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. The VM templates have been created with Rocky Linux 8.9 OS.

This package contains:

• SwarmTelemetry OVF file

• SwarmClusterServices OVF file

• SwarmContentGateway OVF file

• SwarmSearch OVF file

What’s New:

• Swarm Storage 16.1 Swarm Storage 16.1 Release

• Swarm Cluster Services (SCS) 1.7.1 [DRAFT] Swarm Cluster Services 1.7.1 Release Notes

• Content Gateway 8.0.2 [DRAFT] Content Gateway 8.0.2 Release

• Content UI 7.10 Content UI 7.10 Release

• Elasticsearch 7.17.14

• SELinux is now disabled on Swarm Cluster Services VM as required by SCS 1.7.1

• All VMs upgraded to the latest Rocky Linux 8.9 distribution packages 

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

• OEM-97: IPv6 disabled on all templates 

• SwarmTelemetry; branding of dashboards modified for v16 

• SwarmTelemetry: OEM-89 fix wrong default ES ip 

• SwarmTelemetry: upgraded to prometheus 2.45.0 

• SwarmTelemetry: upgraded to alertmanager 0.25.0 

• SwarmTelemetry: upgraded to grafana 9.3.2 

• SwarmContentGateway: Upgraded to node_exporter 1.6.0 

• 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 

• SwarmClusterServices: added nf_conntrack kernel load bugfix 

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 7.0U2 or higher (8.x is not supported but has been tested)

• If using vCenter, use the VMware vAPP OVF datacore-swarm-16.1-ESX-RL8.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 16.1 VMware bundle:

References