I plan to install a pair of VA-MM-50 which according to the minimum specs each one needs to have 3vCPU, 6GB RAM and 6GB disk. (8.4 Virtual Appliance Guide, page 10, table 4)
But I am confused about the disk.
When I deploy the OVA into VMware, there are 2 disks automatically created (4GB + 6GB). How does this fit in with the minimum spec of 6GB disk mentioned above? Do I really need 2 disks? What do they each do?
Based on Table 4, I already advised my customer that they only need 6GB of disk per each vMM so if I need to make a correction I'd really like the accurate information please.
EDIT: I've just checked the vMC and found the similar result. the smallest MC devices in Table 5 supposedly need only 6GB disk but the OVF deployment creates a 4GB + 6GB disk again.
The deployment guide has different information about disks for different hypervisors., sometimes requiring a 2nd disk and sometimes not, and also discrepancy in size?
Chapter 4
Installing ArubaOS Using vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 6.5, this chapter mentions nothing about disk, but the result is as I have described above
Chapter 5
Installing ArubaOS ISO Using vSphere Hypervisor, this chapter instructs to manually create a 4GB disk and a 6GB disk
Chapter 6
Installing ArubaOS OVA Using vCenter, as per Chapter 4, no info given
Chapter 7
Installing ArubaOS ISO Using vCenter, nothing specific in the text but the screenshots given show a 16GB plus a 32GB disk being created
Chapter 8
Installing ArubaOS Using KVM Hypervisor, this chapter instructs the creation of a 4GB disk plus an 8GB disk with a note (should be greater than half the size of RAM configured"
Chapter 9
Installing ArubaOS Using Windows Hyper-V, this chapter doesn't mention the first disk but instructs the creation of a 2nd disk which is at least the size of the RAM