Provider appliance

Key features

The regify Provider Software Appliance can get described with the following key attributes:

1. Software appliance, based on a special CentOS 6 version, one of the most stable Linux distributions (comes as an ISO image).
2. Supports Replication (Master-Slave, Cross-Master) for full redundancy and high availability.
3. Offers easy SSL certificate usage.
4. Fully supports all Sub-Provider features (handles multiple IP addresses).
5. Optionally included database (MySQL and MariaDB alternative).
6. Included Apache Webserver with PHP environment.
7. Included MTA (Mail Tranfer Agent) which is also usable as relay with a SmartHost.
8. Automatic time-synchronisation using NTP.
9. Fully supporting NAGIOS monitoring.
10. Supports external loadbalancers and SSL offloading.
11. Installs in less than 10 minutes.
12. Allows easy and automatic updates.
13. Does not need any andvanced Linux knowledge.

Real hardware or virtualized

The regify Provider Software Appliance can get installed on real hardware (given it is supported by CentOS6) or virtual machines.

Virtualization compatibility:

• VMWare ESX(i) servers
• VMWare Workstation
• Citrix XEN Server V6
  • Only supporting Hardware-assisted virtualization (HVM) mode
  • No Paravirtualization (PV) support

It is not possible to install on Microsoft Hyper-V because of missing network adapter support. We have some success reports for the most recent version of Hyper-V. But currently it is not officially supportet.

We do not promise the compatibility to any virtualization technique available on the market. There is a good chance that it runs fine on many virtualization solutions, but there is no guarantee on that.

Hardware requirements

You can find the hardware requirements at the Hardware page.