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 8.10 OS.

This package contains:

SwarmTelemetry OVF file
SwarmClusterServices OVF file
SwarmContentGateway OVF file
SwarmSearch OVF file

What’s New:

Swarm Storage 16.1.4 Swarm Storage 16.1.4 Release
Swarm Cluster Services (SCS) 1.7.2 Swarm Cluster Services 1.7.2 Release Notes
Content Gateway 8.1.0 Content Gateway 8.1.0 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 8.10 distribution packages
Enabled syslog compression for all VMs
SwarmTelemetry: added “Listing Cache v1.1” dashboard and “Swarm Search v8” with support for node roles.
OEM-116 allow NTP client access default netmask
OEM-118 disable Swap on ES
OEM-119 Address CVE-2008-5161 for all VMS
OEM-120 missing cron updatemotd gateway vm
OEM-121 sync terminal history across sessions
OEM-122 disable ntp collector on node_exporter systemd service
OEM-123 add Postfix to SwarmTelemetry with ipv6 disabled
OEM-124 grafana-server service appears to hang
OEM-125 Rotate and fix grafana logging

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-16.1.4-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.

Important

Swarm 16.1.4 - ESXi-8.0 - can be deployed on ESxi 7.x. See Announcing End of Support Life for vSphere 6.5.x and vSphere 6.7.x for end-of-life (EOL) statement regarding VMware ESX 6.x.
This is an installation-only bundle, so don’t use this bundle for upgrades.
A field engineer needs to modify /usr/lib/system.d/system/elasticsearch_exporter.service if the ES node IP is different.

Info

All VMs have dual virtual network cards, one for the public client network and another for the Swarm Storage Network.
For SwarmSearch 1, the public-facing network card is not connected for security reasons.
All access credentials use the default password “datacore”.

Disk-to-VM Mapping

The following is a sample mapping example of OVF with the associated disks:

OVF	Associated Disks

OVF	Associated Disks
SwarmClusterServices.ovf	datacore-swarm-16.1.4-ESX-RL8-disk1.vmdk
SwarmClusterServices.ovf	datacore-swarm-16.1.4-ESX-RL8-disk2.vmdk
SwarmContentGateway.ovf	datacore-swarm-16.1.4-ESX-RL8-disk5.vmdk
SwarmSearch1.ovf	datacore-swarm-16.1.4-ESX-RL8-disk3.vmdk
SwarmSearch1.ovf	datacore-swarm-16.1.4-ESX-RL8-disk4.vmdk
SwarmTelemetry.ovf	datacore-swarm-16.1.4-ESX-RL8-disk6.vmdk
SwarmTelemetry.ovf	datacore-swarm-16.1.4-ESX-RL8-disk7.vmdk

VM Template Overview

The following is a sample example of the VM template:

VM	Hostname	vCPU	RAM	System Disk	Data Disk

VM	Hostname	vCPU	RAM	System Disk	Data Disk
SwarmClusterServices	swarmclusterservices	2	4 GB	50 GB	100 GB
SwarmContentGateway	swarmcontentgateway	4	8 GB	50 GB	--
SwarmSearch	swarmsearch1	4	24 GB	30 GB	0.45 TB
SwarmTelemetry	swarmtelemetry	1	2GB	20 GB	100 GB

Software Versions

The following software versions are required for the Swarm 16.1 VMware bundle:

VM	Application	Version	Vendor

VM	Application	Version	Vendor
All	Rocky Linux	8.10	https://rockylinux.org/download
SCS	Swarm Cluster Services	1.7.2	DataCore Software, Inc
GW	Content Gateway Web UI	7.10.0-2	DataCore Software, Inc
GW	Content Gateway	8.1.0	DataCore Software, Inc
SCS	Swarm	16.1.4	DataCore Software, Inc
GW	Storage Management UI	3.5.0-2	DataCore Software, Inc
GW	Haproxy	1.8.27	HAProxy - The Reliable, High Perf. TCP/HTTP Load Balancer
ES	Elasticsearch	7.17.14	Elasticsearch
TM	Prometheus	2.45.0	Prometheus - Monitoring system & time series database
TM	AlertManager	0.25.0	Prometheus - Monitoring system & time series database
GW	Node Exporter	1.6.0	Prometheus - Monitoring system & time series database
TM	Grafana	10.4.1	Grafana: The open observability platform \| Grafana Labs
TM	Elasticsearch Exporter	15.0	Prometheus - Monitoring system & time series database

References

Abbreviation	Full Form

Abbreviation	Full Form
SCS	Swarm Cluster Services
GW	Swarm Content Gateway
ES	SwarmSearch
TM	SwarmTelemetry

Swarm Documentation

Swarm 16.1.0 Update 1 VMware Bundle Rocky Linux 8 Package