Setting up the linux environment

We recommend to use VMs for NMS Prime. This will make life easier in the future, because:

Pros while using VMs:

• full backup possibility (snapshots)
• easy updates and backwards compatibility
• hardware independence
• more flexible while moving towards HA-architecture (High Availability) and Clustering

We use qemu KVM architecture with the virt-manager GUI.

Pros while using KVM:

• completely free / open source
• native linux kernel support
• large community
• fast, stable and worldwide tested

Recommended file format is *.qcow2. This file format will only allocate as much space as required on the real host.