Native cloud deployment on Azure is currently not available for Exasol 8, but you can install Exasol as a Linux application on Azure VM instances. For more information, see Installation.

Native cloud deployment on GCP is currently not available for Exasol 8, but you can install Exasol as a Linux application on GCP VM instances.

Storage Requirements

This article describes general requirements and recommendations regarding storage in Exasol.

Storage requirements

Use at least 4 storage drives with minimum 250 MBps read/write capacity per drive.

Actual performance depends on the number of disks used as well as the speed of the individual disks.
OS and storage disks should have RAID 1 (or similar fault tolerance).
OS disks must have at least 150 GiB free disk space after installation .
Swap partition - use the size recommended by the OS vendor.

Supported storage types/technologies

Sparse file devices hosted on a filesystem like ext4 or XFS (NFS is not supported)
Block devices (local storage SAS, SSD, NVMe, virtual disks, or remote storage iSCSI/SAN)
LVM2
LUKS

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Storage Requirements