AMP Private Cloud virtual appliance Air-Gap Mode Requirements

[nikhilram]

We got the following spec from the Cusco TAC

Air Gap Mode

vSphere ESXi 5 or higher

• 8 CPUs
• 128 GB RAM
• 1 TB free disk space on the VMWare datastore
• RAID Type: RAID 10 (striped mirror)
• Number of RAID groups: 2
• Number of drives per RAID group: 8
• Total number of drives: 8 (SSD required)
• Drive capacity: 250 GB minimum
• Capacity of a single RAID group: 1000 GB

Can anyone confirm the Disk IO requirements, do we need the below IOPS ??

• Reads: 100,000 4K IOPS
• Writes: 90,000 4K IOPS

[E.L. Howard · Accepted solution]

Yes - these are also outlined in the deployment strategy guide for Private Cloud.

ELH

[nikhilram]

What are the Server or Storage hardware usually wed can use for getting such a huge IOPS requirements??