10.21.0001

The executable file used to install this

software is included in the HP Helion
CloudSystem Tools 9.0 - Sept 2015
release zip, which is part of the HP Helion
CloudSystem 9.0 release.

HP Operations Orchestration

10.21.0001

This version is included in HP Helion

CloudSystem Enterprise and is not a
separate installation.

HP Virtual Cloud Networking Open vSwitch

vApp (OVSvApp)

The OVSvApp image is included in the

HP Helion CloudSystem Tools 9.0 - Sept
2015 release zip, which is part of the HP
Helion CloudSystem 9.0 release.

(Includes Open vSwitch 2.3.1)

Upload the OVSvApp image to your

VMware datacenter so that the OVSvApp
appliance is automatically installed on
each ESXi compute hypervisor during
activation.
(Optional) HP Helion Platform Services

Helion Development Platform Helion Development Platform 1.2 is

1.2 or 1.3, including:
available from HP Software Depot.

NOTE: Platform Services (DBaaS,

Application Lifecycle
DNSaaS, and ALS) are supported only in
Service (ALS)
homogeneous configurations of
CloudSystem. Management hypervisors and Database as a Service
compute nodes must be all ESXi or all KVM.
(DBaaS)
Hyper-V compute nodes are not supported. Domain Name System as a
Service (DNSaaS) 1.1.1

Software requirements

After installing 1.2, you can update to

1.3.
For information about upgrading to Helion
Development Platform 1.3, see the
Platform Services, including Helion
Development Platform and DNS as a
Service chapter in the HP Helion
CloudSystem 9.0 Update 1 Administrator
Guide at Enterprise Information Library.

Management hypervisor supported configurations

Table 2 Management hypervisor supported configurations
Management hypervisor Compute node type

VLAN support

VxLAN support

ESXi

ESXi

Yes

Yes

Use the same ESXi version for

all hosts in the cluster.

Use Central Virtual Routing

Use Central Virtual Routing

KVM

Yes

Yes (RHEL 7.0 only)

Use Central Virtual Routing

Use either Central Virtual Routing or

Distributed Virtual Routing
Not supported in RHEL 7.1 because of
a known issue in RHEL

Hyper-V

Yes

No

Use Central Virtual Routing

KVM

ESXi

KVM

Yes

Yes

Use Central Virtual Routing

Use Central Virtual Routing

Yes

Yes (RHEL 7.0 only)

Use Central Virtual Routing

Use either Central Virtual Routing or

Distributed Virtual Routing
Not supported in RHEL 7.1 because of
a known issue in RHEL

Hyper-V

Yes

No

Use Central Virtual Routing

VMware ESXi management hypervisor and compute node software requirements

The following table lists supported VMware vCenter and ESXi host in CloudSystem management
hypervisors and compute nodes.
Table 3 VMware ESXi management hypervisor and compute node software requirements
Software version

Notes

VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 U1

Available from http://software.hp.com.

Select the virtualization software link.

(build 3018523 / installer build 3040890)

For customized images, see Customize

VMware ESXi Images for HP ProLiant
Servers

ESXi 6.0 U1a

ESXi 6.0
VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6
(build 2559267 / installer build 2562643)
ESXi 6.0

To verify VMware guest operating

systems, see the VMware Compatibility
Guide and type Guest OS in What
are you looking for

VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 U3b

CloudSystem management hypervisor and compute node software requirements

Table 3 VMware ESXi management hypervisor and compute node software requirements (continued)
Software version

Notes

(build 3255668 / installer build 3254792)

For the VMware vSphere and vCloud

suite build numbers table, see the
VMware Knowledge Base

ESXi 5.5 U3b

ESXi 5.5 U2e
ESXi 5.5 U2
ESXi 5.1 U3
ESXi 5.1 U2
VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 U2e
(build 2646489 / installer build 2646481)
ESXi 5.5 U2e
ESXi 5.5 U2
ESXi 5.1 U3
ESXi 5.1 U2
VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 U2
(build 2063318 / installer build 2105955)
ESXi 5.5 U2
ESXi 5.1 U3
ESXi 5.1 U2
VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 U3
(build 2306353 / installer build 2308385)
ESXi 5.1 U3
ESXi 5.1 U2
VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 U2
(build 1474364 / installer build 1474365)
ESXi 5.1 U2
VMware vCenter Server 6.0 U1 for Windows
(build 3018524 / installer build 3040890)
ESXi 6.0 U1a
ESXi 6.0
VMware vCenter Server 6.0 for Windows
(build 2559268 / installer build 2562643)
ESXi 6.0
VMware vCenter Server 5.5 U3b for Windows
(build 3252642 / installer build 3254792)
ESXi 5.5 U3b
ESXi 5.5 U2e
ESXi 5.5 U2
ESXi 5.1 U3
ESXi 5.1 U2
VMware vCenter Server 5.5 U2e for Windows
(build 2646482 / installer build 2646481)
ESXi 5.5 U2e
ESXi 5.5 U2
ESXi 5.1 U3
ESXi 5.1 U2
6

Software requirements

Table 3 VMware ESXi management hypervisor and compute node software requirements (continued)
Software version

Notes

VMware vCenter Server 5.5 U2 for Windows

(build 2001466 / installer build 2105955)
ESXi 5.5 U2
ESXi 5.5 U1
ESXi 5.5
ESXi 5.1 U2
VMware vCenter Server 5.1 U3 for Windows
(build 2306353 / installer build 2308386)
ESXi 5.1 U3
ESXi 5.1 U2
VMware vCenter Server 5.1 U2 for Windows
(build 1473063 / installer build 1474365)
ESXi 5.1 U2

RHEL KVM management hypervisor software requirements

Table 4 RHEL KVM management hypervisor software requirements
Software version

Notes

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1

Required: Open vSwitch 2.3.1 must be manually installed Open vSwitch 2.3.1
download.
Required: Emulex be2net 10.7.140.4-1.rhel7u1 driver for HP Emulex server
adapters. Download be2net from HP Support Center (HP ProLiant BL460c Gen
8 Server). Select your operating system, then expand Driver Network.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0

Required: Open vSwitch 2.3.1 must be manually installed Open vSwitch 2.3.1
download.
Required: Emulex be2net 10.2.340.7-1 driver for HP Emulex server adapters.
Download be2net from the HP Support Center (HP ProLiant BL460c Gen 8
Server). Select your operating system, then expand Driver Network.
To verify Red Hat supported guest operating systems, see the RedHat Customer
Portal.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5

Required: Open vSwitch 1.11.0 must be manually installed Open vSwitch 1.11.0
download.
Optional: Emulex be2net driver 4.4.245.0 (or higher) driver for HP Emulex
server adapters. See Citrix support.
Distributed Virtual Routing is not supported when using RHEL 6.5.

RHEL KVM compute node software requirements

To verify Red Hat supported guest operating systems, see the RedHat Customer Portal.
Table 5 RHEL KVM compute node software requirements
Software version

Notes

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1

Required: Emulex be2net 10.7.140.4-1.rhel7u1 driver for HP Emulex server

adapters. Download be2net from HP Support Center (HP ProLiant BL460c Gen
8 Server). Select your operating system, then expand Driver Network..

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0

Required: Emulex be2net 10.2.340.7-1 driver for HP Emulex server adapters.

Download be2net from HP Support Center (HP ProLiant BL460c Gen 8 Server).
Select your operating system, then expand Driver Network..

CloudSystem management hypervisor and compute node software requirements

Table 5 RHEL KVM compute node software requirements (continued)

Software version

Notes
Open vSwitch will be automatically installed during activation.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5

Optional: Emulex be2net driver 4.4.245.0 (or higher) driver for HP Emulex
server adapters. See Citrix support.
Open vSwitch will be automatically installed during activation.
Distributed Virtual Routing (DVR) is not supported when using RHEL 6.6 or 6.5.

Hyper-V compute node software requirements

Table 6 Hyper-V compute node software requirements
Software version

Notes

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with

Hyper-V (Datacenter Edition)

Hyper-V is not supported as a management hypervisor.

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with

Hyper-V (Standard Edition)

Hyper-V compute nodes are not supported in Platform Services (Helion

Development Platform and DNSaaS).
To verify Hyper-V supported guest operating systems, see Supported guest
operating systems.

CloudSystem and OpenStack CLI requirements

The CloudSystem-Tools-9.0.0.0.zip file contains a csstart installation script and
OpenStack CLI packages.
Table 7 Supported versions of operating systems for staging machines used to run csstart and
CLI packages
CLI

Execute on

Version

csstart

Windows

Windows Version 8, 2008 R2 (32-bit

and 64-bit)

Linux

Red Hat RHEL 6.5, 7.0, 7.1

Ubuntu 12.04
OpenStack CLI packages

Windows
Linux

Windows Version 8, 2008 R2 (32-bit

and 64-bit)
Red Hat RHEL 6.5, 7.0, 7.1
Ubuntu 12.04

CloudSystem CLI packages

CloudSystem management appliance CloudSystem CLIs are included in HP

Helion CloudSystem Foundation and
NOTE: The support dump command are not a separate installation.
can be run on any appliance.
See the HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0
Update 1 Command Line Interface
Guide at Enterprise Information Library.

HP CSA content support

Check the HP Live Network for updated HP CSA content packs and capsules. Content compatible
with HP CSA 4.5 is supported with CloudSystem 9.0 Update 1. For example, the HP CSA content
for Matrix OE supports Matrix OE 7.2 and higher.
For information about HP CSA content, see the HP Cloud Service Automation Content Pack User
Guide. This document is available from the Enterprise Information Library.

Software requirements

Browser requirements
The following browsers are supported for the CloudSystem installation.
Table 8 Supported browsers
Browser

Version

Microsoft Internet Explorer

10, 11

Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR)

35

Mozilla Firefox Personal Edition

36

Google Chrome

40 or higher

Language support in CloudSystem user interfaces

IMPORTANT: Helion CloudSystem 9.0 Update 1 is a patch kit that is applied to an existing
installation of Helion CloudSystem 9.0.
You must install CloudSystem 9.0 virtual appliances in an English environment, including VMware
vCenter and the server on which it is installed.
Table 9 Supported languages
User interface

9.0 Update 1

9.0

Management Appliance
Installer

N/A

English

First-Time Installer

N/A

English

When installing HP Helion

CloudSystem 9.0, set your default
browser language to English to avoid
display errors in the Management
Appliance Installer.

Operations Console

English, Japanese,
Simplified Chinese

English

For limitations on Japanese and

Simplified Chinese language support,
see the HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0
Update 1 Release Notes at Enterprise
Information Library.

OpenStack user portal

English, Dutch
(Netherlands), French,
Japanese, Korean,
Polish, Portuguese
(Brazil), Russian,
Spanish, Simplified
Chinese, Traditional
Chinese

English, Dutch
(Netherlands), French,
Japanese, Korean,
Polish, Portuguese
(Brazil), Russian,
Spanish, Simplified
Chinese, Traditional
Chinese

Cloud Service Automation

Management Console (HP
CSA)

English, Japanese,
Simplified Chinese

English, Japanese,
Simplified Chinese

Marketplace Portal

English, Japanese,
Simplified Chinese,
Korean, German,
Spanish, Danish, Dutch,
Italian, Russian

English, Japanese,
Simplified Chinese,
Korean, German,
Spanish, Danish,
Dutch, Italian, Russian

HP Operations Orchestration English, Japanese,

Central
Simplified Chinese

English, Japanese,
Simplified Chinese

VMware vCenter Server

English

English

Notes

Replace non-English characters with

supported English characters in all
vCenter object names.

Browser requirements

2 Hardware requirements
Hardware requirements for management hypervisors, compute nodes, virtual appliances, SAN,
storage and network equipment are provided in this chapter.

Management hypervisor hardware requirements

This section lists the minimum hardware requirements for an ESXi or KVM management hypervisor
cluster.
IMPORTANT:

CloudSystem supports two management cluster configurations.

A management cluster with three hosts (physical servers) is strongly recommended. It offers
high availability and performance benefits for robust production use.

A management cluster with a single host is supported for small development, test, or production
environments where physical high availability is not a requirement.
HA can be achieved by adding hosts to result in a three host cluster. Single host management
clusters can support a maximum of 32 compute nodes and 1280 VM instances.

You can install CloudSystem on a single physical host and later decide to add hosts to the
management cluster. See the Manage the management hypervisor cluster chapter of the HP
Helion CloudSystem 9.0 Update 1 Administrator Guide at Enterprise Information Library.

Table 10 contains the minimum hardware requirements for each host (physical server) in the physical
management cluster. The cluster can contain either three hosts for High Availability (HA) or one
host for non-HA.
In an HA solution, each of the three hosts in a three-host cluster must meet the minimum requirements
in Table 10. In a failure scenario where two nodes are down, all CloudSystem VMs fail over to
the remaining host, which must be configured with the resources to handle this load.
Table 10 Minimum management hypervisor cluster hardware requirements
Configuration

Cores per host

RAM per host

Storage

Three host management

cluster (Recommended)

16

192 GB

Shared

Single host management

cluster

16

See the formula below.

192 GB

Shared or local
See the formula below.

Virtual appliance resource requirements

Table 11 Virtual appliance resource requirements (minimum)

10

Virtual appliance

Cores

RAM

Boot Volume

Data Volume

Management
appliance (ma1)

8 vCPUs

16 GB

200 GB (Thin Provisioned)

200 GB

Management
appliance (ma2)

8 vCPUs

Management
appliance (ma3)

8 vCPUs

Hardware requirements

Temporary storage required to

support backup and restore
operations
8 GB

200 GB (Thin Provisioned)

200 GB
Temporary storage required to
support backup and restore
operations

8 GB

200 GB (Thin Provisioned)

200 GB

Table 11 Virtual appliance resource requirements (minimum) (continued)

Virtual appliance

Cores

RAM

Boot Volume

Data Volume
Temporary storage required to
support backup and restore
operations

Cloud controller
(cmc)

16 vCPUs

32 GB

200 GB (Thin Provisioned)

500 GB to 2 TB
Glance image repository size is
specified in the First-Time Installer

Cloud controller (cc1) 16 vCPUs

32 GB

200 GB (Thin Provisioned)

Cloud controller (cc2) 16 vCPUs

32 GB

200 GB (Thin Provisioned)

Enterprise appliance 8 vCPUs

(ea1)

32 GB

2 TB (Thin Provisioned)

Enterprise appliance 8 vCPUs

(ea2)

32 GB

Enterprise appliance 8 vCPUs

(ea3)

32 GB

Monitoring
appliance (mona1)

4 vCPUs

8 GB

200 GB (Thin Provisioned)

Monitoring
appliance (mona2)

4 vCPUs

8 GB

200 GB (Thin Provisioned)

Monitoring
appliance (mona3)

4 vCPUs

8 GB

200 GB (Thin Provisioned)

Update appliance
(ua1)

2 vCPUs

8 GB

200 GB (Thin Provisioned)

SDN controller (sdn)

4 vCPUs

8 GB

200 GB (Thin Provisioned)

114 vCPUs

264 GB

8.2 TB

Required to support the

Operations Orchestration
database
2 TB (Thin Provisioned)
Required to support the
Operations Orchestration
database
2 TB (Thin Provisioned)
Required to support the
Operations Orchestration
database

*Deployed only in VxLAN

configurations.

Total HA
configuration

1.1 TB to 2 TB

Storage requirements for the management hypervisor

You must configure shared storage for a three node management hypervisor.
You can configure shared storage or local storage for a single node management hypervisor.
Configure local storage only if you do not plan to add hosts later.

Formula to determine the shared or local management hypervisor storage requirements

Virtual appliance storage + Glance images = Management hypervisor storage

Virtual appliance storage: 8 TB

Glance images and snapshots: 500 GB to 10.1 TB

Use the guidelines in the following table to estimate the storage requirements for the Glance
disk.
Management hypervisor hardware requirements

11

NOTE: Glance images are stored on a local disk in the management hypervisor. External storage
for Glance images is not supported.
You set the size of the Glance disk in the First-Time Installer, and you can increase the size of the
disk after installation. See Expanding the Glance disk size in the HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0
Update 1 Administrator Guide at Enterprise Information Library.
Table 12 Glance repository sizing guidelines
Glance repository

Linux images (4 GB
each)

Windows images (16

GB each)

Snapshots (20 GB
each)

TOTAL

Small

15

10

15

500 GB

Medium

20

15

40

1.2 TB

Large

25

30

500

10.1 TB

Supported servers for management hypervisors

HP servers that support the ESXi and KVM operating systems listed in Software requirements
(page 4) are supported as management hypervisors in CloudSystem.
Find supported servers
Find the supported servers on which you can install the ESXi or KVM operating system for your
management hypervisor.
1. Navigate to Server operating systems & virtualization.
2. Select the operating system (Red Hat or VMware) you plan to use as your management
hypervisor.
3. Select the Software version of the operating system.
4. Scroll down to the table and verify that the server you plan to use is a supported server.
(Optional) Verify firmware compatibility
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Navigate to the HP Support Center at http://www.hp.com/go/hpsc.

Enter the supported server name in the product search box and click Go.
Click Get drivers, software & firmware.
Find the server link in the list and click the link.
Click the name of the operating system you plan to use.
Click firmware.
Verify the versions that support the server you plan to use.
If your firmware version is out of date, download the latest version.

Compute node hardware requirements

Compute node sizes vary according to your resource needs. Answer the following questions to
help you determine the number of CPU cores and amount of memory and storage to allocate to
each compute node.

12

What flavor settings will the provisioned instances use?

What oversubscription rate is supported for each compute resource? See the Compute node
creation chapter in the HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0 Update 1 Administrator Guide in the
Enterprise Information Library.

How many instances will each compute node host?

Hardware requirements

Storage requirements for compute hypervisors

Refer to the hypervisor vendor (VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux KVM)
documentation for minimum storage requirements to run the system in production.
If you are using the hypervisor as a compute node, additional storage is required, which depends
on:

Flavor of image

Number of guest instances (running or stopped state)

Formula to determine compute hypervisor storage requirements

Maximum ephemeral disk size, calculated from the largest image flavor
x Number of active or stopped instances at any given time

= Additional required storage on compute hypervisor

Table 13 Support appliance resource requirements (minimum)
Virtual appliance

Cores

RAM

Storage

OVSvApp VM

4 vCPUs

4 GB

40 GB

*One VM is required to
support each ESXi compute
host.

Supported HP servers for compute nodes

HP servers that support the ESXi, KVM, and Hyper-V operating systems listed in Software
requirements (page 4) are supported as compute nodes in CloudSystem.
Find supported servers
Find the supported servers on which you can install the ESXi, KVM, or Hyper-V operating system.
1. Navigate to Server operating systems & virtualization.
2. Select the operating system (VMware, Red Hat, or Microsoft Windows) you plan to install on
your compute node.
3. Select the Software version of the operating system.
4. Scroll down to the table and verify that the server you plan to use is a supported server.
(Optional) Verify firmware compatibility
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Navigate to the HP Support Center at http://www.hp.com/go/hpsc.

Enter the supported server name in the product search box and click Go.
Click Get drivers, software & firmware.
Find the server link in the list and click the link.
Click the name of the operating system you plan to use.
Click firmware.
Verify the versions that support the server you plan to use.
If your firmware version is out of date, download the latest version.

Compute node hardware requirements

13

Supported servers from third party vendors for compute nodes

In general, any server listed in the VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
hypervisor compatibility guides is supported as a compute node in CloudSystem, with the following
limitation.

VM guests cannot be moved from one third-party vendors server to another.

See the following web sites for compatibility information.

VMware compatibility: Use the search function at VMware Compatibility Guide

Microsoft Hyper-V compatibility: Search for Hyper-V from the Windows Server Catalog

Red Hat Enterprise Linux compatibility: Use the search function at Red Hat Enterprise Linux
ecosystem

HP ConvergedSystems support
CloudSystem supports the following converged systems:

HP ConvergedSystem 700x for Cloud

HP ConvergedSystems 700 for VMware

Network equipment

(Optional) VxLAN-based Provider network in a CVR deployment requires the HP FlexFabrix

5930 physical switch.
For more information, see the HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0 Update 1 Network Planning Guide
in the Enterprise Information Library.

Storage requirements
NOTE: The REST API interface must be enabled on the HP 3PAR storage system if you want to
provision block storage from an HP 3PAR storage system.
Table 14 Instance (ephemeral) storage requirements
Compute node
type
ESXi

Storage type

Supported version

Virtual Machine File System (VMFS CloudSystem supports all ESXi datastore storage supported by
block storage)
VMware.
See VMware support documentation in Third-party documents
(page 21).

KVM

Local Linux File System

CloudSystem supports all KVM backing storage configurations

supported by Red Hat.
See RHEL support documentation in Third-party documents
(page 21).

Hyper-V

Local Windows System or CFS

CloudSystem supports all Hyper-V backing storage

configurations supported by Microsoft.
See Microsoft support documentation in Third-party documents
(page 21).

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Hardware requirements

Table 15 Block (Cinder) storage requirements

Compute node
type
ESXi

Storage type

Virtual Machine File System (VMFS CloudSystem supports all ESXi datastore storage supported by
block storage)*
VMware.
* Can be iSCSI or FC based.

KVM

Supported versions

See Third-party documents (page 21)

HP 3PAR Fibre Channel (FC) Driver HP 3PAR Fibre Channel and iSCSI Drivers
HP 3PAR iSCSI Driver
HP StoreVirtual VSA (iSCSI
protocol)

Inform OS 3.2.2

3PAR Service Processor 4.4.0

3PAR Inform Management Console 4.70

StoreServ Management Console 2.1

Smart Start 1.5

Inform OS 3.2.1 (MU3)

3PAR Service Processor 4.3 GA-24 (MU1)

3PAR Inform Management Console 4.6.2

CLI-SNMP (for clients) 3.2.1 (MU3)

StoreServ Management Console 2.0.1

Smart Start 1.4.2

RC Quorum Witness 2.0.001

HP StoreVirtual VSA 4000 series

Driver 11.5.01.0079.0 (Helion Embedded)
SW solution on the management hypervisor: LHN P4000
HW solution: 4000 hard drive array
Hyper-V

HP 3PAR iSCSI Driver

HP 3PAR iSCSI Driver

HP StoreVirtual VSA (iSCSI

protocol)

Inform OS 3.2.2

3PAR Service Processor 4.4.0

3PAR Inform Management Console 4.70

StoreServ Management Console 2.1

Smart Start 1.5

Inform OS 3.2.1 (MU3)

3PAR Service Processor 4.3 GA-24 (MU1)

3PAR Inform Management Console 4.6.2

CLI-SNMP (for clients) 3.2.1 (MU3)

StoreServ Management Console 2.0.1

Smart Start 1.4.2

RC Quorum Witness 2.0.001

Storage requirements

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Table 15 Block (Cinder) storage requirements (continued)

Compute node
type

Storage type

Supported versions
HP StoreVirtual VSA
SW solution on the management hypervisor is LHN P4000
HW solution is the 4000 hard drive array

Table 16 Object (Swift) storage requirements

Storage types

Object storage
component

OpenStack Swift
See CloudSystem scale
limitations (page 17).

Two Swift Proxy

Nodes (one per
zone) minimum

Tested configuration
HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 server
2 Processors, 10-12 cores each
2 Large Form Factor (LFF) SAS/SATA for the operating
system

NOTE: OpenStack Swift was

performance tested with HP
ProLiant DL380 Gen9 servers as
the Proxy Nodes and HP
ProLiant SL4540 Gen8 servers
as the Object Storage Nodes.

2 LFF SSD for account/container rings

Minimum RAM = 96 GB

Other HP servers including HP

Apollo 4530 and non-HP
servers are also supported.
See HP Helion Ready Solution
Catalog for tested and certified
Two Swift Object
HP and non-HP servers.
Storage Nodes (one
When choosing servers for
per zone) minimum
Swift, keep the following
compute requirements in mind:
Proxy Nodes need more CPU
and RAM and very few
storage disks.

96 GB low concurrent use

128 GB moderate concurrent use

192 GB high concurrent use

Servers

SL4550 Gen8 1x60

SL4540 Gen8 2x25

See the SL4540 QuickSpecs

OS disks and Swift data disks

Object Storage Nodes are

more sensitive to RAM (RAM
requirements increase when
storage increases), and are
expected to host a large
number of disks because
data is primarily stored on
these nodes.

NOTE:

SAN disks and multipath disks are not supported

2 Single Form Factor (SFF) drives for the operating

system (11.6 TB each)

Minimum 2 Large Form Factor (LFF) drives for the object

ring (6 TB each)

Minimum RAM = 1 GB per TB of storage

Example: 192 GB RAM for 60 3 TB disks, 128 GB RAM
for 40 3 TB disks
Object Proxy
Network

10 Gigabits per second data transfer speed (minimum)

(Configured during
First-Time Installation)
Object Storage
Network
(Configured during
object storage
configuration)

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Hardware requirements

10 Gigabits per second data transfer speed (minimum)

3 CloudSystem scale limitations

Scaling limitations for cloud resources, networking, and storage are provided in the following
tables.
Table 17 CloudSystem Foundation scaling limits
Configured resource

Maximum number supported

Managed virtual machine instances

10,000 (ESXi only, KVM only, or mixed ESXi and

KVM)
10,000 (ESXi and/or KVM with Hyper-V; of the
10,000, Hyper-V cannot exceed 1000)
1000 (Hyper-V only)

Managed compute nodes

200 (ESXi only, KVM only, or mixed ESXi and KVM)

200 (ESXi and/or KVM with Hyper-V; of the 200,
Hyper-V cannot exceed 40)
40 (Hyper-V only)

OpenStack user portal users

256 (Total number of users logged in at one time)

500 (Total number of users)

OpenStack user portal users simultaneously creating virtual

machine instances

25

Projects

512

Virtual machine instances per project

500

Images

512

Flavors

256

External networks

Private IP addresses

10,000

Floating IP addresses

10,000

Tenant VLAN networks

600

Tenant VxLAN networks

750

Security Group rules

1,000

Virtual machine instances in a single security group

100

Block storage volumes (created)

10,000

Block storage volumes (attached)

5,000 VMFS volumes attached to ESXi compute

hosts

(Total number of concurrent connections)

5,000 3PAR volumes attached to KVM compute

hosts
1,000 3PAR volumes attached to Hyper-V
compute hosts
5,000 VSA volumes attached to KVM and
Hyper-V compute hosts
1,000 VSA volumes attached to Hyper-V compute
hosts
Clusters per vCenter Server

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Table 18 CloudSystem Enterprise scaling limits

Configured resource

Maximum number supported

Number of simultaneous HP CSA Marketplace Portal users

10

Number of concurrent subscription (service) requests

10

Total number of subscriptions (services)

5000

Number of HP Helion CloudSystem clouds with 1 CloudSystem

Enterprise

Table 19 Object storage (Swift) scaling limits

Swift as a Service
Parameter

Limitation

Number of objects

512,000,000

Amount of storage

512 TB

This is based on the assumption that the

average image size is 4 GB.

Concurrency

512

This is the number of parallel users accessing

Swift while deploying VMs.

NOTE:

Additional information

All Swift scaling limits are based on a configuration that includes a Load Balancer.

Table 20 HP Helion Development Platform scaling limitations

Configured resource

Maximum number supported

Application Lifecycle Service (ALS) Maximum number of virtual machine

instances

100

Database as a Service (DBaaS) Maximum number of virtual machine

instances within a single project

500

Includes 15 virtual machine instances for control plane components and

485 available virtual machine instances for client databases

Table 21 L2 gateway scaling limitations

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Configured resource

Maximum number supported

L2 gateway connections

300

CloudSystem scale limitations

4 Support and other resources

Information to collect before contacting HP
Be sure to have the following information available before you contact HP:

Software product name

Hardware product model number

Operating system type and version

Applicable error message

Third-party hardware or software

Technical support registration number (if applicable)

How to contact HP
Use the following methods to contact HP:

To obtain HP contact information for any country, see the Contact HP worldwide website:
http://www.hp.com/go/assistance

Use the Get help from HP link on the HP Support Center:

http://www.hp.com/go/hpsc

To contact HP by telephone in the United States, use the Contact HP Phone Assist website
to determine the telephone number that precisely fits your needs. For continuous quality
improvement, conversations might be recorded or monitored.
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/contact-hp/phone-assist.html#section1

Registering for software technical support and update service

HP CloudSystem includes one year of 24 x 7 HP Software Technical Support and Update Service.
This service provides access to HP technical resources for assistance in resolving software
implementation or operations problems.
The service also provides access to software updates and reference manuals, either in electronic
form or on physical media as they are made available from HP. Customers who purchase an
electronic license are eligible for electronic updates only.
With this service, HP CloudSystem customers benefit from expedited problem resolution as well as
proactive notification and delivery of software updates. For more information about this service,
see the following website:
http://www.hp.com/services/insight
Registration for this service takes place following online redemption of the license certificate.

HP authorized resellers
For the name of the nearest HP authorized reseller, see the following sources:

In the United States, see the U.S. HP partner and store locator website:
http://www.hp.com/service_locator

In other locations, see the Contact HP worldwide website:

http://www.hp.com/go/assistance

Information to collect before contacting HP

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Documentation feedback
HP is committed to providing documentation that meets your needs.
To help us improve the documentation, send your suggestions and comments to:
[email protected]
In your mail message, include the following information. They are located on the front cover.

Document title

Published date

Edition number

Help us pinpoint your concern by posting the document title in the Subject line of your mail message.

Related information
Use this section to learn about available documentation for HP CloudSystem components and
related products.

HP CloudSystem documents
The latest versions of HP CloudSystem manuals and white papers, including HP CSA and HP
Operations Orchestration, can be downloaded from the Enterprise Information Library at http://
www.hp.com/go/CloudSystem/docs.
Documents

HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0 Update 1 Administrator Guide

HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0 Update 1 Installation Guide

HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0 Update 1 Network Planning Guide

HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0 Update 1 Release Notes

HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0 Update 1 Support Matrix

HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0 Update 1 Troubleshooting Guide

HP Helion CloudSystem Migration Guide: 8.1 Update 2 to 9.0 Update 1

HP Helion CloudSystem Operations Console Help

White papers

HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0: Centralized Logging

HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0: Configuring Multitenancy Using OpenLDAP or Microsoft Active

Directory

HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0: Deploying Multi-tier applications with HP OneView and Helion
OpenStack technology in a multi-tenant environment

HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0: Managing multiple hypervisors with OpenStack technology

HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0: Monasca (Monitoring) Agent

HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0: Networking configuration and troubleshooting

HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0: Performance and Scalability Solution with KVM and ESXi
Hypervisors

HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0: Using an HP Operations Orchestration Remote Action Server

HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0: Using VMware ESXi Clusters as Compute Nodes

HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0: Using Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 as Compute Nodes

Online help for the CloudSystem Operations Console is available by clicking the help control
button in the Console user interface:
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Support and other resources

HP Helion OpenStack documents

The latest version of HP Helion OpenStack information is viewable from HP Helion Documentation
at http://docs.hpcloud.com, including information about the following products:

HP Helion OpenStack

HP Helion OpenStack Community

HP Helion Development Platform

HP Helion Eucalyptus

The full list of HP CSA documentation can be accessed from the HP Cloud Service Automation tab.

HP Insight Management documents

The latest versions of HP Matrix Operating Environment manuals, white papers, and the HP Insight
Management Support Matrix can be downloaded from the HP Enterprise Information Library at
http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs, including the following documents:

HP Matrix Operating Environment Release Notes

HP Insight Management Support Matrix

HP Matrix Operating Environment Infrastructure Orchestration User Guide

Cloud bursting with HP CloudSystem Matrix infrastructure orchestration

Third-party documents
CloudSystem incorporates OpenStack technology (listed below), and interoperates with other
third-party virtualization software.

Related information

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OpenStack Juno

OpenStack Documentation for Juno releases

With few exceptions (such as installation information), OpenStack documents are always set
to display the current release stream on the OpenStack document web site.

Cloud Administrator Guide

Virtual Machine Image Guide

API Quick Start

Admin User Guide

End User Guide

Command reference

Keystone commands

Glance commands

Neutron commands

Nova commands

Cinder commands

VMware

VMware vSphere documents

Microsoft

Microsoft Windows Server documents

Microsoft Hyper-V documents

Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 documents

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 documents

HP 3PAR StoreServ documents

The latest versions of HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage manuals are available from the Storage tab at
the top of the Enterprise Information Library.
HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage manuals can also be downloaded from the HP Support Center, including
the following documents:

HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage Concepts Guide

HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage Troubleshooting Guide

HP VSA StoreVirtual documents

The latest versions of HP VSA StoreVirtual Storage manuals are available from the Storage tab at
the top of the Enterprise Information Library.

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Support and other resources

HP VSA StoreVirtual Storage manuals can also be downloaded from the HP Support Center,
including the following document:

HP StoreVirtual Storage User Guide

HP ProLiant servers documents

The HP Integrated Lights-Out QuickSpecs contain support information and are available from
the QuickSpecs website:
http://www.hp.com/go/qs

HP ProLiant servers:

ProLiant BL BladeSystem servers:

http://www.hp.com/go/blades

ProLiant DL, ML, and SL servers:

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/servers/proliant-servers.html

Related information

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Index
B
browser
requirements, 9

C
compute nodes
hardware requirements, 10
server and firmware compatibility, 10
server requirements, 10
contacting HP
information to collect, 19

D
documentation
providing feedback, 20

H
HP
authorized resellers, 19
contacting, 19
HP 3PAR StoreServ storage system
software requirements, 4
HP CloudSystem
browser requirements, 9
hardware requirements, 10
software requirements, 4
tools requirements, 8
HP ConvergedSystems
supported versions, 10
HP CSA
software requirements, 4
HP OO Studio
software requirements, 4
HP Operations Orchestration
software requirements, 4

L
languages
supported in user interfaces, 9

M
management hypervisors
formula for storage requirements, 10
Glance repository sizing guidelines, 10
hardware requirements, 10
server and firmware compatibility, 10
server requirements, 10

R
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
software requirements, 4
reporting documentation errors, 20

S
software technical support service
24

Index

registering for, 19
storage
block (Cinder) storage, 14
image (Glance) storage, 14
instance (ephemeral), 14
object (Swift) storage, 14
requirements, 14

V
VMware vCenter Server
software requirements, 4