[DRAFT] Swarm 15.0 - ESXi 7.0 Bundle

Name of Bundle	Bundle Release Date
Swarm-15.0-ESX-7.0-20220927.zip	September 2022

Purpose

This bundle contains a collection of supported VMware templates for use in proofs of concept and production field deployments. This bundle functions with Swarm Storage 15.0 which is manually installed in SCS and runs on non-VM machines as a separate configuration step. Each VM image in this bundle contains all necessary DataCore Swarm software and dependencies. The software packages are pre-installed and unconfigured. For customers with VMware ESXi 6.7, installation of the entire group of images is expedited. It is advised to use Swarm Cluster Installer, if possible. This style of bundling will be deprecated in the future. For additional information, see [DRAFT] Swarm 15 VMware Bundle Package.

Notes

This is an installation-only bundle, so don’t use this bundle for upgrades.
Swarm 15.0 - ESXi-7.0 - can be deployed on ESXi 6.7 and above. See https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/83223 for end of life (EOL) statement regarding VMware ESX 6.x.

A field engineer needs to modify /usr/lib/system.d/system/elasticsearch_exporter.service if the ES node IP is different.

The flag you want to modify is --es.uri http://YOUR_ES_IP:9200
 systemctl daemon-reload
 systemctl enable elasticsearch_exporter
 systemctl start elasticsearch_exporter

What’s new in the bundle?

Swarm Storage 15.0 [DRAFT] Swarm Storage 15.0 Release
Gateway 7.10.1 [DRAFT] Content Gateway 7.10.1 Release
Swarm Cluster Services 1.4 [DRAFT] Swarm Cluster Services 1.4 Release Notes
All VMs upgraded to the latest 7.9 distribution for ca-certificates and java
SwarmTelemetry: Upgraded DataCore grafana dashboards to v15
SwarmTelemetry: BugFix: OEM-69 missing 507 metrics added.
SwarmTelemetry: OEM-68 added SwarmSearch dashboard and exporter
SwarmTelemetry: added elasticsearch_exporter v15.0
SwarmSearch: Upgraded to caringo-elasticsearch-search v7.0.5
SwarmSearch: Fixed wrong syslog facility to SCS
SwarmContentGateway: OEM-67 fixed the wrong syslog facility to SCS

Bundle Contents

datacore-swarm-15.0.0-ESX.ovf – VMware vAPP OVF for vCenter 6.7 and above
datacore-swarm-15.0.0-ESX-file*.nvram – VMware ESXi 6.7 and higher nvram files only needed for vAPP ovf import
SwarmSearch1.ovf – Elasticsearch 7.5.2 VM image
SwarmNFS.ovf – Swarm FS 3.2 VM image
SwarmContentGateway.ovf – Gateway 7.10.1 VM image ( UIS + UIC )
SwarmClusterServices.ovf – Swarm Cluster Services 1.4.0 VM Image
SwarmTelemetry.ovf – Swarm Telemetry 15.0.0 VM Image
centos-7-licenses.tar.gz – License files for CentOS 7 components used in the bundle
datacore-swarm-15.0.0-ESX-disk*.vmdk – VM disk images associated with the various VM images