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title: "Virtual Machine Formats for Graphiant Service"
slug: "virtual-machine-formats-for-graphiant-service-1"
description: "Review supported virtual machine formats and deployment requirements for Graphiant Virtual Edge services."
updated: 2026-05-07T19:33:30Z
published: 2026-05-07T19:33:30Z
canonical: "docs.graphiant.com/virtual-machine-formats-for-graphiant-service-1"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Virtual Machine Formats for Graphiant Service

## VMware ESXi

- Version: Must support VMware ESXi 6.5 and higher
- The Graphiant service has VMware tools (or open-vm-tools) packaged in order to support VMXNET3.

## VirtIO Support

- Must support VirtIO. This becomes necessary when running on certain flavors of KVM.

## SR-IOV Support

- Must support SR-IOV. This will be particularly important for high performance environments especially when targeting deployment of Graphiant solution on Cisco CSP and Cisco ENCS platforms.

## OVF/OVA

- The Graphiant image must be made available in the open standard format

## OVF Template

- The Graphiant service image is accompanied with a template that provides guidance on small/medium/large instance deployments tied to specific CPU & Memory requirements along with Disk.

## Default Interface Count

The image is deployed with a set of default interfaces:

- One in a WAN VRF
- One in the management VRF
- One in a LAN VRF

> [!NOTE]
> Note:
> 
> An upper bound of 8 interfaces is supported by default.