AppsAnywhere Server Specifications

Supported Hypervisors

The following hypervisors are supported, and compatible VM images are available:

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine (Azure VHD Generation 1 and Generation 2 - Generation 2 is recommended)
AWS EC2 (OVA)
Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016 or later (VHDK)
VMware vSphere 7.x or later (OVA)

Other hypervisors and image formats, including conversion to other image formats, are not officially supported and are done at a customer’s own risk.

If you would like to request support for a hypervisor or image format, contact AppsAnywhere support or use our feedback forum.

Specification

A hypervisor will need to be configured to provide these resources, unless importing the VMware OVA template; in which case the specification will be configured automatically.

Standard

4 vCPUs
8 GB RAM
32 GB HDD (thin provisioned)
Gigabit Ethernet adapter (1Gbps connection is ideal)
IPv4 address (IPv6 is not supported)

Azure

D-Series v4 or later (D4s v4, 4vCPU, 16GB RAM)
F-Series v2 or later (F4s v2, 4vCPU, 8GB RAM)
Custom managed OS disk (SSD) (500 IOPS per disk) – 32GB

Server Components

All components listed are what is stock as part of the image. Updates are installed during deployment and automatically based on the configured update schedule.

Rocky Linux: v8.10
Kernel: v4.18.0-553.40.1
Apache: 2.4.37-65.module+el8.10.0+1938+3b7755d4.3
PHP: v7.1-1.el8.remi
PHP: v8.2-5.el8.remi
Microsoft SQL ODBC Driver: v17.10.6.1-1
OpenSSL: v1.1.1k-14.el8_10

Additional Components

Azure VHD

WALinuxAgent v2.7.0.6-8.el8_8

Azure VHDs are created based on instructions provided by Microsoft on Create and upload a CentOS-based Linux VHD.
Microsoft documentation detailing how to upload a custom VHD are available on Upload a VHD to Azure.

AWS (OVA)

Amazon SSM Agent v3.3.1611.0-1

This build is configured by default with the following enabled/configured:

Networking and DHCP enabled by default.
Unrestricted SSH access.
The setup user account is allowed SSH access.
Amazon SSM Agent installed and enabled.

Due to the above it is advisable that a security group is linked to the EC2 instance that restricts access via SSH/22 to specific IP addresses/ranges.

The required steps to import this OVA image within AWS can be found on Importing a VM as an image using VM Import/Export.

Any other format or conversion of the AppsAnywhere appliance is not officially supported.

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