AC2000 Virtualisation Virtual Environment Support

Features that make a difference: Today more and more businesses are using Installation Prerequisites virtualisation to reduce capital expenditure for installing AC2000 on • Enables AC2000 to operate within a on hardware and upgrades, drive down IT VMware or VirtualBox virtual environment costs and to increase operational efficiency, a Virtual Machine VM agility and the flexibility of the their systems. • Cost Reduction through hardware Architecture – X86-64 consolidation AC2000 can be supported within a Guest OS – Other 2.6.x Linux (64-bit) • Virtualise both AC2000 Servers (CDC’s) managed virtual machine environment and RTC’s (Ethernet Controllers) (e.g. VMware or VirtualBox). The AC2000 Minimum memory Server and RTC’s (Ethernet Controllers) Small systems < 256 doors 1 – 2GB • Savings in power, space and cooling can be virtualised providing cost reductions Large systems > 256 doors 4 – 8GB through hardware consolidation and • Tailor provisioning of processing power to savings in power, space, and cooling the applications that need it, when they Minimum CPU cores need it One (Maximum number of cores Server virtualization is a technology supported by AC2000 is four) • Optimize storage resources for data for partitioning one physical server retention and archiving into multiple virtual servers. Each of OS Disk type these virtual servers can run its own Any • Improve availability and business continuity operating system and applications, and perform as if it is an individual server. • De-risks upgrade process - preserve Minimum Disk Size current server as a fall-back Small systems < 256 doors 20 – 50GB The main benefits of server virtualization Large systems > 256 doors 100 – 200GB • Speeds up upgrade process - stage new are cost reductions by decreasing pc/ VM servers in advance server hardware, provision for disaster Number of NICs recovery, and the ability to allocate system One: Standalone system • Hardware independence - possible to run resources purely through configuration Two: if using CEM Failover older OS and software versions on the VM rather than physical upgrades.

As it is easier to create a virtual machine Requirements • AC2000 v8.0 and higher than to set up a physical machine in • AC2000 Airport v8.0 and higher the enterprise, AC2000 Servers and • Managed VMware Virtual Environment RTC’s can be set up very quickly, and Tested with VMware ESXi 6.5 brought online and offline as required.

Please note that Failover/High availability can be provided by the virtual environment. Alternatively AC2000 Failover can be used.