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 Swarm Cluster Services 1.7.1 Release Notes

• Content Gateway 8.0.4Content Gateway 8.0.4 Release

• Content UI 7.10 Content UI 7.10 Release

• Elasticsearch 7.17.14

• Grafana 10.4.1

• Note: SELinux is now disabled on Swarm Cluster Services VM as required since SCS 1.7.1 Swarm Cluster Services 1.7.1 Release Notes

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

• OEM-100 add node_exporter to telemetry server 

• OEM-103 fix rescue images 

• OEM-104 update all needed yum dependencies for support tools 

• OEM-107 remove default gateway on swarm side  

• OEM-108 override swarm-platform rsyslog for scs 

• OEM-110 fix gateway log pollution 

• OEM-112 add screen, vim, unzip, wget, elinks, htop, iftop, iperf3 to all vms

• OEM-113 migrate old grafana panels 

• OEM-114 version lock to grafana 10.4.1 

• OEM-115 add roles to oem-es-maintenance script

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