Cloud Management Platform Hardware requirements
Before you install Cloud Management Platform, ensure to meet the following requirements.
Hardware requirements
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Refer to the IBM Cloud Private minimum hardware requirements for a single node cluster and multi-node cluster. See Hardware requirements and recommendations section in IBM Cloud Private Knowledge Center.
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Cloud Management Platform services will consume worker node resources on IBM Cloud Private, depending on the size of the Cloud Management Platform deployment. Worker nodes on IBM Cloud Private must have more resources allocated in addition to the IBM Cloud Private minimum requirements allowing for larger workloads to be deployed.
For minimum hardware requirements of Cloud Management Platform
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In addition to the IBM Cloud Private hardware requirements, you must create persistent volumes in the IBM Cloud Private environment to store Cloud Management Platform database. For more information on how to create persistent volumes in IBM Cloud Private, see "Minimum storage requirements" section of IBM Cloud Private Hardware requirements and recommendations.
Persistent storage requirements for Cost and Asset Management:
Storage Type : nfs
Cloud Management Platform
| Persistent storage requirement | Size (GB) |
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| core-couchdb-pv0 | 20 GB |
Storage Type : GlusterFS
Cloud Management Platform
| Persistent storage requirement | Size (GB) |
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| core-couchdb-pv0 | 20 GB |
Note: For the procedure to create these persistent volumes in Cloud Management Platform , see Creating Cost and Asset Management persistent volumes.
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Regularly run backups for your CouchDB, NFS file systems, GlusterFS, or other supported storage. Also, follow the backup steps for IBM Cloud Private to recover the platform during any major failure.
Note: You must manage your own storage system.