FireCloud Requirement

Build your cloud with commodity hardware

Recommended Minimum requirements

1 x Firecloud Enterprise Management Server
8GB RAM (16GB+ recommended)
Dual or Quad Core 2Ghz+
100GB Raid 1
2x Gig NIC
2 x Firecloud Compute Node (Firenode)
8GB+ RAM
Quad Core 2Ghz+
30GB HD (SSD recommended)
2 x Gig NIC (4 recommended)
1 x Data store
1TB block storage
iSCSI, AoE or Fiber – it can even be on a shared SAN
1 x Backup store (Optional)
2TB+ NAS

Building Your Cloud

With SparkCore FireCloud you get free advice and support to work out the best way to deploy clouds on your hardware. We can also help you spec your servers and SANs.

Network Configuration

For a schematic of an FireCloud network, see our network configuration page and deployment scenarios page, with diagrams illustrating public, private and other cloud set-ups with SparkCore FireCloud.