.. _Planning Virtual Machine Configurations:

Planning Virtual Machine Configurations
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Even though |product_name| performs best on bare metal, it can also run inside virtual machines. However, in this case only storage services will be available and you will not be able to create the compute cluster. 

.. _Running on VMware:

Running on VMware
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To be able to run the storage services on VMware, make sure the following requirements are met:

- Minimum ESXi version: ESXi 6.7.0 (build 8169922)
- VM version: 14