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This section provides the requirements needed to deploy the vSMS in a VMware, a kernel-based virtual (KVM), or Microsoft Hyper-V environment.
The following are the minimum system requirements for the vSMS platform:
  • 300 GB virtual disk size. For a larger disk partition, this size can be dynamically increased. A size of 600 GB is recommended. The maximum supported size is 1800 GB.
  • 8 virtual CPUs
  • 2.27 GHz CPU speed
  • 32 GB memory
  • 2 virtual network adapters. Two virtual network adapters are required to match a physical SMS. One of the virtual network adapters is for management. The second one is required for High Availability out of band replication, even if replication is not in use. For High Availability clusters, both systems must have similar memory, CPU, and disk space.
Note
Note
An upgrade will fail on any system that has a drive that is smaller than 300 GB or less than 12 GB of RAM.

VMware vSphere environment

A supported VMware vSphere environment must already be set up before you can install and use the vSMS. The vSMS platform uses a VMware Open Virtualization Format (OVF) file to operate.
  • VMware vSphere Client version 7.0 or 8.0
  • VMware ESX/ESXi version 7.0 or 8.0 (only paid versions supported)
Note
Note
We recommend that you install all updates on your hypervisor hosts before deploying virtual devices in your ESXi environment.

KVM environment

A supported KVM environment must already be set up before you can install and use the vSMS. KVM deployment of the vSMS has been successfully tested using the following specifications:
  • RHEL version 6 (for three cores); libvirt version 0.10.2; QEMU version 0.12.0.
  • RHEL version 7 with the KVM hypervisor (for four cores); libvirt version 1.1.0; Quick Emulator (QEMU) version 1.5.3
The KVM environment must have the following tar packages installed:
  • qemu-kvm
  • virt-install
  • virt-viewer

Microsoft Hyper-V environment

The vSMS host for Windows Hyper-V configurations is version 10.0. This version is supported on the following Windows servers:
  • Windows Server 2022
  • Windows Server 2025