Supported hypervisors
Pexip Infinity currently offers specific support for VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM and Xen hypervisors. Other hypervisors and orchestration layers, such as Citrix XenServer, may be used but are not officially supported by Pexip.
Note that suspending and resuming Virtual Machines that are running the Pexip Infinity Management Node or Conferencing Nodes is not supported.
The Pexip Infinity platform can also be deployed as a cloud service via Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform, with private, public or hybrid deployment options.
VMware vSphere ESXi
VMware versions
Version 24.3 of the Pexip Infinity platform supports VMware vSphere ESXi 5.x and 6.x, although we recommend ESXi 6.x.
You must have a suitable VMware environment already installed.
VMware editions
The Pexip Infinity platform will run on the free edition of vSphere Hypervisor. However, this edition has a number of limitations (limited support from VMware, no access to vCenter or vMotion, no access to VMware API). In particular, the lack of access to the VMware API means that all Conferencing Nodes will have to be deployed manually
The minimum edition of VMware that we recommend is the vSphere Standard edition. This does not have the limitations of the free edition. If you do not already use VMware in your enterprise, the vSphere Essentials Kit is a simple way to get started and will provide you with Standard edition licenses for 3 servers (with 2 CPUs each) plus a vCenter license.
The Enterprise Plus edition includes further additional features relevant to the Pexip Infinity platform that could be of benefit to larger deployments. These include Storage DRS and Distributed Switch.
For a comparison of the VMware editions, see http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere.html#compare.
Microsoft Hyper-V
Version 24.3 of Pexip Infinity supports Microsoft Hyper-V in the form of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 and later, or Windows Server 2012 and later.
KVM
For information on configuring a KVM environment specifically for use with Pexip Infinity, see Configuring KVM for Pexip Infinity.
Xen
Pexip Infinity requires Xen 4.2 and later. For information on configuring a Xen environment specifically for use with Pexip Infinity, see Configuring Xen for Pexip Infinity.
Other hypervisors and orchestration layers
Pexip Infinity Management Nodes and Conferencing Nodes support static IP addressing only. Therefore the hypervisor or orchestration layer must also support static IP addressing.
Cloud service providers
The Pexip Infinity platform can also be deployed as a cloud service via Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform, with private, public or hybrid deployment options.