Hardware for IPLM appliance installation
This page shows the Hardware and Hypervisor requirements for the provided Appliance VM. Perforce provides a pre-configured VM that can be loaded into a customer hypervisor directly. This is generally the quickest installation method because the VM is already loaded with all necessary packages, and it is only necessary to load the VM and perform a few configuration steps. See the Perforce Appliance Installation page for more details.
Hardware, HV support, and resources needed
| Supported Hypervisors | Proxmox, VMware 8.X, VirtualBox |
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| CPU cores per VM |
2-16 X86_64 cores For an evaluation, usually only 2-4 cores and 4 GiB of memory are necessary. For a production deployment, between 8-12 cores and 15 GiB of memory at a minimum are necessary. |
| Memory per VM | 8-64 GB |
| Networking adapter | 10 GigE recommended/minimum 1 GbE |
Recommended data-related resources
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Storage
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Type
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Service
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Target
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Notes
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| 500 GB |
Local SSD |
Service daemons (redis/mongodb/picache) | database files | Local disk or SAN |
| 2 TB | NAS | SAN/NFS mount | IPLM Cacheshared files |
Dependent on the number of IPV's in the system, the amount of data and the effectiveness of deduplication on the filer |
Configuration items
- Provided VM image is a sparse file (unless RAW is required).
- The VM's network and disk adapters should be configured to be the most performant as possible (SR-IOV, virtio, whatever works best on your HV).
- To use the appliance, see IPLM appliance installation.