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Setting up the linux environment

Setting up the linux environment

Dec 07, 2018



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.