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<section id="minimum-system-requirements">
  <title>Minimum System Requirements</title>
  <section id="management-server-system-requirements">
    <title>Management Server, Database, and Storage System Requirements</title>
    <para> The machines that will run the Management Server and MySQL database must meet the
      following requirements. The same machines can also be used to provide primary and secondary
      storage, such as via localdisk or NFS. The Management Server may be placed on a virtual
      machine. </para>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>Operating system:</para>
        <itemizedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>Preferred: CentOS/RHEL 6.3+ or Ubuntu 12.04(.1)</para>
          </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>64-bit x86 CPU (more cores results in better performance)</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>4 GB of memory</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>250 GB of local disk (more results in better capability; 500 GB recommended)</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>At least 1 NIC</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Statically allocated IP address</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Fully qualified domain name as returned by the hostname command</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </section>
  <section id="hypervisor-system-requirements">
    <title>Host/Hypervisor System Requirements</title>
    <para>The host is where the cloud services run in the form of guest virtual machines. Each host
      is one machine that meets the following requirements:</para>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>Must support HVM (Intel-VT or AMD-V enabled).</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>64-bit x86 CPU (more cores results in better performance)</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Hardware virtualization support required</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>4 GB of memory</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>36 GB of local disk</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>At least 1 NIC</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <note>
          <para>If DHCP is used for hosts, ensure that no conflict occurs between DHCP server used
            for these hosts and the DHCP router created by &PRODUCT;.</para>
        </note>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Latest hotfixes applied to hypervisor software</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>When you deploy &PRODUCT;, the hypervisor host must not have any VMs already
          running</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>All hosts within a cluster must be homogeneous. The CPUs must be of the same type,
          count, and feature flags.</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
    <para>Hosts have additional requirements depending on the hypervisor. See the requirements
      listed at the top of the Installation section for your chosen hypervisor:</para>
    <warning>
      <para>Be sure you fulfill the additional hypervisor requirements and installation steps
        provided in this Guide. Hypervisor hosts must be properly prepared to work with CloudStack.
        For example, the requirements for XenServer are listed under Citrix XenServer
        Installation.</para>
    </warning>
    <para></para>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para><xref linkend="hypervisor-kvm-requirements"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para><xref linkend="system-requirements-xenserver-hosts"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para><xref linkend="hyperv-requirements"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para><xref linkend="vmware-requirements"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <!--            <listitem><para><xref linkend="ovm-requirements"/></para></listitem> -->
      <listitem>
        <para><xref linkend="lxc-requirements"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </section>
</section>