The appliance specification describes the platforms used for the BMC Atrium Discovery appliance. It provides a brief introduction to the features of the appliance, and the basic tasks that need to be performed to start the appliance for the first time on a customer site. It also provides specifications for each of the appliance models.

Virtual Appliance

From version 8.0 the BMC Atrium Discovery solution is supplied as a virtual appliance. Apart from installation, all interaction with a virtual machine based appliance is identical to the hardware appliance.

See Virtual Appliance for more information.

Physical Appliance

The BMC Atrium Discovery solution was previously supplied as a physical appliance with all software pre-installed, including the BMC Atrium Discovery application.

See Appliance Hardware Platforms for more information.

Both hardware and software are covered by your maintenance and support contracts. Under the terms of your contract you must not make any modifications to the appliance hardware and software. Contact Customer Support for further details.

This section is intended as a brief overview and is not comprehensive. It contains information taken from the documentation supplied with the appliance hardware. You are strongly advised to read the documentation to fully familiarize yourself with the appliance hardware and its operation.

The Appliance Specification contains the following sections:

• Virtual Appliance describes the BMC Atrium Discovery Virtual Appliance.
• Virtual Appliance Delivery provides the specification for virtual machines.
• Appliance Hardware Platforms describes the hardware models used for the appliance.
• Disk IO Performance Guidelines provides guidance on minimum I/O system performance requirements.
• BMC Atrium Discovery Production Specification provides the specifications for production machines.
• BMC Atrium Discovery POC Specification provides the specification for proof of concept machines.
• HP ProLiant DL380 G6 provides the physical specification of HP ProLiant DL385 G6 Servers.
• HP ProLiant DL380 G5 provides the physical specification of HP ProLiant DL385 G5 Servers.
• HP ProLiant DL385 G2 provides the physical specification of HP ProLiant DL385 G2 Servers.
• Sun Fire X4100 provides the physical specification of Sun Fire X4100 Servers.
• Sun Fire V40z provides the physical specification of Sun Fire V40z Servers.
• Sun Fire V20z provides the physical specification of Sun Fire V20z Servers.
• External Slave Platform Minimum Specification describes the minimum specification for external slaves.

Links to the relevant support sites are provided below:

• HP ProLiant DL380 G6
• HP ProLiant DL380 G5
• HP ProLiant DL385 G2
• VMware virtual machine
• Sun Fire X4100
• Sun Fire V20z and V40z