This bundle contains a collection of supported VMware templates for proof-of-concept and production field deployments. Each VM contains all the necessary DataCore Swarm software as well as dependencies. The software packages are pre-installed and unconfigured.

This package contains:

• SwarmTelemetry OVF file

• SwarmClusterServices OVF file

• SwarmContentGateway OVF file

• SwarmSearch OVF file

What’s New:

• Swarm Storage 16.0.0 https://perifery.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/public/pages/3386245363

• Swarm Cluster Services (SCS) 1.6 https://perifery.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/public/pages/3301408775

• Swarm Content Gateway 8.0.0 https://perifery.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/public/pages/3386245419

• Elasticsearch 7.17.14

• All VMs upgraded to the latest CentOS 7.9 distribution packages 

• OEM-95: VM hardware set to 19 on all VMs (needed for vmotion) 

• OEM-96: DirectPath I/O is now disabled for all vmxnet3 adapters (needed for vmotion) 

• OEM-97: IPv6 disabled on all templates 

• SwarmTelemetry: nic adapter changed to vmxnet3 to keep consistency 

• SwarmTelemetry: Switched SCSI controller to VMware ParaVirtual 

• SwarmTelemetry: Branding of dashboards modified for v16 

• SwarmTelemetry: OEM-89 fix wrong default ES ip 

• SwarmTelemetry: OEM-99 add grafana image rendered plugin 

• SwarmContentGateway: Switched SCSI controller to VMware ParaVirtual 

• SwarmContentGateway: OEM-94 set docker storage device explicitely 

• SwarmContentGateway: OEM-91 disabled haproxy service 

• SwarmContentGateway: OEM-90 removed 3DES cyphers from haproxy.cfg 

• SwarmContentGateway: OEM-98 disable docker service on gateway 

• SwarmContentGateway: OEM-83 indexSocketTimeout too high 

• SwarmSearch: OEM-93 remove syslog config elasticsearch 

The bundle package can be found at DataCore Downloads.

Prerequisites

• A dedicated vSwitch for the Swarm Storage Network before importing VMs with the dual virtual network card.

• VMs created on VMware ESX 7.0 must be loaded into 6.7 U3 and 7.x (8.x is not supported, but has been tested in our labs)

• If using vCenter, use the VMware vAPP OVF datacore-swarm-16.0.0-ESX.ovf to load the entire set of VMs in one command. Must include the nvram files as well.

• If not using vCenter, use an individual OVF for each template. This requires specifying the associated disk for each VM.

Disk-to-VM Mapping

The following is a sample mapping example of OVF with the associated disks:

VM Template Overview

The following is a sample example of the VM template:

Software Versions

The following software versions are required for the Swarm 15.1 VMware bundle:

References