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1 | System Requirements |
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7 | For production servers, high quality server equipment is needed. Keep |
| 8 | in mind, if you run 10 Virtual Servers on one machine and you then | |
| 9 | experience a hardware failure, 10 services are lost. {pve} | |
| 10 | supports clustering, this means that multiple {pve} installations | |
| 11 | can be centrally managed thanks to the included cluster functionality. | |
| 12 | ||
| 13 | {pve} can use local storage (DAS), SAN, NAS and also distributed | |
| 80c0adcb | 14 | storage (Ceph RBD). For details see xref:chapter_storage[chapter storage]. |
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| 17 | Minimum Requirements, for Evaluation | |
| 18 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
| 19 | ||
| 20 | * CPU: 64bit (Intel EMT64 or AMD64) | |
| 21 | ||
| 22 | * Intel VT/AMD-V capable CPU/Mainboard for KVM Full Virtualization support | |
| 23 | ||
| 24 | * RAM: 1 GB RAM, plus additional RAM used for guests | |
| 25 | ||
| 26 | * Hard drive | |
| 27 | ||
| 28 | * One NIC | |
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| 30 | ||
| 31 | Recommended System Requirements | |
| 32 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
| 33 | ||
| 58610ec9 | 34 | * Intel EMT64 or AMD64 with Intel VT/AMD-V CPU flag. |
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36 | * Memory, minimum 2 GB for OS and Proxmox VE services. Plus designated memory |
| 37 | for guests. For Ceph or ZFS additional memory is required, approximately 1 GB | |
| 38 | memory for every TB used storage. | |
| 39 | ||
| 40 | * Fast and redundant storage, best results with SSD disks. | |
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42 | * OS storage: Hardware RAID with batteries protected write cache (``BBU'') or |
| 43 | non-RAID with ZFS and SSD cache. | |
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45 | * VM storage: For local storage use a hardware RAID with battery backed |
| 46 | write cache (BBU) or non-RAID for ZFS. Neither ZFS nor Ceph are compatible | |
| 47 | with a hardware RAID controller. Shared and distributed storage is also | |
| 48 | possible. | |
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50 | * Redundant Gbit NICs, additional NICs depending on the preferred storage |
| 51 | technology and cluster setup – 10 Gbit and higher is also supported. | |
| bc1c71d4 | 52 | |
| 58610ec9 | 53 | * For PCI passthrough a CPU with VT-d/AMD-d CPU flag is needed. |
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55 | |
| 56 | Simple Performance Overview | |
| 57 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
| 58 | ||
| 59 | On an installed {pve} system, you can run the included `pveperf` script | |
| 60 | to obtain an overview of the CPU and hard disk performance. | |
| 61 | ||
| 62 | NOTE: this is just a very quick and general benchmark. More detailed tests | |
| 63 | are recommended, especially regarding the I/O performance of your system. | |
| 64 | ||
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65 | Supported web browsers for accessing the web interface |
| 66 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
| 67 | To use the web interface you need a modern browser, this includes: | |
| 68 | ||
| 69 | * Firefox, a release from the current year, or the latest Extended | |
| 70 | Support Release | |
| 71 | * Chrome, a release from the current year | |
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72 | * Microsoft's currently supported versions of Internet Explorer (as |
| 73 | of 2019, this means IE 11 or IE Edge) | |
| 74 | * Safari, a release from the current year | |
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75 | |
| 76 | If {pve} detects you're connecting from a mobile device, you will be | |
| 77 | redirected to a lightweight touch-based UI. |