Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 System Requirements: Minimal Install

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System Requirements

  • 1 Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization Manager server
  • 1 hypervisor host

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager

Minimum

  • Dual-core server with 4GB RAM, 25GB free disk space, and 1Gbps network interface

Recommended

  • Dual-socket/quad-core server with 16GB RAM, 50GB free disk space on multiple disk spindles, and 1GB network interface. The breakdown of the server requirements is:
    • Manager: 3GB memory, 3GB local disk space, and 1Gbps network controller bandwidth
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 6 operating system: 1GB memory and 5GB local disk space
    • Local ISO domain: 15GB disk space
  • 1 client for connecting to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager:
    • Microsoft Windows (7, XP, 2003, or 2008) with Internet Explorer 7 and above
    • Microsoft .NET Framework 4

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Host

Minimum

  • Dual-core server, 10GB RAM, 10GB storage, and 1GB network interface

Recommended

  • Dual-socket server, 16GB RAM, 50GB storage, and two 1GB network interfaces. The breakdown of the server requirements is:
    • Host: AMD-V-enabled or Intel VT-enabled, AMD64 or Intel 64 extensions, minimum 512MB RAM, and minimum 750MB storage
    • VMs running on the host: 8GB RAM to run 4 VMs
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor 6.2-3.0 installation ISO
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