Each appliance in your ScienceLogic configuration can be run as a virtual machine.
You can deploy Skylar One appliances on hypervisors from the following vendors:
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VMware
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Microsoft
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Nutanix
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Citrix
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RedHat
For details about the hypervisor versions that are supported and the requirements and specifications for each Skylar One appliance, see the System Requirements page on the ScienceLogic Support Site.
Use the following menu options to navigate the Skylar One user interface:
- To view a pop-out list of menu options, click the menu icon (
). - To view a page containing all of the menu options, click the Advanced menu icon (
).
Caveats
Microsoft Hyper-V Linux Integration software cannot be installed on any Skylar One appliances.
ScienceLogic databases have a very high bandwidth of memory changes under normal operations, often in excess of 10Gb/sec. This rate of memory change limits the feasibility of VM live migration methods (such as vMotion) for Skylar One appliances because on moderately large databases, the rate of memory change is too high to be synchronized between hosts over a 10Gb/sec ethernet link.
The following requirements apply to all virtualized appliances:
- Fixed storage is required. Dynamically-expanding storage is not supported.
- Memory over-commit is not supported. In the case of VMware, this means that 100% of memory must be reserved for all ScienceLogic appliances.
- Running Skylar One on a virtualization server that is close to capacity will result in unexpected behavior.