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 17.0.0, 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 the necessary DataCore Swarm software and dependencies. The software packages are pre-installed and unconfigured. All the VM’s have been built with Rocky Linux 8.10 OS. For more information, see Swarm 17.0 VMware Bundle Rocky Linux 8 Package.

What’s New in the Bundle?

• Swarm Storage 17.0 Swarm Storage 17.0 Release

• Content Gateway 8.2.1 Content Gateway 8.2.1 Release

• Swarm Cluster Services (SCS) 1.7.3 Swarm Cluster Services 1.7.3 Release Notes

• Elasticsearch 8.15.1

• All VMs upgraded to latest Rocky Linux 8.10 distribution packages 

• All copyright info adjusted to 2025 

• TELE-26 changed integrity verified from stat to historical time series chart 

• OEM-127 added tcpdump, traceroute, mtr, bind-utils, nmap, ngrep, qrencode-libs google-authenticate

• OEM-128 add listing cache thin provisioned disk added

• OEM-129 SwarmSearch is now running Elasticsearch partition in its own Volume Group

• OEM-93 log4j.properties reset to rpm supplied default 

• TELE-27 generated v17 Dashboards 

  • Added Swarm Network Dashboard v2.0 [hidden] 

  • Added Swarm Health Processor v2.1 [hidden] 

  • Added Cache Listing v2.0 with XMD [hidden] 

• OEM-139 upgraded prometheus/grafana stack

• SwarmTelemetry: upgraded to prometheus 3.1.0

• SwarmTelemetry: upgraded to alertmanager 0.28.0

• SwarmTelemetry: upgraded to grafana 11.4.0 [version locked]

• SwarmTelemetry: fixed broken motd update crond definition

Bundle Contents

• datacore-swarm-17.0-ESX-RL8.ovf – VMware vAPP OVF for vCenter 7.0 and above

• datacore-swarm-17.0-ESX-RL8-file*.nvram – VMware ESXi 8.0 and higher nvram files only needed for vAPP ovf import

• SwarmSearch1.ovf – Elasticsearch 8.15.1 VM image

• SwarmContentGateway.ovf – Gateway 8.2.1 VM image (UIS + UIC)

• SwarmClusterServices.ovf – Swarm Cluster Services 1.7.3 VM Image

• SwarmTelemetry.ovf – Swarm Telemetry 17.0.0 VM Image

• datacore-swarm-17.0-ESX-RL8-disk*.vmdk – VM disk images associated with the various VM images