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Installation
The following sections provide information on system requirements and step-by-step instructions for installing the Software Appliance.
The Software Appliance supports the leading virtualization platforms, including VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, and KVM-based hypervisors.
System Requirements
Before you install the Software Appliance, ensure that the system requirements are met.
The following hardware specifications are recommended for the virtual machine.
RAM: 16 GB
Disk space:
1st Disk: (firmware disk): 60GB
2nd Disk: (data disk): minimum size 10GB, expandable to maximum 2TB
CPU: 8 vCPU cores1 NIC
Software Appliance Installation
Prerequisites
The following lists prerequisites for the installation instructions:
A Software Appliance package (downloaded from your Keyfactor download area).
Mozilla Firefox installed on the administrator workstation.
Create Virtual Machine
For step-by-step instructions on how to create a virtual machine, see the following sections:
It is not possible to reduce the hard drive size of an existing installation.
Once the partition size has been extended, it cannot be reduced. This limitation is not imposed by the Keyfactor EJBCA/SignServer Software Appliance, but by the underlying hypervisors (e.g. VMware ESXi, Hyper-V, KVM). Most hypervisors do not support shrinking virtual hard drives once they have been extended.
Any attempt to do so could result in data loss or systems that can no longer be booted!
The only supported alternative is to redeploy the Software Appliance with a smaller virtual hard disk.
Deploy a Virtual Machine on ESXi
Deploy a Virtual Machine on Hyper-V
Deploy a Virtual Machine on KVM based Hypervisors